Overview
- Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed an interim order restraining various defendants from using Jaya Bachchan’s images and personality traits without consent.
- No interim relief was granted against the use of her images on movie posters, with the court noting that those entities must be heard and that copyright may vest with film owners.
- The court directed blocking orders for offending websites and asked that websites and domain name registrars be added as parties, with summons to issue upon filing an amended memo of parties.
- Bachchan was given two days to cure clerical errors and file an amended plaint, following earlier directions to serve notices on Facebook, Amazon and eBay and to involve counsel for the Union of India.
- Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi appeared for Bachchan, Google’s counsel was present, and the petition cites morphed images, impersonation and allegedly defamatory YouTube videos, with the case listed next for April 16.