A local court in Jaipur on Tuesday continued to hear arguments for the second day in succession in a case of violation of the Copyright Act by makers of Akshay Kumar-starrer “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha”.
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The Copyright case:
- “The arguments continued for the whole day today and tomorrow again it will continue in Jaipur Metropolitan Court,”
- G.D. Bansal, advocate for Jaipur-based filmmaker Pratik Sharma, said on Tuesday.
- A copyright infringement case was brought up by Sharma against Plan C Studios, an alliance between Reliance Entertainment and Friday Filmworks helmed by Neeraj Pandey and Shital Bhatia, and Viacom18 on July 7 in a Jaipur Metropolitan Court.
- Sharma alleged that the makers have lifted the punchline and the subject from his film “Gutrun Gutar Gun”.
- S.S. Hora, counsel of Viacom 18 said: “We argued on four major points. First, there can’t be copyright of an idea or a concept.
- Secondly, what he (Sharma) claims is already in public domain, a real life fact in India it is not his creation.
- “Third, he being in the film industry, he knew that the film would come out on this concept July 2, 2015
- and he sat over all this while, and fourth — various stake holders in the film are not before the court,
- he knows all of them but that he has not made them party is a defect. So, no relief should be given to the plaintiff.”
- The Jaipur Metropolitan Court on July 26 asked the makers of “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” to
- file a reply or enter into arguments in the case of copyright violation on July 31.
- The court had earlier issued a notice returnable on July 22, but as a strike by the clerical staff was going on,
- the court gave the respondents July 26 as a new date for filing their reply.
- “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha”, directed by Shree Narayan Singh, deals with the need of sanitisation in India
- and is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign. It features Bhumi Pednekar with Akshay.