Delhi High Court draws a line in Janhvi Kapoor personality-rights case
The court declined a blanket ban on fan pages and asked for thousands of disputed links to be organised by the kind of alleged misuse involved.
Janhvi Kapoor's personality-rights case has put a difficult online boundary into focus: protecting a public figure from impersonation, deepfakes and commercial misuse without automatically treating every fan page or critical post as unlawful.
The Delhi High Court declined to impose a blanket ban across the roughly 4,000 links presented by Kapoor's counsel. Instead, the court asked for the URLs to be categorised so that obscene material, AI-generated abuse, impersonation and unauthorised commercial use could be considered separately from criticism and ordinary fan activity.
The distinction matters beyond one actor. As performers increasingly seek control over the use of their names, voices and likenesses, courts are being asked to balance personal protection with copyright ownership and free expression. The reported hearing suggests that targeted remedies may be preferred over sweeping takedowns when many different kinds of content are grouped together.