Filmmaker Suneel Darshan accuses Google of copyright infringement

The Mumbai Police has filed an FIR against Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube MD Gautam Anand, and the top executives of the two software giants in a case of copyright infringement.

The FIR was registered following a Magistrate's order under section 156(3) of the CrPC on a private complaint filed by producer Suneel Darshan regarding his 2017 film 'Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha' being illegally uploaded on YouTube.

The offence was registered under section 63, 51, 69 of the Copyright Act, 1957.

Darshan in his complaint said that Google allowed unauthorised persons to upload his film 'Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha' on YouTube.

A magistrate court has asked the Mumbai Police to lodge an FIR.

There is no immediate statement either from Google or YouTube.

Those named in the FIR are Google LLC, YouTube LLC, Google India Ltd, Sundar Pichai, Gautam Anand, Joe Grier, Namrata Rajkumar, Pawan Agarwal and Chaitanya Prabhu.

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