A Bengaluru court ordered Twitter to temporarily restrict the accounts of the Congress party and the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Monday due to allegations that they violated MRT Music’s statutory copyright by using the film “KGF Chapter-2” sound files without authorization.
MRT Music filed the complaint on Friday, and under the guidelines of the Copyright Act, the Information Technology Act, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a FIR was filed at the Yeshwanthpur police station against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, and Supriya Shrinate.
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An allegation that the Congress party and the Bharat Jodo Yatra breached MRT Music’s statutory copyright by exploiting the film “KGF Chapter-2” sound tracks without permission led a Bengaluru court to compel Twitter to temporarily ban access to their respective accounts on Monday.
According to the terms of the Copyright Act, the Information Technology Act, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a FIR was filed at the Yeshwanthpur police station on behalf of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, and Supriya Shrinate on Friday after MRT Music submitted the complaint.
M Naveen Kumar, the manager of MRT Music, filed the complaint, stating that Ramesh had released two videos of the yatra on his official Twitter account in which well-known songs from the KGF-2 film were utilised without authorization.
“The aforementioned videos were created utilizing well-known sound recordings that the complainant owned and controlled. The aforementioned sound recordings are from the well-known international film “KGF Chapter 2” (Hindi version), according to Kumar, as reported by PTI.
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The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is being led by Rahul Gandhi, started on September 7 in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari and is scheduled to end on January 30 in Jammu. Five southern states—Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana—have been included in the march to date. In this journey, it will travel through a variety of states.
