Mumbai: A FIR has been listed on a court order on Google, the CEO of Sundar Pichai and five other employees from the company in the case of copyright violations alleged on January 25.
Police MIDC said the case was registered to upload the film – “Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha” on YouTube without a contract or approval of the manufacturer and film director.
The complainant has said he followed up with Google and YouTube officials since 2017 but there was no action taken to remove the film.
Steel Darshan’s producer has accused that he suffered a loss in Crores when the film was flowed on a digital platform with Lakh viewers.
Mumbai Police spokesman DCP Sanjay Latkar said the case was registered based on a court order under the criminal procedure code 156 (3).
Darshan said he filed a complaint in front of the court because Google did not comply with notice.
MIDC police are now planning to publish calls for Sundar Pichai (Google CEO), Gautam Anand (head YouTube), Joe Gries (Grievance Officer), and three Google Namrata Rajkumar employees, Agarwal Pawan, and Chaitanya Prabhu whose names are inside.
Toi has FIR.
A Google spokesman in India told the PTI news agency that the company depends on the copyright owner to notify it without permission and offering them “rights management tools, such as the YouTube content system that gives the right holder to identify, promote, promote, promote , and even make money from their content overload.
“” When the copyright holder tells us about videos that violate their copyrights, we immediately delete the content in accordance with the law, and stop the user account with several copyright strikes, “said the spokesman .
Metropolitan Head of Metropolitan Head Andheri (Court 22) in the order on January 20 said the complainant had recorded the illegal use of their films on YouTube.
The court found the case of the Prima Facie of copyright infringement.
Cases of copyright violations: Mumbai police files against Sundar Pichai
