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| Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy |
The Madras High Court has refused to grant permission to the Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution to amend the prayer in the copyright suit it filed to include Periyar's speeches and publications.
The present petition sought to amend the prayer in the original petition so as to include Periyar's articles, speeches and other manuscript compilations. Hearing the matter, Justice T Mathivanan of the Madras High Court, rejecting the plea to amend the petition said “The amendments, which are sought to be made at the belated stage, cannot be allowed as it may change the nature of the defence of the respondent.”
The dispute began in 2008, when the Periyar Self Respect Propoganda Institution had moved the Madras High Court restraining the Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam, a political party of Tamil Nadu from publishing Periyar's writings published between 1925 and 1949 in the party’s weekly ‘Kudiyarasu. After the single judge and a division bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the petition and appeal, the Institution appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court too refused to interfere in November, 2010 and held that the writings of Periyar had come to the public domain 25 years after his death.
Authored by Ms. Sharada Kalamadi
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