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Copyright Infringement

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IC814- The Kandahar Hijack: ANI sues Netflix and makers of the controversial web series promoting ISI propaganda for copyright and trademark infringement

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2024

In its plea, ANI has stated that the makers of the IC814 series have used ANI footages that show clips of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistan’s General Parvez Musharraf, and terrorist Masood Azhar, and others without any license.

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Copyright infringement case filed against AR Rahman over PS-2 song ‘Veera Raja Veera’, Delhi HC orders him to submit raw recording of the song

OpIndia Staff - 20 October, 2023

A Copyright violation case has been filed against music composer AR Rahman over the song ‘Veera Raja Veera’ from the movie Ponniyin Selvan Part-2

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‘Humans of New York’ founder calls out ‘Humans of Bombay’ for suing ‘People of India’ over copyright infringement: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2023

In court for Humans of Bombay, advocate Abhishek Malhotra stated that the defendant had launched a comparable portal/service with identical content called People of India.

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Karnataka High Court declines to quash FIR against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh & Supriya Shrinate in copyright infringement case

OpIndia Staff - 28 June, 2023

The court observation states that the petitioner appeared to have tampered with source code, which would amount to infringement. Copyright of complainant is taken for granted and therefore prima facie all this requires investigation.