[icernet] Author Bradford gets Indian court to pull TV soap

[Arul Selvan]

  Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford obtained an Indian court 
injunction on Wednesday forbidding a television channel from airing, 
until further notice, a soap opera she said copied from her novels. 
India's Sahara Television had already pulled ``Karishma - The Miracles 
of Destiny'' off the air a day after its debut on Monday, following an 
interim order by the Supreme Court staying the broadcast until 
Wednesday. The New-York based novelist stated in her case for 
infringement of copyright that the soap drew from three of her novels, 
particularly ``A Woman of Substance'', one of the top 10 best-selling 
fiction titles of all time.

Sahara said its serial depicts a woman, played by Bollywood star Karisma 
Kapoor, who emerges successful against all odds. ``A Woman of 
Substance'' is the tale of a tenacious woman's rise from poverty and her 
success as a businesswoman. Sahara denied the charges. ``We have nothing 
to do with the novels,'' Ejaz Maqbool, the channel's lawyer, told 
Reuters from New Delhi. ``Even if there are similarities, no one has 
exclusive rights to an idea.''

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