Скачать или смотреть Let's IPsa Loquitur: 01 The Personality Rights Debacle - Whose Face Value Is It Anyway?

Tanishka Goswami hosts the 1st episode in our Let's IPsa Loquitur series, bringing in Adyasha Samal and Akshat Agrawal, to discuss some on-going developments that surely everyone in the IP world has taken note of - the surge of "Personality Rights" cases. What does it mean for law, policy or society? In this 45 min episode, they touch upon various angles and facets of this question, as well as how it intersects with cultural meaning making, deep-fakes, free speech and other related issues.

00:00- Introduction
03:18- Personality rights and their relevance
07:18- Relevance of IP law in personality rights
11:24- Deepfakes and AI
19:59- Impact of MeitY proposed amendments to IT Act
26:21- Implications on free speech
32:39- Implications on parody, satire etc.
36:55- Way forward
45:13- Conclusion

About our Speakers:
Adyasha is a researcher at the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna, Austria. Previously, she worked at AZB and partners in the areas of IP and data protection law. Adyasha has been associated with SpicyIP for several years now and was a student fellow in 2020-21. She holds a BA LLB honours from Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur and a B.C.L. from the University of Oxford.

Akshat is the founder and counsel at AASA Law Chambers. He possesses comprehensive experience in IP laws, having worked as a senior associate at Sai Krishna and Associates, as a Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellow, as a counsel at the Chambers of Senior Advocate Jayant Mehta and as a judicial law clerk to Justice Prathiba Singh. He holds a BA LLB honours from Jindal Global Law School and an LL.M. in IP Law from the University of California, Berkeley.

All views expressed here by the speakers are in their personal capacity, and in general are to be considered as curious engagement with the subject at hand.
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List of Referenced Blogposts and Related Readings from the Episode:
1. https://spicyip.com/2017/08/the-supre...
rights-to-the-constitutional-plane.html
2. https://spicyip.com/2025/06/delhi-hcs...
courts-are-getting-wrong-about-personality-rights.html
3. https://spicyip.com/2025/10/unpacking...
regulation-and-practicality.html
4. https://www.meity.gov.in/documents/ac...
technologyintermediary-guidelines-and-digital-media-ethics-code-rules-2021-it-rules-2021-
IjN4QjMtQWa?pageTitle=Amendments-to-the-Information-Technology-(Intermediary-
Guidelines-andDigital-Media-Ethics-Code)-Rules,-2021-(IT-Rules,-2021)
5. https://spicyip.com/2023/05/world-of-...
allows-use-of-celebrity-information-available-in-public-domain.html
6. https://spicyip.com/2024/05/after-ani...
recent-dhc-order-from-the-perspective-of-personality-rights-right-to-livelihood.html
7. https://spicyip.com/2013/09/cold-news...
8. https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/vi...
article=2959&context=faculty_scholarship
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1. https://spicyip.com/2025/09/whats-in-...
2. https://spicyip.com/2025/03/part-i-pe...
dhcs-karan-johar-v-india-pride-advisory-order.html
3. https://spicyip.com/2025/03/part-ii-p...
dhcs-karan-johar-v-india-pride-advisory-order.html
4. https://spicyip.com/2024/11/part-i-th...
verdict-yet-the-show-must-go-on.html
5. https://spicyip.com/2024/11/part-ii-t...
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6. https://spicyip.com/2024/12/delhi-hig...
the-rajat-sharma-and-mohan-babu-orders.html
7. https://spicyip.com/2024/06/parody-un...
trademark-law-to-curb-satire.html
8. https://spicyip.com/2024/09/voice-clo...
intelligence-and-post-humous-personality-rights.html
9. https://spicyip.com/2024/08/synthetic...
personality-rights-part-ii.html
10. https://spicyip.com/2024/08/synthetic...
personality-rights-part-i.html
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Credits:
Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor
Sonisha Srinivasan: Researcher, Editor
Tanishka Goswami: Host, Researcher
Anjali Tripathi: Thumbnail Art