Madras High Court
Zee Entertainment Enterprises ... vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on 20 April, 2023
C.S.(Comm.Div).No.39 of 2023
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 20.04.2023
CORAM:
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.SOUNTHAR
C.S.(Comm.Div).No.39 of 2023
and
OA.Nos.135 & 136 of 2023
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
18th Floor, A Wing, Marathona Futurex
N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower Parel
Mumbai 400 013
and also branch office at
No.33B, Olympia Platina, 2nd Floor
SIDCO, Industries Estate,
Chennai 600 032.
Represented by its Power Agent
Mr.Akshay Mahadik ... Plaintiff
Vs.
1.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Bharat Sanchar Bhavan
Harish Chandra Mathur Lane
Janpath, New Delhi 110 001.
2.Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd
5th Floor, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd
9, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi 110 003.
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3.Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Crescent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road
Vasant Kunj, Phase II
New Delhi 110 070.
4.Hathway Cable & Datacom Limited
05/806, 8th Floor, Windsor
Off. CST Road, Kalina
Santacruz (East)
Mumbai 400 098.
5.Tata Communication Limited
Vsb, Mahatm Gandhi Road Fort Mumbai
Maharastra 400 001.
6.Vodafone India Limited
Suman Tower, Plot No.18
Sector-11, Gandhinagar
Gujarat 382 011.
7.Idea Cellular Limited
Suman Tower Plot No.18
Sector-11, Gandhinagar
Gujarat 382 011.
8.Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited
Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City
Navi Mumbai 400 709.
9.Tata Teleservices Ltd
10th Floor Tower I, Jeevan Bharathi
124 Connaught Circus
New Delhi 110 001.
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10.GTPL Hathway Ltd.,
202, 2nd Floor, Sahajanand
Shopping Centre, Opp.Swaminarayan Temple
Shahibaugh, Ahmedabad 380 004.
11.Tikona Digital Networks Private Limited
Office 3A, 3rd Floor
LBS Marg, Bhandup (West)
Mumbai 400 078.
12.BG Broadband India Private Limited
Plot No.54, Marol Industrial Co-operative Area
Off. Andheri Kurla Road
Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 059.
13.Sify Technologies Limited
2nd Floor, TIDEL PARK
No.4, Canal Bank Road
Chennai 600 113.
14.Siti Broadband Services Pvt.Ltd
B-10, Lawrence Road, Industrial Area
New Delhi North West
DL 110 035 IN
15.You Broadband & Cable India Ltd.,
2nd and 3rd Floor, IQARA Centre
Near Gujarat Gas Circle
Adajan Hazaria Road
Surat- 395 009.
16.Asianet Satellite Communications
2A, II Floor, Leela Infopark
Technopark Limited, Kazhakkottam
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695 581.
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17.Data Infosys Limited
Station Road, Durgapura
Jaipur 302 218.
18.Readylink Internet Services Limited
Galaxy, Plot No.7, Sakhthi Colony
RK Puram, Ganpathy
Coimbatore 641 006.
19.Opto Network Private Limited
B-86, Sector 14
Noida 201 301
Uttar Pradesh, India
20.Nettlinx Limited
5-9-22, 3rd Floor
My Home Sarovar Plaza
Secretariat Road, Saifabad
Hyderabad 500 004.
21.City Online Services Limited
701, 7th Floor
Aditya Trade Center, Ameerpet
Hyderabad 500 038.
22.Pioneer eLabs Limited
Pioneer Towers, 17th Floor
Plot No.16, Survey No.64
Software Unit Layout
APIIK, i-Tech City, Madhapur
Hyderabad 500 080.
23.AT&T Global Networks Service India Pvt.Ltd
13th Floor, 1305-06, Mohan Dev House
13, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi 110 001.
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24.Southern Online Bio Technologies Limited
Flat No.A3, 3rd Floor Office Block
Samrat Complex, Saifabad
Hyderabad 500 004.
25.MyNet Services India Private Limited
#12, I Floor, IV Cross
Gandhipuram, Pallipalayam
Erode 638 006.
26.Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.,
9th Floor, Maker Chambers – IV
222, Nariman Point
Mumbai 400 021, India.
27.LimrasEronet Broadband Services Private Limited
Doshi Towers, First Floor
# 156, Poonamallee High Road
Kilpauk, Chennai 600 010.
28.RS Broadband Service India Private Limited
Doshi Towers, First Floor
Old # 156, New # 205
Poonamalle High Road
Kilpauk, Chennai 600 010.
29.Spectra ISP Networks Pvt.Ltd
Plot No.21-22, 3rd Floor
Udyog Vihar, Phase IV
Gurgaon 122 015.
30.Pulse Telesystems Private Limited
51/52, Real Towers
3rd Floor Royapettah High Road
Mylapore, Chennai 600 004.
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31.EsselShyam Communications Ltd
1121, Hemkunt Chambers, 11th Floor
89 Nehru Place New Delhi 110 019 India
32.Five Network Solution (I)Ltd
22/2, Plot No.275-B
Gurunanak School Compound
Sion (West) Mumbai 400 022, India
33.Atria Convergence Technologies Limited
No.17/68, Chevalier Shivaji Ganesan Street
New Colony, T.Nagar
Chennai 600 017.
34.Action Lane
No.16, No.1A Kalpana Apartments
1st Street, Above Padmanaba Nagar Electricity Board
Adyar, Chennai 600 020.
35.Jak Communications Pvt Ltd
No.4 J Block, Near 6th Avenue
Anna Nagar East
Chennai 600 102.
36.C32 Cable Net Pvt.Ltd.,
Old No.284, New No.204,
Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah
Chennai 600 014.
37.Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt Ltd
No.9/A5, Club Road, Near Mittai Shop
Chetpet, Chennai 600 031. ...Defendants
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Prayer: This Civil Suit is filed under Order VII Rule 1 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908, and Order IV Rule 1 of O.S.Rules, 1956 r/w Sections 51,
52, 55 and 62 of the Copy Right Act, 1957 and the Copy Right (Amendment)
Act, 2012 and Section 7 of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015- Suit for
Permanent Injunction for the Infringement of Copy Right, praying to pass the
judgment and decree:-
a) A permanent injunction restraining the defendants 1 to 33
from infringing the cinematographic film “Golgappe” and said work be
directed to block all websites/web pages and future websites (including their
prefix and suffix) and those Non-Complaint websites mentioned in Schedule-
A hosting contents that relate to plaintiff's copyright protected
cinematographic film “Golgappe” 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 34-37 from
infringing the cinematographic film “Glogappe” by themselves, their
partners/proprietor/directors, heirs, representatives, successors in business,
assigns, distributors, agents, servants or anymore claiming through them or
under them from infringing the plaintiff's coyprighted cinematographic film
“Golgappe” by copying, recording, reproducing or allowing Cam cording or
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allowing others to transmit, communicate or make available or distributing or
duplicating or displaying or releasing or showing or uploading or
downloading exhibiting or playing and/or in any manner whatsoever from
communicating the cinematographic film “Golgappe” 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 “Golgappe” 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;
c) for costs of the suit;
For Plaintiff : Mr.S.Deepak
For Defendants : Mr.A.M.Venkata Krishnan for D2
: Mr.A.M.AmuthaGanesan for D9
ORDER
The learned counsel for the plaintiff made an endorsement
seeking leave of this Court to withdraw the suit. Leave is granted.
Accordingly, the suit is dismissed as withdrawn. No costs. Consequently,
connected Miscellaneous Petitions are closed.
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Index : Yes / No
Internet : Yes / No
dna
S.SOUNTHAR , J.
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