Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Tuesday, 24 Mar 2026 - 18:00

Unauthorised Deepfakes and Digital Replicas: Time for Reform?

A phone screen showing facial recognition scanning a man’s face in a photo.

Three categories of harms have materialised from unauthorised deepfakes; disinformation, demeaning content and displacing creative workers. As this technology continues to develop, without any safeguards in place, it will exacerbate the inequalities of society. This lecture discusses the regulation of unauthorised deepfakes and explores the introduction of personality rights into laws across the UK as part of a wider solution including educational, cultural and technological intervention.

Dr Hayleigh Bosher

Dr Hayleigh Bosher

Dr Hayleigh Bosher is creative industries law and policy expert, advising industry and policymakers. She is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel, University...

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