Our blogger Tanishka Goswami hosts the 1st episode in our Let's IPsa Loquitur series, bringing in Adyasha Samal and Akshat Agrawal, to discuss some on-going developments that surely everyone in the IP world has taken note of - the surge of "Personality Rights" cases. While this is no doubt good for lawyers, what does it mean for law, policy or society? In this 45 min episode, they touch upon various angles and facets of this question, as well as how it intersects with cultural meaning making, deep-fakes, free speech and other related issues.

About our Speakers:

Adyasha is a researcher at the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna, Austria. Previously, she worked at AZB and partners in the areas of IP and data protection law. Adyasha has been associated with SpicyIP for several years now and was a student fellow in 2020-21.

Akshat is the founder and counsel at AASA Law Chambers. He possesses comprehensive experience in IP laws, having worked as a senior associate at Sai Krishna and Associates, as a Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellow, as a counsel at the Chambers of Senior Advocate Jayant Mehta and as a judicial law clerk to Justice Prathiba Singh. He holds a BA LLB honours from Jindal Global Law School and an LL.M. in IP Law from the University of California, Berkeley.

All views expressed here by the speakers are in their personal capacity, and in general are to be considered as curious engagement with the subject at hand. In more formal language: This podcast is intended solely for informational and academic discussion purposes and does not constitute legal advice or create any attorney-client relationship.

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List of Referenced Blogposts and Related Readings from the Episode: (The hyperlinks work even though they look broken!)

1. https://spicyip.com/2017/08/the-supreme-courts-privacy-judgment-elevates-personality-rights-to-the-constitutional-plane.html

2. https://spicyip.com/2025/06/delhi-hcs-orders-in-sadhguru-ankur-warikoo-cases-what-indian-courts-are-getting-wrong-about-personality-rights.html

3. https://spicyip.com/2025/10/unpacking-meitys-proposed-it-rules-amendments-between-regulation-and-practicality.html

4. https://www.meity.gov.in/documents/act-and-policies/amendments-to-the-information-technologyintermediary-guidelines-and-digital-media-ethics-code-rules-2021-it-rules-2021-IjN4QjMtQWa?pageTitle=Amendments-to-the-Information-Technology-(Intermediary-Guidelines-andDigital-Media-Ethics-Code)-Rules,-2021-(IT-Rules,-2021)

5. https://spicyip.com/2023/05/world-of-possibilities-single-judge-bench-of-delhi-high-court-allows-use-of-celebrity-information-available-in-public-domain.html

6. https://spicyip.com/2024/05/after-anil-kapoor-jackie-shroff-follows-suit-taking-a-look-at-the-recent-dhc-order-from-the-perspective-of-personality-rights-right-to-livelihood.html

7. https://spicyip.com/2013/09/cold-news-for-cricket-score-monopolies.html

8. https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2959&context=faculty_scholarship

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Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor

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Tanishka Goswami: Host, Researcher

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