Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah: Delhi HC restrains unauthorised use of content in YouTube videos, social media posts

The Delhi High Court has barred unauthorised use of the popular TV show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah's content. It added that the order would cover platforms illegally selling the show’s merchandise, copying its character, or creating Artificial Intelligence images, deepfakes and animated videos, including John Doe defendants. 1 to 12 and 14 to 21,, their owners, partners, proprietors, officers, servants, employees and all others in capacity of principal or agent, acting for and on their behalf or anyone claiming through by or under it, from in any manner, hosting, streaming, broadcasting, transmitting, exhibiting, making available for viewing and downloading, providing access to and communicating to the public displaying, uploading, modifying, publishing, updating, sharing, offering for sale on their websites, through the internet, or in any manner or platform whatsoever, any content, goods or services, that in any manner whatsoever, amounts to infringement/passing off, of the plaintiff’s copyrighted material/ registered trademarks, including, but not limited to the title, the Characters, Format and Underlying Materials in the said show or anything else, which otherwise amounts to an infringement of the plaintiff’s Copyright/registered trademarks/passing off of the goods/services offered by the defendants,” the Court ordered. More details {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Per the report, Neela Film Productions Private Limited, the producer of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, had approached the Delhi High Court arguing that they own the title, the format, characters, characterizations, character mannerisms, characteristic dialogues, voice, dialogue delivery, mannerisms and all other intellectual property rights in the show.