By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court issued summons to British adventurer and tv presenter Bear Grylls and others on Friday on a swimsuit filed by an Indian script author claiming his copyright within the unique literary work was infringed by the present ‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’.
The swimsuit sought a everlasting injunction restraining the defendants from infringing upon the Indian author’s copyright and in addition sought damages.
Justice Amit Bansal issued summons to different defendants — NBC Universal Inc and its Vice President Tom Shelly, Warner brothers Discovery, OTT platform Hotstar, The Walt Disney and Net Geo India.
The excessive courtroom requested the defendants to file their written statements and listed the swimsuit for additional listening to on February 22, 2023.
‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’ is being produced by Grylls, NBC Universal Inc and its Vice President Tom Shelly, and is broadcast on Disney+ Hotstar, which is an OTT platform owned and run by Walt Disney.
Plaintiff Arrmann Shankar Shharma mentioned he’s engaged within the work of script writing, tv/ movie manufacturing, actuality TV manufacturing and path, and has been engaged on a number of tasks and creating numerous literary/ dramatic works in a number of types for the aim of actuality tv and media leisure.
The plaintiff, who filed the swimsuit by means of advocates Imran Ali and Manpreet Kaur, mentioned in 2009, he conceived and developed, within the type of a script, a actuality present for the tv titled ‘Aakhri Dum Takk-Till the Last Breath’ as per which a TV actuality programme of 7-8 episodes was to be produced by taking 20 folks to jungle to take up challenges to beat the pure obstacles in numerous excessive terrains and sail by means of for a couple of month with none assist.
He mentioned the copyright of the script, manufacturing format and idea was duly registered and granted to the plaintiff by the Registrar of Copyrights, Corporation Office, Government of India on January 10, 2011 and the work additionally bought registered with Film Writers Association, Mumbai.
He approached the excessive courtroom contending that Grylls’ present, which has been working since 2013, has infringed on his unique copyright work ‘Aakhri Dum Takk’.
“However, shockingly, in the month of March 2022, the plaintiff, through one of his close friend, came to know that his copyright in the aforesaid original literary work was being infringed by the defendants herein and a show by the name of ‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’ is being produced by defendant no.1, 2 & 4 and is getting broadcasted on Disney+ Hotstar (defendant no.5), an OTT platform owned and run by defendant no.6,” the swimsuit mentioned.
Shharma claimed that he watched all of the eight episodes of Grylls’ present and picked up proof of the identical being an actual copy of his duly protected copyrighted work.
“The locations mentioned in the said work are the same as that of the said infringing show. The entry, interval, climax and the concept of the entire infringing show was based upon and filmed in the manner so narrated and formulated by the plaintiff in his original copyrighted script which was submitted to defendant no.3 (Warner Brothers Discovery), keeping in mind the defendant no.1 (Grylls) as host of the program,” the swimsuit claimed.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court issued summons to British adventurer and tv presenter Bear Grylls and others on Friday on a swimsuit filed by an Indian script author claiming his copyright within the unique literary work was infringed by the present ‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’.
The swimsuit sought a everlasting injunction restraining the defendants from infringing upon the Indian author’s copyright and in addition sought damages.
Justice Amit Bansal issued summons to different defendants — NBC Universal Inc and its Vice President Tom Shelly, Warner brothers Discovery, OTT platform Hotstar, The Walt Disney and Net Geo India.
The excessive courtroom requested the defendants to file their written statements and listed the swimsuit for additional listening to on February 22, 2023.
‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’ is being produced by Grylls, NBC Universal Inc and its Vice President Tom Shelly, and is broadcast on Disney+ Hotstar, which is an OTT platform owned and run by Walt Disney.
Plaintiff Arrmann Shankar Shharma mentioned he’s engaged within the work of script writing, tv/ movie manufacturing, actuality TV manufacturing and path, and has been engaged on a number of tasks and creating numerous literary/ dramatic works in a number of types for the aim of actuality tv and media leisure.
The plaintiff, who filed the swimsuit by means of advocates Imran Ali and Manpreet Kaur, mentioned in 2009, he conceived and developed, within the type of a script, a actuality present for the tv titled ‘Aakhri Dum Takk-Till the Last Breath’ as per which a TV actuality programme of 7-8 episodes was to be produced by taking 20 folks to jungle to take up challenges to beat the pure obstacles in numerous excessive terrains and sail by means of for a couple of month with none assist.
He mentioned the copyright of the script, manufacturing format and idea was duly registered and granted to the plaintiff by the Registrar of Copyrights, Corporation Office, Government of India on January 10, 2011 and the work additionally bought registered with Film Writers Association, Mumbai.
He approached the excessive courtroom contending that Grylls’ present, which has been working since 2013, has infringed on his unique copyright work ‘Aakhri Dum Takk’.
“However, shockingly, in the month of March 2022, the plaintiff, through one of his close friend, came to know that his copyright in the aforesaid original literary work was being infringed by the defendants herein and a show by the name of ‘Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls’ is being produced by defendant no.1, 2 & 4 and is getting broadcasted on Disney+ Hotstar (defendant no.5), an OTT platform owned and run by defendant no.6,” the swimsuit mentioned.
Shharma claimed that he watched all of the eight episodes of Grylls’ present and picked up proof of the identical being an actual copy of his duly protected copyrighted work.
“The locations mentioned in the said work are the same as that of the said infringing show. The entry, interval, climax and the concept of the entire infringing show was based upon and filmed in the manner so narrated and formulated by the plaintiff in his original copyrighted script which was submitted to defendant no.3 (Warner Brothers Discovery), keeping in mind the defendant no.1 (Grylls) as host of the program,” the swimsuit claimed.
