Madras High Court restrains airing pirated content of '3'

Madras High Court restrains airing pirated content of '3'

Madras High Court

MUMBAI: The Madras High Court has restrained telecommunication services, Internet content providers and cable TV service providers from airing content from Dhanush‘s 3 that released yesterday. This follows a petition filed by Rk Productions Private Limited.

In his order, Justice K B K Vasuki restricted telecasting songs or video clippings through different mediums, including CD, VCD, DVD, cable TV, DTH, Internet services, multimedia messaging services, pen drives, hard drives, tapes and conditional access system.

It also permitted the applicant to publish the injunction order in Tamil and English newspapers so as to make all concerned aware of it.

According to the production house, the service providers had not entered into any license agreement with it in respect of communication of the cinematograph film or any part, including photographs, musical notations, any musical recordings, dialogues, lyrics, story or screenplay.

The Court posted the matter for further hearing on 18 April.