Block Congress Twitter Account, Says Court, Copyright Violations

Bengaluru:

A Bengaluru court docket has ordered the non permanent blocking of the Congress’s Twitter deal with after a music agency filed a copyright case in opposition to the celebration for taking part in songs from the film KGF-2 on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, led by celebration MP Rahul Gandhi.

M Naveen Kumar, who manages MRT music, filed the criticism in opposition to three Congress leaders together with Mr Gandhi for allegedly utilizing music from the superhit Kannada movie KGF-2, which violated copyright legal guidelines, in the course of the Bharat Jodo (unite India) yatra that travelled throughout Karnataka final month earlier than transferring to neighbouring Telangana.

The court docket additionally ordered non permanent blocking of the Bharat Jodo Yatra marketing campaign’s Twitter deal with.

The music firm’s supervisor alleged the Bharat Jodo Yatra marketing campaign movies have songs from KGF-2.

The Congress tweeted it’s not conscious of the court docket proceedings and hasn’t acquired any copy of the order. “We’ve got learn on social media about an hostile order from a Bengaluru court docket in opposition to INC and BJY SM handles. We have been neither made conscious of nor current at court docket proceedings. No copy of the order has been obtained. We’re pursuing all of the authorized cures at our disposal,” the Congress celebration tweeted, referring to the Bharat Jodo Yatra, or BJY, social media deal with.

We’ve got learn on social media about an hostile order from a Bengaluru court docket in opposition to INC & BJY SM handles.

We have been neither made conscious of nor current at court docket proceedings. No copy of the order has been obtained.

We’re pursuing all of the authorized cures at our disposal.

— Congress (@INCIndia) November 7, 2022

In its order, the court docket mentioned the music agency confirmed a CD through which the unique copyrighted model was in contrast with the “illegally synchronised” model.

The court docket mentioned the fabric out there reveals the music agency could be “put to irreparable harm” and such actions can encourage piracy.

In a primary data report, or FIR, filed with the police in Bengaluru’s Yashwanthpur, the music firm mentioned Congress chief Jairam Ramesh tweeted two yatra movies that used fashionable songs from KGF-2 with out permission.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra – the Congress’s marketing campaign to put the groundwork for its 2024 nationwide election battle – has to this point lined six states, specifically Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra.