Even regular follower of
Court cases may not have memory of the order given in C.S.No. 601 of 2017
C.S.Ho.601 of 2017 in High Court of Judicature, Madras and to connect it with Bollywood
would require a regular cine-goer …. It was an application praying the Hon’ble Court
to grant order of interim injunction
restraining the respondents [1 to 37] and any other person or entity infringing –
including the websites hosting contents
that relate to plaintiff's copyright, protected cinematographic films !!!!
Read a
review in a paper that ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ is a “bold” film in the
Indian context is incontestable. It shows women looking for sex, enjoying it,
looking for freedom from oppression, looking to be able to smoke and drink
freely, looking for the chance to earn a living and be good at it. What’s to
carp about? ~ those who made it claim it
the story to be lady-oriented, their fantasy above life. Then there is another movie : ‘Jab Harry Met
Sejal’ (romantic comedy film written and
directed by Imtiaz Ali, featuring Shah
Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma in the lead roles … I am unlike to see both the
movies, even when they are put on TV – the Hindi films that I saw could be
counted in one hand …
however, the first Hindi movie,
I ever saw was when I was studying 7th Standard or so. Went with a couple of friends to Children’s
theatre Madras and after buying ticket and getting in realized that it was no
children movie .. a couple of scenes made me look around to ensure that no one
of my locality known to me were around !! Considered one of the best Hindi comedy films
of the 1970s, it was a nostalgic
favourite for its quirky take on pre-hypercongestion Bombay featuring Amol
Palekar and Vidya Sinha !!! ~ this is no post on Cinema but how the 2 movies mentioned at the
start are affecting ‘You and Me’
If you had observed it - access
to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine has been confirmed to be blocked by
several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across India. For those unaware, the
Wayback Machine project is an online library of over 302 billion web pages and
provides access to users to more than a decade-old online content for free. It
is an initiative of a 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation called Internet
Archive. Blocking access to it means restricting
netizens access to an entire library with the wealth of free information and
history.
The non-profit
organisation is already aware of the situation and has reached out to DoT and
MeitY to get a response on the matter. However, there is none yet while they
wait to see full access being restored to web.archive.org. “With the Wayback Machine blocked, Indians
will find it difficult to catch liars on the Internet. It may even hit India’s
attempt to root out corruption, doublespeak and is likely to make a number of
government bodies less accountable to citizens.” India Today claimed.
Known Modi haters and
trolls tried to spread this news. One such guy, a person who is apparently a
lawyer, re-tweeted blamed the Central Govt.
conveniently hiding the fact that archive.org is not blocked on orders of
Government of India, but Madras High Court. As it turns out, Prakash Jha Productions
and Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. approached the court of Justice Anita
Sumanth in an attempt to stop pirated copies of their films Lipstick Under My
Burkha and Jab Harry Met Sejal from being viewed online. As per the order, many
as 2,650 websites have been blocked as per the Madras High Court order.
So, the knowledge storehouse
- archive.org is blocked on behest of Madras High Court after complaint by
Bollywood studios – but sadly, if it was for the media and a producer seeking
ban against his work becoming online, why should it apply to millions of text
that was readily available ? the only
condition should have been that - if these movies are leaked by
uploading its media files somewhere, archive.org should not preserve the media file without taking into
consideration the copyright issues; then why make its access unavailable ?
Looking forward to the removal of ban and ‘archive.org’
becoming available to all of us…
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
29th Sept. 2017
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