Information Technology Law

Deepfakes and the Law: Challenges, Responses, and Critique

Edited by Thomas D.C. Bennett · Rebecca Moosavian
Coming Soon Routledge Available September 2026

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9781032964539
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Routledge
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September 2026
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 smartphone. Its most prevalent and devastating use remains the creation of non‑consensual sexually explicit content targeting women. Yet deepfakes also fuel political disinformation, destabilise democratic processes, enable fraud and identity theft, and contribute to a broader post‑truth climate in which the authenticity of all digital evidence becomes contestable. In this landscape, one of the most urgent tasks is simply to begin the right conversations about how law and society should respond. Across three sections, an international array of scholars examine how synthetic media challenges foundational assumptions about privacy, image rights, evidential truth and democratic integrity. These essays explore deepfakes’ profound impact on the individual dignity of both the living and the dead, their capacity to generate epistemic uncertainty, and the structural difficulties they pose for courts, regulators and lawmakers. Bringing together theoretical, doctrinal and comparative insights, the book illuminates a fragmented regulatory landscape and articulates both the pressing need for more coherent, principled governance of synthetic media, and some of the difficulties that will necessarily be encountered by those designing regulatory measures.

This is a timely and vital volume for scholars, jurists and legislators concerned with the future of truth, autonomy and accountability in an increasingly synthetic world.

Table of Contents

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
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