The Humans of Bombay is a social media site that shares the unique stories of the people of Bombay. However, currently the company itself has become the prey of great controversy. Here’s everything you need to know about the People of Bombay v People of India case.
The Complete Controversy of “People from Bombay”!
The Mumbai-based storytelling platform “Humans of Bombay” has come under a lot of criticism, all because of a lawsuit filed by the platform against the “People of India”. The lawsuit alleged that the latter infringed the copyright of the former. The whole story is explained to you here.
This is how it started
The “People of Bombay” filed a suit against the “People of India” in the Delhi High Court. The lawsuit sought damages along with an injunction to protect the people of India from using the “Human of Bombay” content.
The Delhi High Court issued a notice on September 18 to the “People of India”. The notice referred to the allegations.
Then Brandon Stanton, the founder of “Humans of New York”, enters the scene. Brandon Stanton criticized “Humans of Bombay” for a lawsuit filed by the latter, and instead accused “Humans of Bombay” of stealing Brandon’s format.
On the social media platform, X, formerly Twitter, Brandon Stanton shared his disagreement with the act of “Humans of Bombay” saying that Humans of Bombay is suing another company for what he forgave it.
I kept quiet about the appropriation of my work because I think @HumansOfBombay they’re sharing important stories, even if they cashed in way more than anything I’d feel comfortable doing on HONY. But you can’t sue people for what I forgave you. https://t.co/0jZM05YyTt
– Brandon Stanton (@humansofny)
September 23, 2023
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However, the story does not end here. Recently, Humans of Bombay shared a post expressing the fact that the company is actually “grateful to Humans of New York and Brandon for starting this storytelling movement.” Humans of Bombay also expressed that the copyright claim is actually “related to the intellectual property in our posts and not to the storytelling at all”. Here’s how the company expressed its gratitude.
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The next thing in the story is an old video surfaced online in which Karishma Mehta expressed that the idea of Humans of Bombay actually came to her “out of the blue”. ALSO READ: Gopal Kanda acquitted of incitement to suicide. What is encouragement? ALSO READ: Gyanvapi case: 11 key facts about the Varanasi mosque controversy
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