A John Abraham-starrer about a man called Sanjay Bajaj was titled Hamara Bajaj . Bajaj Auto took the actor’s production company, JA Entertainment, to court over the movie’s title, alleging copyright and trademark infringement. Its contention was that the line was from its mid-Eighties’ – and enduring – ad campaign for its Chetak scooter, production of which stopped in 2009. This situation cropped up in 2013. The Bombay High Court ruled in favour of the two-wheeler company. The title was changed to Agra ka Daabra but the movie has not yet been released.

Dabangg , a 2010 film starring Salman Khan, faced a similar kind of trouble when Emami objected to the use of “Zandu Balm”, the name of one of its products, in Munni Badnaam Hui , a chartbusting item number featuring Malaika Arora. The case was ultimately settled out of court. It was decided that the song would be used in Emami’s promotional campaigns.

Norwegian lamp company Luxo sued animation studio Pixar and parent Walt Disney for copyright infringement. Pixar made a short film called Luxo Jr. in 1986.

While that did not ruffle any feathers, Pixar’s selling replicas of the Luxo Jr lamp with a special Blu-ray release of UP without its permission did. This too ended in a settlement and the lawsuit being withdrawn. Luxo Jr has been Pixar’s mascot since 1986.

There are several other cases of copyright infringement between businesses and movies.

Some of them involve tattoo artistes suing movie studios and videogame makers for what they claim is unauthorised reproduction of their designs on prominent sports stars such as Mike Tyson, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.

Not even the popular Happy Birthday song was exempt from controversy. Documentary film maker Jennifer Nelson, who was making a documentary about the song’s history, had to pay $1,500 to use it in her film.

In 2013, she filed a class action suit, an act in support of all those who had had to pay a fee to use the song earlier, and music publisher Warner/Chappell agreed to pay a reported $14 million to end the lawsuit challenging its right to what could well be the world’s most well-known song. Warner/Chappell bought the rights for $22 million in 1988 and had made an estimated $2 million each year licensing the song for movies and TV.

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