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Dish Network Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against ChitramTV Over Program Retransmissions

On Tuesday, television provider DISH Network L.L.C. 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 Chitram.tv (collectively Chitram) for copyright infringement over the defendants’ purported retransmission of programs of which DISH has the exclusive distribution and performance rights.

According 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. 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.” 

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