Man vs. Wild Fame Bear Grylls Summoned By The Delhi HC Over Copyright Infringement

In response to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by an Indian author and producer, Arrmann Shharma over the present ‘Get Out Alive With Bear Grylls,’ the Delhi Excessive Courtroom issued summons to the British adventurer amongst others.
Warner Brothers Discovery, Nationwide Geography, and over-the-top (OTT) service Hotstar had been additionally despatched summons by Justice Amit Bansal.
In the meantime, the court docket referred the events to mediation after a request by Bear Grylls’ counsel.
The matter of Bear Grylls has been listed earlier than the Delhi Excessive Courtroom Mediation Centre for January 17, 2023, and earlier than the court docket on February 22.
Shharma moved the Excessive Courtroom alleging that Grylls’ present violated his authentic copyright creation, “Aakhri Dum Takk” (Until the Final Breath).
Shharma, who’s a scriptwriter and tv/movie producer, conceptualised and scripted the fact present in 2009, whereas Grylls’ present began in 2013.
Shharma had pitched it to Discovery, however the channel mentioned that the script didn’t meet its then programming and stock wants.
Furthermore, he alleged that Bear Grylls was working with Discovery on the time and later resigned, after which he produced the allegedly infringing present with one other channel named NBC “by citing it as his authentic format/present developed with Defendant No.2 (a producer named Tom Shelly).”
Shharma’s counsel informed the court docket: “Nevertheless, shockingly, in March 2022, the Plaintiff, by means of certainly one of his shut associates, got here to know that his copyright within the aforesaid authentic literary work was being infringed by the defendants and a present by the title of ‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’ is being produced by Defendant No. 1, 2 & 4 and is getting broadcasted on Disney+ Hotstar.”
“The areas talked about within the mentioned work are the identical as that of the mentioned infringing present. The entry, interval, climax and the idea of the present was based mostly upon and filmed within the method so narrated and formulated by the Plaintiff in his authentic copyrighted script which was submitted to Defendant No. 3 (Discovery), retaining defendant No. 1 ( Bear Grylls) because the programme’s host,” the plaintiff’s counsel mentioned.
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