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2021 Supreme(Kar) 455

M. NAGAPRASANNA
ANI TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED HAVING ITS OFFICE AT: MARUTHI INFOTECH CENTRE "A" BLOCK, 5TH FLOOR CHALLAGHATTA, BENGALURU -560 034 REPRESENTED BY AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY MR. A. M. IKTEAR UDDIN – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KARNATAKA THROUGH STATION HOUSE OFFICER JEEVAN BHIMA NAGAR POLICE STATION BENGALURU – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For The Appellant :SRI C.V.NAGESH, SR. ADVOCATE A/W SRI MAHESH S., ADVOCATE
For The Respondent:SRI R.D.RENUKARADHYA, HCGP, SRI M.S.SHYAM SUNDAR, ADVOCATE

ORDER :

The 1st petitioner/ANI Technologies Private Limited and its Directors are before this Court calling in question registration of FIR in Crime No.191 of 2017 and all further proceedings taken thereto.

2. Brief facts leading to the filing of the present petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows:

    The petitioners are also known as Ola or Ola Cabs. The 2nd respondent is Lahari Recording Company, one of the music companies in India. The petitioners who run Ola cabs launched a feature in their cabs/taxis where television/display sets are fixed to the headrest of the front seat where popular songs are played. This feature is known in the cabs circle as Ola play and such cabs are known as Ola Prime. Noticing that several of the contents of music videos and songs belonging to several of the films whose music copyrights the 2nd respondent owns were being displayed in Ola Prime cabs under the feature Ola play and on the ground that Ola cabs are indulging in commercial exploitation of copyright of the music whose copyright is owned by the 2nd respondent without purchas

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