Chitram tv usa1/4/2023 DISH asserted that the defendants are willfully infringing copyrights because they have continued to retransmit DISH’s exclusively licensed channels, despite DISH’s request that they cease this conduct. However, DISH averred that “Chitram is taking television channels exclusively licensed to DISH and is unlawfully retransmitting these channels throughout the United States on Defendants’ ChitramTV service (the Chitram Service) to customers who purchase Defendants’ Chitram set-top boxes and Chitram Service subscriptions.”ĭISH argued that it did not authorize the alleged conduct and it has not been compensated. filed a complaint in the Southern District of Texas against Dinesh Vigneswaran doing business as Chitram TV Canada and Chitram.ca (Vigneswaran) as well as unknown individuals doing business as ChitramTV and (collectively Chitram) for copyright infringement over the defendants’ purported retransmission of programs of which DISH has the exclusive distribution and performance rights.Īccording to the complaint, DISH “contracts for and licenses rights for the international channels distributed on its platform from channel owners and their agents.” DISH noted that it entered into licensing agreements with various networks, which granted DISH “the exclusive right to distribute and publicly perform the Protected Channels and works that air on the Protected Channels in the United States.” DISH added that its exclusive distribution and performance rights are currently in effect. On Tuesday, television provider DISH Network L.L.C.
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