Due to a copyright breach, Twitter was instructed to block the handles of Cong and Bharat Jodo Yatra

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• Nov 7, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

 Digital Desk: A
Bengaluru court ordered Twitter to temporarily restrict the accounts of the
Congress party and the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Monday due to allegations that they
violated MRT Music's statutory copyright by using the film "KGF
Chapter-2" sound files without authorization.

MRT Music filed the
complaint on Friday, and under the guidelines of the Copyright Act, the
Information Technology Act, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a FIR was filed at
the Yeshwanthpur police station against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam
Ramesh, and Supriya Shrinate.

M Naveen Kumar, the
manager of MRT Music, filed the complaint, stating that Ramesh had released two
videos of the yatra on his official Twitter account in which well-known songs
from the KGF-2 film were utilised without authorization.

"The
aforementioned videos were created utilising well-known sound recordings that
the complainant owned and controlled. The aforementioned sound recordings are
from the well-known international motion picture "KGF Chapter 2"
(Hindi version), according to Kumar.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is being led by Rahul Gandhi,
started on September 7 in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari and is scheduled to end on
January 30 in Jammu.

Five southern states—Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh, and Telangana—have been included in the march to date. In this
journey, it will travel through a variety of states.