Delhi HC protects personality rights of Sudhir Chaudhary

Delhi High Court on Friday restrained YouTube channels and other social media platforms from using the name, image, likeness and voice of senior journalist Sudhir Chaudhary.

Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora granted interim relief till the next date of hearing on Chaudhary’s petition, which alleged circulation of misleading and AI-generated videos against him on social media, besides attributing statements to him which were untrue.

“Injunction granted. We will give it for name Sudhir Chaudhary, image,



likeness and voice,” the judge said.

In addition to the links mentioned in his suit, Chaudhary said he will submit additional links related to deepfake videos on YouTube.

Chaudhary’s counsel submitted that the additional links, along with an affidavit of the plaintiff, will be e-filed by October 20, urging the court to extend the injunction to these additional links.

The judge also directed Chaudhary to serve a copy of the order to the YouTube channels he arrayed as parties in his petition.