Singer Kinjal Dave moves Gujarat High Court over copyright case

Gujarati singer Kinjal Dave has moved the Gujarat high court in connection with a case involving copyright issues of her song Char Bangdi Vadi Gadi .

The matter will come up for hearing tomorrow. Earlier a commercial court in Ahmedabad had issued notice to Dave after Mumbai-based Red Ribbon Entertainment Private Limited filed a complaint in this connection. The firm had claimed that the song was an original piece of Melbourne-based Kathiawadi singer Kartik Patel.

The court had also restrained Dave from using the song in live shows, concerts, as well as for online downloads. She was to file her reply in the case by January 22.

Red Ribbon Entertainment had in the complaint said that Patel had uploaded the song on YouTube way back on September 29, 2016, and Dave's song was a copy of it with minor changes.

At that time it was submitted that not only had Dave used the song but also failed to give any credit to the original creator of the song. She had uploaded the song on December 20, 2016 and had thus infringed the copyright on Patel's song.

The commercial court while restraining the use of song had held that that prima facie it seemed that the wording and music of the song were deceptively similar and Dave had copied it from Patel's song.

Meanwhile, Kinjal had claimed that the song was written by Manubhai Rabari more than two-and-a-half years ago and was recorded in Saraswati Studio.