1st Edition

Deepfakes and the Law Challenges, Responses, and Critique

Edited By Thomas D.C. Bennett, Rebecca Moosavian Copyright 2027
366 Pages
by Routledge

This collection offers the first sustained, multidisciplinary legal analysis of deepfakes and their far‑reaching consequences. Deepfake technology has moved with disorienting speed from fringe curiosity to a global social, political and legal problem. Once the preserve of Hollywood studios, the ability to fabricate hyper‑realistic images, audio and video is now available to anyone with a... Read more

Introduction

Part One: Deepfakes, Imagery, and Privacy

 

1. Triangulating Deepfakes as a Privacy Problem

Thomas D.C. Bennett

 2. Saving ‘Souls’? How Misuse of Private Information Could Protect Targets of Intrusive Deepfakes

Rebecca Moosavian

 3. Deepfake Pornography: Legal and Human Rights Responses
Aislinn O’Connell, Jill Marshall and Rachel Maguire

 4. The Need for Constitutional Protection of Personal Identifiers in the Age of Deepfakes

Anna Hovsepyan

 5. Taking Down Deepfakes Through Copyright Law: These are not the droits you are looking for

Ogulcan Ekiz

 

Part Two: Deepfakes, Disinformation and Truth

 

6. The Impact of Deepfakes on Trust in User-Generated Evidence
Anne Hausknecht

 7. Regulating Deepfake Harms: Lessons from False Advertising Law

Jyothsna Gurumurthy

 8. Deepfakes, Democracy, and Disinformation: Neo-Republican Unfreedom

Jesse Michael Bachir

 9. Deepfakes and Democratic Vulnerabilities: Safeguarding Electoral Integrity in India

Subhajit Basu and Garima Saxena

 

Part Three: Deepfakes and Death

 

10. The Challenges of Digital Immortality and Deepfakes

Conor McGahon

 11. Voice Cloning of the Deceased: The Challenges of Digital Immortality and Deepfakes

Başak Bak

 

Biography

Thomas D.C. Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London. 

Rebecca Moosavian is an Associate Professor in Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds.