Amitabh Bachchan Wins Interim Order for Safety of His Character Rights

Bollywood legend and veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan filed a go well with in Delhi Excessive Court docket 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 Excessive Court docket. 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 title, picture and voice, particularly by the cell utility builders, and folks conducting lottery by illegally associating with KBC, guide publishers, T-shirt distributors and varied different companies, has prompted Mr Amitabh Bachchan to strategy the Excessive Court docket, looking for a restraining order in opposition to using his character traits,” Salve mentioned.

The lawyer for Amitabh Bachchan additionally delivered to the discover of the Delhi Excessive Court docket that alleged infringers have illegally registered Bachchan’s title as web-domain names similar to www.amitabhbachchan.com and www.amitabhbachchan.in.

Delhi Excessive Court docket’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’m of the opinion that the plaintiff has been in a position to make out prima facie case in his favour. The defendants look like utilizing superstar standing with out his authorization, permission and consent,” the HC decide mentioned.

Justice Navin Chawla in his interim order handed an interim ex-parte injunction in favour of the Plaintiff/ Amitabh Bachchan and in opposition to the defendants.

The plea acknowledged that there’s an infringement of the Plaintiff’s character by way of varied manners like digital means, prompt messaging apps, bodily means and many others.

The digital means embrace a number of web sites and cell apps which have been discovered misappropriating the plaintiff’s images and/or different traits, to create recognition amongst the general public and to entice members of the general public to obtain such cell apps.

The moment messaging apps embrace a number of unscrupulous events which have been discovered utilizing Bachchan’s {photograph} alongside together with his title, and the illustration of a TV Present 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 circumstances the place dishonest merchants bodily affix the actor’s photographs and posters on their locations of enterprise, on billboards and even on merchandise that they interact within the manufacture and sale of, with the purpose to unlawfully present a nexus/affiliation/sponsorship/affiliation with the plaintiff, in order to spice up their unlawful earnings.