Hikmah Educational Trust, Mangaluru: New office-bearers elected
Mangaluru: Hikmah Educational Trust (HET) was formed in the year 2016 to impart education to the society and to establish, run modern educational institutions with values for the benefit of the people.
Accordingly, at present, the Trust is running a Montessori nursery and a primary school in Attavar by name The Shepherds’ International Academy (SIA). The Trust is planning to start higher primary classes, a high school and a pre-university college in the near future on a new campus in Mangaluru.
As the term of previous office bearers is completed, the Board of Trustees conducted a meeting on 12th September, 2022 to select the new office-bearers of the trust through an election process. The polling officer conducted the election to select the chairman of the Trust for the new term.
Three nominations were received for the position of Chairman. All the members of the Board of Trustees cast their votes in favour of Ar. Mohammed Nissar, and elected him as the chairman for the new term of the years, from 2022 to 2025. Ar. Mohammed Nissar being on the chair, the Board of Trustees elected Mohammed Rizwan as secretary and Shajid A K as the treasurer for the new term from 2022 to 2025.
The Board of Trustees complemented the new office-bearers and assured their full cooperation in managing the educational institutions with quality standards.
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Delhi HC protects actor R Madhavan's personality rights, orders takedown of objectionable content
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court on Monday protected the personality rights of Bollywood actor R Madhavan by restraining several websites and online platforms from illegally using his name or images for commercial gain without his consent.
The high court also restrained several defendants from using the personality traits of Madhavan through the use of artificial intelligence and deepfake technology and ordered the takedown of certain obscene content uploaded on the Internet. Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora said she will pass a detailed interim order in the matter.
"Issue injunction qua sale of merchandise qua defendants 1, 3 and 4 of the list and qua defendant 2 on the ground of obscenity," the court said.
Senior advocate Swathi Sukumar, representing the actor, contended that one of the defendants has created a fake movie trailer of Kesari 3 which says this movie is about to come and posted deepfake and AI-generated content in the capacity of Madhavan.
She said the actor had already approached the social media platforms against the infringing material before filing the suit.
This was submitted before the court as the judge recently took a view that individuals seeking urgent takedown of objectionable online content must first approach the social media platforms before directly seeking a judicial injunction.
The court was hearing a plea by Madhavan seeking to protect his personality rights and restrain online platforms from illegally using his name, images and AI-generated inappropriate and sexually explicit content.
The suit relates to misappropriation of various aspects of Madhavan's personality, including his name, image, likeness, persona and voice by the defendants for their commercial gains, without consent.
The right to publicity, popularly known as personality rights, is the right to protect, control and profit from one's image, name or likeness.
Besides Madhavan, the court also heard similar personality rights suits filed by Telugu actor NTR Junior and Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, and said it would pass detailed interim orders.
Recently, Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, her husband Abhishek Bachchan and her mother-in-law Jaya Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Ajay Devgn, filmmaker Karan Johar, singer Kumar Sanu, Telugu actor Akkineni Nagarjuna, 'Art of Living' founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, journalist Sudhir Chaudhary and podcaster Raj Shamani also approached the high court seeking protection of their personality and publicity rights. The court granted them interim relief.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan and former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar have also approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection of their personality rights.
