Bollywood legend and veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan filed a go well with in Delhi High Court looking for safety of his character rights, picture, voice or any of his traits with out his consent, following which the court docket handed an interim ex-parte injunction in his favour.
Eminent lawyer Harish Salve together with Ameet Naik and Pravin Anand, instructed by Anand and Naik, appeared for Bachchan within the High Court. The matter was heard earlier than Justice Navin Chawla.
Salve submitted that there’s a full misuse of Amitabh Bachchan‘s title, picture, voice or any of his traits with out his consent.
“The misuse of his name, image and voice, especially by the mobile application developers, and people conducting lottery by illegally associating with KBC, book publishers, T-shirt vendors and various other businesses, has prompted Mr Amitabh Bachchan to approach the High Court, seeking a restraining order against the use of his personality traits,” Salve mentioned.
The lawyer for Amitabh Bachchan additionally dropped at the discover of the Delhi High Court that alleged infringers have illegally registered Bachchan’s title as web-domain names equivalent to www.amitabhbachchan.com and www.amitabhbachchan.in.
Delhi High Court’s Justice Navin Chawla famous that the plaintiff/Amitabh Bachchan alleges a violation of his publicity proper as a star.
The court docket additional famous that it couldn’t critically be disputed that the plaintiff is a really well-known character and is aggrieved by the utilization of his title, picture voice and many others with out his consent.
“I am of the opinion that the plaintiff has been able to make out prima facie case in his favour. The defendants appear to be using celebrity status without his authorization, permission and consent,” the HC choose mentioned.
Justice Navin Chawla in his interim order handed an interim ex-parte injunction in favour of the Plaintiff/ Amitabh Bachchan and towards the defendants.
The plea said that there’s an infringement of the Plaintiff’s character by means of varied manners like digital means, on the spot messaging apps, bodily means and many others.
The digital means embrace a number of web sites and cellular apps which were discovered misappropriating the plaintiff’s images and/or different traits, to create reputation amongst the general public and to entice members of the general public to obtain such cellular apps.
The on the spot messaging apps embrace a number of unscrupulous events which were discovered utilizing Bachchan’s {photograph} alongside together with his title, and the illustration of a TV Show Kaun Banega Crorepati (which is related to Bachchan), to rip-off the general public into believing that Kaun Banega Crorepati is providing lottery prizes to the members of the general public.
The bodily means embrace the instances the place dishonest merchants bodily affix the actor’s pictures and posters on their locations of business, on billboards and even on merchandise that they have interaction within the manufacture and sale of, with the goal to unlawfully present a nexus/affiliation/sponsorship/affiliation with the plaintiff, in order to spice up their unlawful income.