{"id":1007555,"date":"2026-05-11T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007555"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:44:24","slug":"hc-protects-mp-shashi-tharoors-personality-rights-directs-removal-of-deepfake-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/hc-protects-mp-shashi-tharoors-personality-rights-directs-removal-of-deepfake-video\/","title":{"rendered":"HC protects MP Shashi Tharoor&#8217;s personality rights, directs removal of deepfake video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s diplomacy. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Mini Pushkarna, in an interim order passed on Tharoor&#8217;s lawsuit, also restrained the misappropriation of the Thiruvananthapuram MP&#8217;s name, image, distinct voice, &#8220;signature oratorical cadence and manner of speaking&#8221;, &#8220;highly refined vocabulary&#8221; and other facets of his persona to create and publish any deepfakes, voice-cloned audio, morphed videos, etc. for any commercial, political, or malicious purpose across any physical or virtual medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s diplomacy. Justice Mini Pushkarna, in an interim order passed on Tharoor&#8217;s lawsuit, also restrained the misappropriation of the Thiruvananthapuram MP&#8217;s name, image, distinct voice, &#8220;signature oratorical cadence and manner of speaking&#8221;, &#8220;highly refined vocabulary&#8221; and other facets of his persona to create and publish any deepfakes, voice-cloned audio, morphed videos, etc. for any commercial, political, or malicious purpose across any physical or virtual medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007582,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007555\/revisions\/1007582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}