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 in search of safety of his persona 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 identify, picture, voice or any of his traits with out his consent.

“The misuse of his identify, picture and voice, particularly by the cell utility builders, and other people conducting lottery by illegally associating with KBC, e-book publishers, T-shirt distributors and numerous different companies, has prompted Mr Amitabh Bachchan to strategy the Excessive Court docket, in search of a restraining order in opposition to using his persona 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 identify as web-domain names akin 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 celeb.

The court docket additional famous that it couldn’t critically be disputed that the plaintiff is a really well-known persona and is aggrieved by the utilization of his identify, picture voice and so on with out his consent.

“I’m of the opinion that the plaintiff has been capable of make out prima facie case in his favour. The defendants seem like utilizing movie star 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 said that there’s an infringement of the Plaintiff’s persona via numerous manners like digital means, prompt messaging apps, bodily means and so on.

The digital means embody a number of web sites and cell apps which were discovered misappropriating the plaintiff’s pictures and/or different traits, to create reputation amongst the general public and to entice members of the general public to obtain such cell apps.

The moment messaging apps embody a number of unscrupulous events which were discovered utilizing Bachchan’s {photograph} alongside together with his identify, 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 embody the instances the place dishonest merchants bodily affix the actor’s photos and posters on their locations of enterprise, 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 earnings.