A First Information Report (FIR) was registered in Mumbai against Google, its CEO Sundar Pichai and seven others over a complaint filed by a film patron under the brand act, Mumbai police said on Wednesday. Film director and patron Suneel Darshan had approached the court seeking enrollment of a case against Google and its top officers over alleged brand violation, he said. Darshan contended that notoriety uploaded the film Ek Hasina Thi Ek Diwana Tha on YouTube without its directors’ authorization, said a police functionary.
As per the police functionary, the case was registered at the MIDC Police Station in suburban Andheri on the orders of a justice’s court on Tuesday evening. The hunt machine mammoth said in its response that it has a set medium which brand possessors can use to cover their content on platforms similar as YouTube.
The persons named in the complaint included Google LLC, YouTube LLC, Google India ltd, Pichai and others. The offence was registered under sections 51, 63 and 69 of the Copyright Act, 1957 which relate to violation of brand When communicated for response, a Google prophet in India said the company relies on brand possessors to notify it of unauthorised uploads and offers them” rights operation tools, similar as YouTube’s Content ID system that gives rights holders an automated way to identify, block, promote, and indeed make plutocrat from uploads of their content. When a brand holder notifies us of a videotape that infringes their brand, we remove the content instantly in agreement with the law, and terminate the accounts of druggies with multiple brand strikes,”the prophet added.