Delhi HC grants interim protection to Kumar Sanu’s | Indian Movie News
The Delhi High Court has granted singer Kumar Sanu interim protection over his persona rights, restraining the unauthorized use of his title, likeness, image, and voice for industrial functions.
Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, presiding over the case Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee vs Jammable Limited & Ors., noticed that prima facie, the celebrated singer’s persona traits are protectable parts of his id. The interim injunction will stay in impact until the next listening to, scheduled for March 30, 2026.
“Prima facie, the Plaintiff’s personality traits and/or parts thereof, including Plaintiff’s name Kumar Sanu, voice, image, photograph or likeness and other attributes are protectable elements of the Plaintiff’s personality rights. The Plaintiff is entitled to protect itself against morphed and distorted content which is demeaning,” the Court acknowledged in its order.
The Court also drew reference to earlier rulings regarding the persona rights of Bollywood figures such as Anil Kapoor, Karan Johar, and Jackie Shroff.
As half of its interim instructions, the Court ordered Amazon and Flipkart to take away listings that violate Kumar Sanu’s persona rights and restrained two e-commerce sellers from promoting any merchandise that includes his title, picture, or likeness without authorization.
Google and Meta had been directed to take down infringing content recognized in Sanu’s petition, as properly as any recent materials flagged by the singer in the future. Additionally, both platforms had been ordered to present Basic Subscriber Information (BSI) of the nameless accounts accountable for sharing such content within three weeks.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had been also instructed to droop URLs, web sites, and cellular purposes discovered to be misusing Sanu’s id and take related motion against any new cases introduced to their consideration.
Allegations of AI Misuse and Unauthorized Content
The Court’s resolution got here in response to a Rs 2 crores swimsuit filed by the playback legend against a number of AI-based platforms, online intermediaries, digital entities, and unidentified people accused of creating pretend, morphed, and impersonated content in his title.
According to Sanu, the defendants misused his persona to promote merchandise, impersonated him on social media, and even developed a cellular software on the Google Play Store utilizing his image and voice. The swimsuit alleged that AI-generated sound recordings imitating his voice and GIFs caricaturing him had brought on reputational harm and subjected him to “unsavoury humour” online.
Represented by Advocate Sana Raees Khan, Sanu argued that such acts infringed his proper to privateness, goodwill, and popularity, in addition to violating the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957. The swimsuit emphasised that his stage names — “Kumar Sanu,” “Sanu Da,” and the title “The Melody King of Bollywood” — get pleasure from twin protection under persona/publicity rights and trademark law.
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Following the court’s ruling, Kumar Sanu expressed gratitude on social media, acknowledging his legal workforce and the judiciary for recognizing artists’ rights. He wrote, “I am deeply grateful to my advocate, Sana Raees Khan, for her powerful and masterful arguments that led to this significant victory in court. My heartfelt thanks to the Hon’ble Delhi High Court for recognizing and upholding my Personality Rights.”
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