Twitter INC has been ordered by a Bengaluru court to temporarily block the Twitter accounts of Indian National Congress and Bharat Jodo over alleged copyright infringement. The order was passed after the M/s MRT Music, the company that owns the music for popular south Indian movie KGF, knocked the door of the court. The company alleged that the two handles illegally used the sound records of the film KGF chapter-2, by affixing their logo on it, LiveLaw reported.
Lathakumari M, Additional City Civil Judge of Bengaluru court, delivered the ex-parte order on the suit filed by the plaintiff. The respondents were Indian National Congress, Supriya Shrinate, Rahul Gandhi, Twitter Inc and Ashok Kumar.
On perusing the records submitted by the plaintiff, the court said: “I have carefully considered all documents produced along with the plaint also the CD produced by plaintiff by playing the same in court system. Plaintiff has specifically produced a CD showing the side by side file i.e., original version of his copyrighted work with that of the illegally synchronized version.”
“These prima facie materials available before this court at this stage establishes that if same is encouraged plaintiff who is in the business of acquiring cinematography films, songs, music albums etc., will be put to irreparable injury and further same leads to encouraging the piracy at large,” the court further added.
“Considering the same and its impact on the business of the plaintiff, defendants 1 to 3 and 5, their managers, employees, family agents and all other acting for, claiming under or through them are restrained by an order of exparte ad-interim injunction from unauthorizedly and illegally using the copyrighted work owned by the plaintiff and illegally synchronizing, from distributing pirated copies of the same and also restrained from illegal uploading, storing, posting, communicating to the public, digitally transmitting the work held by the plaintiff as per document No.2 and 4 till next date,” the court held, as per LiveLaw.
“Considering the provisions of Sec.79 of IT Act, 4th defendant is directed to remove and take down the links from its platform https://twitter.com/INCIndia/status/15798 38167217188865Ps-20&t=TBueI J 7NrK40kNu4ZzCsA, https://twitter.com/INCIndia/status/15829 56022112526338Ps=20&t+23a2zW8HP N C9VHEAEMR0Q and https://twitter.com/ INCIndia/status/1581604321996611586P t=8dksS4cPfpypWf4_ mxw9hg&s=08 till further orders and further block the social media https://twitter.com./INCIndia., https://twitter.com/Bharatjodo till next date,” the court said.
“This court is convinced that the object of granting an injunction would be defeated by delay if commissioner is not appointed to make local inspection,” the court added. ‘
The matter will be next heard on November 21.
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