New Delhi: After clips of the upcoming Shah Rukh Khan-starrer film ‘Jawan’ bought leaked, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed social media platforms, ‘shady’ web sites, cable TV retailers, direct-to-home providers, and numerous different platforms to take away the leaked clips and cease their circulation as effectively.
Red Chillies Entertainment Private Limited, a manufacturing home owned by Shah Rukh Khan and his spouse Gauri Khan, had filed a lawsuit within the Delhi High Court on this depend.
A Delhi High Court bench headed by Justice C. Hari Shankar on Tuesday directed social media websites like YouTube, Google, Twitter, and Reddit to take motion to halt the circulation of the film’s copyrighted content material and ordered numerous web service suppliers to ban entry to web sites that have been displaying or making the film’s footage obtainable for viewing or downloading.
Two movie-related video snippets, in line with the petitioner, have been leaked on social media, one displaying Shah Rukh Khan in a combat sequence, and the second displaying a dance sequence.
“It is the plaintiff’s (Red Chillies) case that these leaked video clips are nothing but clear violation of copyright/intellectual property rights of the plaintiff which are are causing damage and loss to the plaintiff. The leaked video clips together give away the look of the actors in the said film, as well as the music, both of which are typically disclosed at strategic points in time as part of the carefully-curated marketing strategy of a film,” the court docket was instructed.
The lawsuit additionally claimed that particular photos from the movie’s set, which have been shot behind closed doorways in a studio, had been leaked by the defendants.
An apprehension was expressed that the rogue social media handles would additional copy, reproduce and distribute the copyright-protected supplies and different proprietary data on numerous platforms, the plea mentioned.
“The plaintiff reasonably apprehends that such publication and unauthorised circulation of the leaked video clips will jeopardise the promotion and exploitation rights of the plaintiff in the said film, and as and when the said film is released in theatres, similar acts of piracy relating to the entire film would also commence and intermediaries/websites as described would again be utilised to illegally copy, record, download, reproduce, transmit and communicate the said copyright protected work to the general public,” the plea mentioned.
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