Block Congress twitter account, says Court due to copyright violations

MRT Music Company launched a copyright lawsuit against three Congressmen, including Rahul Gandhi, for allegedly using KGF-2 music improperly at the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

After a music company filed a copyright action against the Congress for playing a song from the movie KGF-2 at the Bharat Jodo Yatra headed by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, a court in Bengaluru ordered the temporary shutdown of the party’s Twitter account.

A complaint was made against three Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, by M Naveen Kumar, the manager of MRT music, for allegedly violating copyright laws by using music from the Kannada film KGF-2 during the Bharat Jodo (unite India) yatra, which travelled through Karnataka last month before moving to neighbouring Telangana.

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The Twitter handle for the Bharat Jodo Yatra campaign was also temporarily blocked by the court.

The manager of the music company said that KGF-2 songs were used in the Bharat Jodo Yatra campaign videos.

The music label said Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted two yatra videos that featured well-known songs from KGF-2 without authorization in a first information report, or FIR, filed with the police in Bengaluru’s Yashwanthpur, according to news agency Press Trust of India.