The Madras High Court today restrained 14 intermediaries such as Google India, You Tube and BSNL from in any manner infringing the copyright of Mani Ratnam-produced 'O Kaadhal Kanmani' under the banner of Madras Talkies, a firm in which he and his wife are partners.
Justice K Ravichandra Baabu, before whom the civil suit filed by Mani Rathnam came up, granted interim injunction to all 14 ntermediaries from copying/duplicating the movie and making them available in various medium by internet, CD's and DVDs, Bluray drives, VCD's Multi Media Messaging Services, Conditional Access Systems, including intermediaries and unknown persons such as Ashok Kumar to block all URL (Unique Resource Locator) Carrying any image of the feature film.
Madras Talkies is a cine production firm in which Mani Ratnam and his wife Suhasini Maniratnam are partners.
The firm has produced several feature films like 'Iruvar,' 'Nerrukku Ne' and some other tele serials. 'O Kaadhal Kanmani was released on April 17.
Mani Ratnam contended that persons such as Ashok Kumar, who have a propensity to pirate original versions of the film and distribute them worldwide, would infringe the movie by copying it.
Such infringements can be checked only by blocking URL which is an address that points the resource from which the internet is transmitting information. By doing so, piracy can be prevented, he said.
