‘Tele-trial’ brings Beverly to Mysore

The revolution in telecommunications and hi-tech gadgetry conspired today to shrink the distance between Beverly Hills and the City of Palac...

The revolution in telecommunications and hi-tech gadgetry conspired today to shrink the distance between Beverly Hills and the City of Palaces.

Creating legal history, the Mysore Sessions Court recorded the first-ever ‘‘tele-trial’’ of a case pertaining to copyright infringement. The court video-conferenced with the defendant, Hollywood movie producer Devlin, who was deposed from the US.

District and Sessions Judge G.V. Hegde heard the trial on a big screen placed in front of him on which the defendant along with his counsel appeared. Devlin, the producer of Independence Day defended his case, following charges framed by NRI Veda Nayak, from Mysore, who claimed that Independence Day was a direct copy of his 1986 script titled ‘‘Extra-Terrestrial Mission.’’

Today’s exercise was organised to spare the defendant the inconvenience of frequent travel to Mysore from the US during the course of the trial which is now in its sixth year.

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