Panaji: The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) Limited has issued legal notice to the organizers of Sunburn Festival in connection with the infringement of copyright.

Mumbai-based legal firm representing IPRS has issued notice to Percept Live Private Limited for infringement of Copyrights subsisting in Literary and Musical Works by way of public performance /communication to the public and non payment of licence fees.

After denial of permission for mega festival, the organizers have shifted their event to Hill Top at Anjuna.

The legal notice has said that the communication to the public and or public performance of any work within the pepertoire of our client, without obtaining a valid licence, amounts to an infringement of our client’s copyrights vide section 51 of the Copyright Act, 1957.

It is pertinent to note that communication to the public  and/or public performance of any work includes the use of music in any manner such as playing a sound recording by a DJ as background music  or live /acoustic performances.

The firm has said that “the legal notice serves as a last and final opportunity upon you, the addresses to obtain a valid licence from our client and pay the requisite licence fees.

“Please not that the failure of addressee No 1 to obtain a valid licence or get the requisite clearance from our client or the concerned author for the event, namely Sunburn 2021,  amounts to an act of profiteering by seeking to illegally exploit the copyrighted works for commercial gain, free of cost and without paying the appropriate royalties, licence fees, as lawfully due to authors and owners of musical and literary works,” the legal firm has said. (GoaNewsHub)

Panaji: Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) on Sunday announced a special section for Goan films during ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The IFFI was inaugurated on Saturday in Panaji. ESG, a nodal agency to host IFFI, has announced special section for Goan films.

ESG Vice Chairman Subhash Faldesai told reporters at IFFI venue that eight films will be screened in the section, that will be part of the festival. He said that three member jury chaired by filmmaker and actor S V Rajendra Singh Babu along with Prashantanu Mohapatra (Cinematographer) and Pramod Pawar (Actor and Filmmaker) as its member had selected the films for the section which includes seven non-feature films and one feature film.

In the premier section, a non-feature film ‘Gagan’ produced by Suraj Kerkar and directed by Brijesh Kakodkar, Limits (non-feature film), produced and Directed by Vardhan Kamat, Kupamcho Daryo (non-feature film) Produced by Arjun Shinde and Directed by Himanshu Singh and D’Costa House (Feature film) produced by Dr Mrs Pramod Salgaoncar and Directed by Jitendra Shikerkar. (GoaNewsHub)

A complaint has been registered against actor-comedian Vir Das for allegedly making anti-India comments. The reaction was over his viral video, titled I Come from Two Indias.

He has been accused of using derogatory language against the nation as a part of the video, which was a part of an event in the United States of America. The complaint was lodged at the Tilak Marg police station in New Delhi.

Another complaint was filed by Advocate Ashutosh Dubey in Mumbai.

I have filed the complaint against Vir Das Indian Comedian with @CPMumbaiPolice @MumbaiPolice for defaming & spoiling the image of India in the USA, which is inflammatory.

He wilfully spelled inciting & derogatory statements against India, Indian women, & the PM of India. pic.twitter.com/xQuLuGwGZv

— ADV. ASHUTOSH J. DUBEY 🇮🇳 (@AdvAshutoshBJP) November 16, 2021

In the video, which is six-minute long, Das talks about the duality of the people in the nation. He addresses issues like rape, COVID-19, farmer protests as well as action against comedians over their statements. One statement from it, “I come from an India where we worship women during the day and gang-rape them during the night,” has been a subject of debate.

Vir Das issues clarification on viral video 

Vir took to Twitter to post his clarification about there being a ‘sizeable reaction’ to the video which he posted on YouTube. He stated that it was not a ‘secret’ that every nation had ‘light and dark, good and evil’ within it. 

The Go Goa Gone actor added that the message of his video was that one should not forget that ‘we are great’ and one should not stop focusing on what ‘makes us great.’ Das stated that the video ended with a ‘gigantic patriotic round of applause’ for a nation ‘we all love, believe in, and are proud of.’

He added that there was more to a country than the ‘headlines’. He stated that the video addressed the ‘deep beauty’ of the nation was the ‘point of the video and the reason for the applause.’ ‘Please do not be fooled by edited snippets,’ his clarification read.

🙏 pic.twitter.com/1xwR4Qp5Fw

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) November 16, 2021

He added that people cheered for India ‘with hope, not hate’ and ‘respect, not malice’ and that one could not ‘sell tickets, earn applause or represent a great people’, with negativity, but ‘only with pride’.

Das added that he took his pride for the nation across the world. He also stated that people from any part of the world ‘giving Indian an ovation is pure love.’ 

To the readers of the message, he made the same request he made from the audience of the show, ‘to focus on the light, remember our greatness and spread the love.’