Reporting to the police every day and furnishing two sureties are the terms of the conditional bail the Madras High Court has granted to a man accused of using AI videos of CM Vijay to collect money from the public. Chennai: The investigation is complete, the chargesheet is ready and the phone allegedly used has […]
Deepfakes, morphed and obscene material and fake quotes carrying the name and image of actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut must be taken down, the Delhi High Court has directed in an interim order in the Kangana Ranaut personality rights suit. The suit is yet to be decided. New Delhi: At the interim stage, the […]
Three Facebook pages, a defamation suit and a warning about AI: a Chandigarh court has ordered Facebook to block the pages over AI-generated videos allegedly targeting a Congress leader, observing that unchecked AI manipulation may harm democracy. Chandigarh: Until the next hearing, Facebook must immediately suspend or block public access to three pages, a Chandigarh […]
The Delhi High Court has granted police protection to a woman who alleges that Cockroach Janta Party leaders circulated a deepfake image of her alongside PM Narendra Modi, and has directed Meta to remove the objectionable content within 24 hours. Issuing notice to the four leaders, Justice Girish Kathpalia devised a mechanism to keep the woman’s address confidential while ensuring her protection. The allegations are untested and the leaders are presumed innocent.
The Delhi High Court has agreed to urgently hear a woman’s plea alleging that leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party morphed her photograph using AI face-swapping tools onto an explicit image and circulated it, including on pornographic websites, and seeking its takedown and police protection. The allegations are those of the petitioner and are untested; the accused are entitled to the presumption of innocence, and the woman’s identity is protected.
Actor Rakesh Bedi has moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights, the suit initially listed before Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani and then sent to the Intellectual Property Division bench. The suit, titled Rakesh Bedi v. John Doe, adds to a growing line of celebrity personality-rights cases in which courts have restrained the unauthorised commercial use of a public figure’s name, voice, image and likeness, including through AI and deepfakes.
Hearing actress Meenakshi Chaudhary’s suit to protect her personality rights, the Delhi High Court granted an ex parte interim order to take down obscene and sexually explicit content, but declined a blanket injunction, with Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani stressing that a plaintiff must show the unauthorised commercial monetisation of her personality traits. The Court, weighing similar suits by other public figures, is examining the larger question with the help of amici curiae.
Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka told the Delhi High Court they would take down their posts against senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia within 24 hours, as the Court issued summons in his defamation suit and directed X to place on record the subscriber details of the accounts. New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party […]