Anil Kapoor breaks silence on lawsuit to protect his personality rights in Delhi HC
PTC News Desk: Actor Anil Kapoor has moved Delhi High Court seeking protection of his name, image, voice and personality attributes.
In an interim decision, the court barred several companies from infringing on the 'Beta' actor's personality rights.
In a statement provided by his team, Anil Kapoor stated, “I had filed a suit in Delhi high court through my lawyer Ameet Naik for protection of my personality rights including my name, image, likeness, voice and other attributes of my personality against any misuse including on digital media. The suit has various instances of misuse of my attributes.”
"The court has after a detailed hearing granted an order acknowledging my personality rights and restraining all offenders from misusing my personality attributes including my name, image, likeness, voice etc. without my permission in any manner including through artificial intelligence, deep fakes, GIFs. etc.," he said.
Anil stated that his "intention is not to interfere with anyone's freedom of expression or to penalise anyone."
"My personality is my life's work and I've worked hard to build it. With this lawsuit, I'm seeking protection of my personality rights to prevent it's misuse in any way, particularly in the current scenario with rapid changes in technology and tools like artificial intelligence that are easily misused to the detriment of the owners of such rights."
The actor sought a permanent injunction to prevent people in general and social media channels, websites, and mobile apps from using his name, voice, signature, image, or any other attribute that is exclusively identifiable with him for commercial and/or personal gain without his consent.
Anil Kapoor also sought protection from the misuse of his personality rights through the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, deepfakes, GIFs, and so on.
Prior to Anil Kapoor, iconic actor Amitabh Bachchan tried to defend his personal rights.
- With inputs from agencies
