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Actress Jaya Bachchan has been granted interim protection by the Delhi High Court, safeguarding her personality rights. The order restrains multiple entities from using her name, images, or likeness without authorisation, amid growing misuse on social media and online platforms.<\/p>\n
Court hears Jaya Bachchan’s plea<\/p>\n
As reported by ANI, a bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora was hearing Bachchan\u2019s plea, which highlighted that \u201cseveral social media accounts, YouTube channels and websites were misusing her name and persona for commercial gains.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi, appearing for Bachchan, informed the Court that AI\u2011generated videos, sexually explicit content, morphed images, and unauthorised merchandise were being used to exploit her identity.Sethi told the Court, \u201cWe don\u2019t even know the name of the party who is selling it.\u201d He added that the first defendant had published morphed images, the second defendant was selling merchandise using her picture, defendants four and five were selling infringing products, and defendant seven, a YouTube channel, had uploaded defamatory content.<\/p>\n
Court clarifies limits on movie posters<\/p>\n
During the hearing, Justice Arora noted that the use of Bachchan\u2019s images on movie posters could not be immediately restricted, as the copyright belongs to the film\u2019s owner. The judge observed, \u201cHow do you claim copyright in the movie posters? Copyright vests in whoever is the owner of the movie, not even hurting you. You don\u2019t even have any copyright. Let them be here. I\u2019m not persuaded. This is a poster. Let that party be here. We\u2019ll hear him out and we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m not convinced.\u201d<\/p>\n
Court directs blocking of infringing websites<\/p>\n
The Court ordered blocking actions against websites misusing Bachchan\u2019s persona and instructed that the websites and domain name registrars be made parties to the case. Justice Arora said, \u201cI will issue the injunction\u2026 Issue blocking orders with respect to the websites. I will issue directions that you will make websites and DNRs as parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Court allows filing amended plaint<\/p>\n
The Court also gave Bachchan liberty to file an amended plaint within two days, pointing out clerical and typographical errors in the original filing. The matter is now listed for further hearing on 16 April.<\/p>\n
Celebs who got protected earlier<\/p>\n
Jaya Bachchan\u2019s case forms part of a larger judicial trend to safeguard celebrity personality and publicity rights. Earlier, the Delhi High Court extended similar protection to actors Jackie Shroff<\/a>, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan<\/a>, Abhishek Bachchan<\/a>, Hrithik Roshan, Akkineni Nagarjuna, and filmmaker Karan Johar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Jaya Bachchan has been granted interim protection by the Delhi High Court, safeguarding her personality rights. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8343,8139,8140,46920,160888,64,63,160887,160886,160885,134,8160,160884,344],"class_list":["post-277321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-abhishek","tag-abhishek-bachchan","tag-aishwarya-rai","tag-aishwarya-rai-bachchan","tag-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-case","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blocking-infringing-websites","tag-celebrity-personality-rights","tag-delhi-high-court-ruling","tag-entertainment","tag-jackie-shroff","tag-jaya-bachchan-personality-rights","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}