Delhi High Court To Pass Interim Order Protecting Actress Sonakshi Sinha's Personality Rights

The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will pass an interim order protecting the personality rights of bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha.

Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing the interim injunction plea filed by the actress in her suit seeking protection of her personality rights.

On Court's asking as to what were the infringing links, the counsel appearing for the actress referred to AI chatbots using the personality traits of Sinha unauthorizedly.

“Just give a soft copy (of infringing links). Granted,” the Court remarked.

The Court granted permission to the actress' counsel to file confidential documents in a sealed cover within two days.

The matter will now be heard on July 06.

Recently, the judge had passed a john doe order protecting the personality rights of Yoga guru and Patanjali Ayurved founder Ramdev.

For context, coordinate benches have passed orders protecting personality rights of singer Jubin Nautiyal, Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Pawan Kalyan, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, and actors Kajol Devgan, R Madhavan and NTR Junior. Similar suit has been filed by actor Salman Khan.

The coordinate benches have also passed orders protecting the personality rights of “The Art of Living” foundation founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Telugu actor Nagarjuna, Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and film producer Karan Johar.

Notably, the Court also recently protected the personality rights of journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, who had sought relief regarding the circulation of allegedly misleading and AI-generated videos against him on social media.

The Court also passed a john doe order protecting the personality rights of podcaster Raj Shamani, observing that he is a known face in India, especially in the field of content creation.

Title: SONAKSHI SINHA v. CHARACTER TECHNOLOGIES INC & Ors