MRT Music Files A Case Against Indian National Congress For Copyright Infringement – FilmyVoice

MRT Music, a Bangalore primarily based report label holding music rights of over 20,000+ Tracks in Kannada, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil and so forth. who has invested enormous sums of cash to amass basic previous music to one of many greatest films of the 12 months “KGF Chapter 2” in Hindi. Nonetheless the Indian Nationwide Congress has picked up the songs from this film and with out in search of MRT Music’s permission/license in any method in any way has used these songs to create their advertising movies of their very newest ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ marketing campaign that includes ‘Rahul Gandhi’ and now as a result of this infringement the Indian Nationwide Congress and its workplace bearers are liable underneath each civil and legal regulation for infringement of the copyright and are offences punishable underneath sections 425, 463, 464, 465, 471, 120B r/w Part 34 of the IPC and underneath Part 43 of the Info Know-how Act, 2000 and underneath Part 64. Copyrights Act, 1957.

Notice from the Music Label’s Counsel: Narasimhan Sampath, Companion & Pranav Kumar Mysore, Companion NSK Attorneys.
Our shopper MRT Music is without doubt one of the hottest, nicely reputed and revered regional music firms in India and is engaged within the enterprise of manufacturing and/or buying cinematograph movies, songs, music albums, movies and so forth., in numerous languages.

The current grievance has been filed in opposition to the Indian Nationwide Congress represented by its Common Secretary, Sri Jairam Ramesh, Smt. Supriya Shrinate, Sri Rahul Gandhi for infringement of copyrights owned by MRT Music.

Based mostly on the grievance submitted by MRT Music, the Police have proceeded to register a FIR in Crime No. 362/2022 for offences punishable underneath sections 403, 465 and 120B r/w Part 34 of the IPC and underneath Part 66 of the Info Know-how Act, 2000 and underneath Part 63 of the Copyrights Act, 1957 as in opposition to the Indian Nationwide Congress and the aforementioned people who’ve been arrayed as Accused no. 1 to three respectively.

The grievance primarily pertains to the illegal fraudulent and unlawful actions of the members of the steering committee in as far as violating the copyrights owned by MRT Music. The INC has created a video by unlawfully downloading and synchronising and broadcasting the songs pertaining to the film KGF – Chapter 2 in Hindi and portraying it to be owned by the INC. They’ve additionally used a emblem specifically ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ within the stated video and have broadcasted the identical on their official social media handles.

These illegal actions dedicated by a Nationwide Political Celebration displays their blatant disregard to the rule of regulation and the rights of personal people and entities whereas they’re conducting this ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ to hunt a possibility to control the county and body legislations for safeguarding the rights of the frequent man and companies.

MRT Music being a non-public entity engaged within the enterprise of manufacturing and/or buying cinematograph movies, songs, music albums, movies and so forth., in numerous languages, the one asset which it possesses is the copyrights owned by it.

MRT Music has filed the current grievance solely to implement its statutory rights and has no intentions to tarnish the picture of any political occasion.

Official assertion from the Music Label: M Naveen Kumar, Companion, MRT Music
Within the digital world right this moment, our Mental property guarded by the Copyright Act is pivotal to us and to our utter shock, we lately got here throughout movies posted by the Indian Nationwide Congress (INC) occasion whereby movies that includes Mr. Rahul Gandhi, Member, Steering Committee, Indian Nationwide Congress, with out in search of our permission/license has used them to additional their very own political agenda and for advertising and publicity. The infringed movies have been additionally broadcasted / posted by the INC on their official social handles and can be discovered on all social media platforms. An entity such because the INC has to set an instance for the Indian residents, nevertheless on this state of affairs, it itself is violating the legal guidelines of the land and infringing our copyright and mental property rights, which we have now acquired by means of enormous investments. This act on the a part of INC sends a very flawed sign to the Indian public and is totally opposite to the efforts of safeguarding our copyrights. This grave infringement shall be challenged by us to the fullest effort.