If it is indeed a copyright claim, it is rather paradoxical that the Tamil producer very conveniently forgot that he had copied the same theme from Memento, a Hollywood movie. Thus, the company claimed, the Hindi film was in violation of their contract.”Ĭan any of our readers more familiar with this case enlighten us on these intricacies? Mumbai firm KBC Pictures in its complaint said Murugadoss had signed an agreement with it in 2004 for re-making the hit Tamil film in Hindi. Murugadoss to file an affidavit Friday clearing his stand. Karnik of the Bombay High Court said the film can be released as scheduled but also asked director A.R. Chandrasekaran, the producer of the original Tamil film of the same name, filed a suit alleging that the producers of the Hindi remake had “fabricated documents to claim ownership over the remake rights”.Įarlier in the day, Justice S.B. Shivakumar of the same court had Tuesday stayed the Hindi film’s release after A. Are these related suits (the Mumbai and Chennai ones) or are they separate? Is the Mumbai suit a copyright infringement claim or just one for breach of contract? Sample these paragraphs from this news item: The claims in both these suits are not entirely clear to me. He comments on a recent Bollywood movie, Ghajini that appears to be raking in the moolah, and more noteably, has been in the news in relation to a copyright infringement claim against it before both the Madras and the Mumbai High Courts. We bring you a guest post from Nikhil Krishnamurthy, a leading Indian copyright lawyer and someone who’s already blogged with us earlier.
0 kommentar(er)
