HC to pass order on Abhishek's publicity, personality rights plea
New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday said it would pass an order on a plea filed by Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan seeking to protect his personality and publicity rights, and restrain entities from commercially exploiting his name, image and voice without consent.
Taking on record the note submitted by Bachchan's counsel against defendant entities, justice Tejas Karia said the court would direct the takedown of URLs infringing upon the actor's personality rights.
The development came a day after the court said it would pass an order on a similar plea filed by actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who is married to Abhishek Bachchan, seeking to protect her personality rights and to restrain online platforms from illegally using her name, images and AI-generated vulgar content.
Abhishek in his suit has alleged that various entities have been infringing his publicity and personality rights by using his name, voice and video for illegal commercial purposes, "clandestinely" and "surreptitiously", without a clear disclosure of their names. htc...
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