{"id":35295,"date":"2026-11-03T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=35295"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:17:05","slug":"sharing-photos-without-consent-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/sharing-photos-without-consent-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Sharing of Photographs and Videos Without Consent: When Does It Constitute Copyright Infringement under Indian Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Social media platforms, algorithmic feeds and messaging apps have changed how photographs and videos are made, passed around and monetised. They have also created friction between property rights in creative work, the privacy and dignity of the people who appear in that work, and the rules that govern online platforms. Many people assume that putting up or forwarding someone else’s photograph or video without consent raises only criminal or privacy questions under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. This paper shows that the assumption is incomplete. Unauthorised online sharing of visual material can also amount to infringement under the Copyright Act, 1957.<\/p>

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