Madras High Court
Applause Entertainment Private ... vs Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited on 7 December, 2023
Author: Abdul Quddhose
Bench: Abdul Quddhose
C.S.(Comm. Div.)No.145 of 2023
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 07.12.2023
CORAM
THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABDUL QUDDHOSE
C.S.(Comm. Div.)No.145 of 2023
and
O.A.Nos.532 and 533 of 2023
Applause Entertainment Private Limited
37 G-3 TT Krishnamachari Rd. ,
CIT Colony Alwarpet
Ch-18 Rep. by its Authorised Signatory
Mr.Vighnesh Menon K.P. ... Plaintiff
Vs.
1 Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited
Bharat Sanchar Bhavan,
Harish Chandra Mathur Lane
Janpath, New Delhi-110001
2 MAHANAGAR TELEPHONE NIGAM LTD
5th Floor Mahanagar Doorsanchar Sadan
9 CGO Complex Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110003
3 BHARATI AIRTEL LIMITED
Bharti Crescent 1 Nelson Mandela Road
Vasant Kunj Phase II New Delhi -110070
4 AIRCEL CELLULAR LIMITED
pencer Plaza 769 Anna Salai Ch-02
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5 HATHWAY CABLE AND DATACOM LIMITED
05/806 8th Floor Windsor
Off CST Road Kalina Santacruz (East).
Mumbai-400 098.
6 TATA COMMUNICATION LIMITED
Vsb Mahatma Gandhi Road Fort Mumbai
Maharastra 400001
7 VODAFONE INDIA LIMITED
Summan Tower Plot No.18 Sector-11
Gandhinagar Gujarat 382011
8 IDEA CELLULAR LIMITED
Summan Tower Plot No.18 Sector-11
Gandhinagar Gujarat 382011
9 RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
Dhirubhai Ambani
Knowledge City Navi Mumbai 400709
10 TATA TELESERVICES LTD
10th Floor Tower I Jeevan Bharati 124
Connaught Circus New Delhi 110001
11 SYSCON INFOWAY PVT.LTD
402 Fourth floor skyline icon
Andheri Kurla Road Behind Mittal Ind estate
Andheri east Mumbai 400059
12 GTPL HATHWAY LTD
202 2nd Floor Sahajanand
Shopping Center
Opp. Swaminarayan Temple Shahibaugh
Ahmedabad-380004
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13 TIKONA DIGITAL NETWORKS
PRIVATE LIMITED Office 3A 3rd Floor LBS Marg
Bhandup(West) Mumbai-400078
14 BG BROADBAND INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Plot No.54 Marol Industrial
Cooperative Area Off Andheri Kurla Road
Andheri(East) Mumbai 400059
15 SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
2nd Floor TIDEL PARK No.4 Canal Bank Road
Ch-600113
16 SITI BROADBAND SERVICES PVT. LTD.
B-10 Lawrence Road Industrial Area
New Delhi North West DL 110035 IN
17 YOU BROADBAND AND CABLE INDIA LTD
2nd and 3rd Floor IQARA Centre
Near Gujarat Gas Circle Adajan-Hazaria Road
Surat-395009.
18 ASIANET SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
2A II Floor Leela Infopark
Technopark Limited Kazhakkoottam
Thiruvananthapuram Kerala-695581
19 DATA INFOSYA LIMITED
Station Road Durgapura Jaipur 302018
20 READYLINK INTERNET SERVICES LIMITED
Galaxy Plot No 7 Sakhthi Colony
Rk Puram Ganapathy Coimbatore-641006
21 OPTO NETWORK PRIVATE LIMITED
B-86 Sector-14 Noida-201301 Uttar Pradesh
India
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22 NETTLINX LIMITED
5-9-22 3rd Fllor My Home Sarovar Plaza
Secretariat Road Saifabad Hyderabad-500004
23 City Online Services Limited
701 7th Floor Aditya Trade Center
Ameerpet Hyderabad-500038.
24 Pioneer ELabs Limited
Pioneer Towers 7th Floor Plot No.16
Survey No.64 Software Unit Layout
APIIK i-Tech City Madhapur
Hyderabad 500080
25 AT and T Global Network Service India Pvt Ltd.
13th Floor 1305-06
Mohan Dev House 13 Tolstoy Marg
New Delhi- 110001
26 Nextgen Communications Limited
Thachil Complex No10 3rd floor
Raja Annamalai Road Saibaba Mission Post
Coimbatore-641011 Tamilnadu India
27 Virgo Global Media Limited
Plot No.5 Mithila Nagar Road No.10
Banjara Hills Hyderabad-500034.
28 Southern Online Bio Technologies Limited
Flat No.A3 3rd floor office block
Samrat Complex Saifabad Hyderabad- 500004
29 MyNet Services India Private Limited
12 I floor IV cross Gandhipuram
Pallipalayam Erode-638006
30 Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
9th Floor Maker Chambers-IV 222
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Nariman Point
Mumbai-400021 India
31 Limras Eronet Broadband Services Private Limited
Doshi Towers First Floor 156 Poonamalle High Road
Kilpauk Ch-10
32 RS Broadband Service India Private Limited
Doshi Towers First Floor
Old 156 New 205 Poonamalle High Road
Kilpauk Ch-10
33 Spectra ISP Networks Pvt.Ltd
Plot No.21-22 3rd Floor
Udyog Vihar Phase IV Gurgaon-122015.
34 Pulse Telesystems Private Limited
51/52 Real Towers 3rd Floor
Royapettah High Road Mylapore Ch-04
35 Essel Shyam Communications Ltd
1121 Hemkunt Chambers 11th Floor 89
Nehru Place New Delhi-110019 India
36 Five Network Solution (I) Ltd.
22/2 Plot No 275-B Gurunanak School
Compound Sion(West) Mumbai-400022. India
37 Atria Convergence Technologies Limited
Indian Express Building No.1
2nd Floor Queens Road Bengaluru-560001
Karnataka
Also at No.17/68 Chevalier Shivaji Ganesan Street
New Colony, T. Nagar,
Chennai - 600 017.
38 Action Lane
No.16 No 1A Kalpana Apartments
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1st Street Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board
Adyar Ch-20
39 Jak Communications Pvt Ltd
No.4 J Block Near 6th Avenue
Anna Nagar East Ch-102
40 C32 Cable Net Pvt.Ltd.
Old No.284 New No.204 Shanmugam Salai
Royapettah Ch-14
41 Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt Ltd
No.9 A/5 Club Road
Near Mittai Shop Chetpet Ch-31
42 Thiru Nagar Satellite Vission Pvt Ltd
No.149/80 Vijaya Theatre Complex
Behind Kasi Theatre Pillaiyar koil St
Jafferkhanpet Ch-83 ... Defendants
PRAYER: Plaint filed under Order VII Rule 1 of C.P.C. and Order IV Rule
I of Madras High Court Original Side Rules, 1956 read with Sections 51, 52
55 and 62 of Copyright Act, 1957 and the Copyright (Amendment) Act,
2012 and Section 7 Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and
Commercial Appellate Division of the High Courts Act, No.4 of 2016 - Suit
for the following reliefs:
a) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 1 to 37 from
infringing the cinematographic film "Por Thozhil" and said Work be directed
to block all websites/web pages and future websites (including their prefix
and suffix) and those Non-Compliant websites mentioned in Schedule-A
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hosting contents that relate to Plaintiff's copyright protected cinematographic
film "Por Thozhil" in any manner, thereby restraining the unauthorised
copying, transmission, communication or make available or display or
release or show or upload or download or exhibit or play and/or in any
manner communicate in and/or through their services immediate of receipt
of details of such infringing websites/webpages in writing;
b) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendants 38- 42 from
infringing the cinematographic film "Por Thozhil by themselves, their
partners/proprietor/directors, heirs, representatives, successors in business,
assigns, distributors, agents, servants or anyone claiming through them or
under them from infringing the Plaintiff's copyrighted cinematographic film
"Por Thozhil" by copying, recording, reproducing or allowing cam-cording
or allowing others to transmit, communicate or make available or
distributing or duplicating or displaying or releasing or showing or
uploading or downloading or exhibiting or playing and/or in any manner
whatsoever from communicating the cinematographic film "Por Thozhil and
said Work without a proper license from the Plaintiff or in any other manner
which would violate /infringe the Plaintiff's copyrighted cinematographic
film "Por Thozhil" through different mediums including but not limited to
CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc, VCD, cable TV, Direct to home services, internet
services, multimedia messaging services, pen drives, hard drives, tapes,
DAS, satellite, Conditional Access Systems or in any other medium/manner
whatsoever;
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(c) for costs of the suit.
For Plaintiff : Ms.Shruthi Srinivasan
JUDGMENT
Learned counsel for the plaintiff seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the suit. She has made an endorsement to that effect in the Court bundle. Accordingly, the suit is dismissed as withdrawn. Consequently, the connected applications are closed.
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Index : Yes/No
Speaking Order : Yes / No
Neutral Citation Case: Yes / No ab 8/9 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis C.S.(Comm. Div.)No.145 of 2023 ABDUL QUDDHOSE. J., ab C.S.(Comm. Div.)No.145 of 2023 07.12.2023 9/9 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis