India, Aug. 20 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by the producer of a 1993 Bollywood movie, Lootere, seeking to restrain the release of a web series with the same title, ruling that registering a film title with an industry body is purely a private arrangement and does not create a statutory right like copyright.

A single-judge bench of justice Sandeep Marne said that registrations granted by bodies like producers' associations are an internal arrangement between their members and do not have any sanctity in law. "No statute confers right on associations of film producers to grant registration of titles or any other copyrightable works," the bench said, while rejecting the plea filed by Sunil Saberwal, producer of...