Delhi Court Restrains Unacademy From Using ANI's Content, Orders Take Down Of YouTube Videos
A Delhi Court has restrained educational technology company Unacademy from publishing, uploading or using the original videos or any copyrighted work or content of news agency Asia News International (ANI), including on its YouTube channel.
District Judge Hemani Malhotra of Patiala House Courts further directed Unacademy to remove and take down the videos or any other content infringing the copyrighted work of ANI.
The judge passed the interim order in favour of ANI in its suit against Unacademy, observing that irreparable harm will be caused to the news agency, in case it is not granted an ad interim ex-parte injunction.
It was ANI's case that Unacademy illegally and unauthorizedly reproduced three videos comprising the news agency's works on its You Tube Channel “Pathfinder by Unacademy” and also on syndicated newsfeed which is exclusively available to its subscribers.
It was alleged that without obtaining any authorization, licence or permission from ANI, Unacademy had systematically disseminated content incorporating the news agency's works on the said channel.
Ruling in favour of ANI, the Court said:
“Having gone through the submissions made by ld. counsel for plaintiff and on perusal of material placed by plaintiff on record, the plaintiff has made out a prima facie case and balance of convenience in its favour.”
The counsel appearing for Google LLC submitted that infringing videos had already been taken down from Unacademy's YouTube channel.
To this, the judge ordered that in future, Google LLC will take down, block and disable access to the infringing content published by Unacademy on its YouTube channel as prayed for in the plaint.
The Court issued summons in the suit and listed the matter for hearing on September 11.