India, Oct. 5 -- For years, the Delhi high court has played a central role in protecting the personality and publicity rights of celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Karan Johar and Nagarjuna, by granting broad interim injunctions against the unauthorised use of their names, images, voices and likenesses.

But the nature of this litigation has evolved, with the court now taking a more nuanced and narrow approach to such claims and examining what a personality rights suit can protect, particularly when the prayers in the petitions extend into areas such as defamation and satire.

This shift has come into focus in suits filed by actors Janhvi Kapoor and Vivek Oberoi. In July and September. Justice Anup Jai...