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The Delhi High Court has protected the property rights of podcaster and entrepreneur Raj Shamani, and directed removal of definite objectionable posts against him connected societal media.
“The plaintiff no. 1 (Shamani) is besides entitled to support himself against morphed and distorted contented which is defaming and demeaning to oregon patently mendacious arsenic it is bound to impact his estimation and goodwill,” Justice Manmeet P.S. Arora said successful an bid passed connected November 17 and made disposable connected Thursday (November 20, 2025).
The tribunal passed the interim bid portion proceeding Mr. Shamani’s plea seeking to restrain unauthorised usage of his image, persona, likeness and dependable without his consent, and AI-generated content.
The tribunal besides observed that Mr. Shamani’s rights successful the podcast “Figuring retired with Raj Shamani” are protected nether the Copyright Act, including the exclusive close to pass the works to the public, and that extortion is besides warranted against the unauthorised usage of the registered trademarks “FIGURING OUT”.
It further restrained them from utilizing the trademark “Figuring Out” and sharing, hosting oregon streaming Mr. Shamani’s copyright protected works successful his podcast and contented without authorisation.
It directed the societal media entities to artifact oregon region oregon instrumentality down the infringing contented generated done AI and deepfake.
Recently, Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, her hubby Abhishek Bachchan, his parent Jaya Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, filmmaker Karan Johar, vocalist Kumar Sanu, Telugu histrion Akkineni Nagarjuna, ‘Art of Living’ laminitis Ravi Shankar and writer Sudhir Chaudhary were granted extortion of their property and publicity rights by the court.
