Rights and removals

Our basis for quoting

In India we rely on fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review. Section 52(1)(a)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957 says that a fair dealing with a work for criticism or review, whether of that work or of any other work, is not an infringement.

For the Hollywood track we also consider United States fair use. 17 U.S.C. § 107 names criticism and comment among fair-use purposes and weighs four factors: the purpose and character of the use, including whether it is commercial; the nature of the work; the amount and substantiality of the portion used; and the effect on the market for the work. The U.S. Copyright Office notes that there is no legal rule permitting the use of a specific number of words.

Neither law sets a word count or offers a safe harbour, and our reading of them is not a legal ruling. That is why we keep our own rules much tighter than any number would suggest.

Source: Indian Kanoon (statute text) [1] · Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School [2] · U.S. Copyright Office [3], checked 26 October 2026.

House rules that keep each use small and critical

• One spoken line by one character, 25 words or fewer, never edited or trimmed.
• At least 300 words of our own commentary about that line and that film.
• The line appears once, on its own entry page. Never in page titles, descriptions, link previews, page addresses, images, structured data, listings, share text or next to advertising.
• One line per film for the life of the site.
• No film media. Under section 14(d)(i)(A) of the Copyright Act, a photograph of any image forming part of a film is treated as a copy of the film, so we use no stills, frame grabs, GIFs, posters, key art, audio, clips or trailers.
• Credits on every entry: film, year, director, speaking character, actor and, where credited, the dialogue writer. Section 2(d)(v) names the producer as the author of a film, and section 57 gives authors the right to claim authorship. Crediting is a courtesy and an accuracy rule; we do not treat it as permission.

Source: Indian Kanoon (statute text) [4], checked 26 October 2026.

Performers

Indian courts have granted orders protecting performers’ names, images, voices and likeness against unauthorised commercial use; LiveLaw, for example, reported a Delhi High Court interim order of 20 September 2023 restraining the use of an actor’s name, likeness, image and voice. We therefore use actors’ names only as a plain-text credit inside an entry. We never use their photographs, likeness, voice or catchphrases, never put words in their mouths, and never place their names near advertising or shop links.

Before each scheduling batch we check every line against a private blocklist of lines and catchphrases named in court orders or registered as trade marks. A line on that list is never featured. The first searches will be run before the first entries are scheduled.

Source: LiveLaw [5], checked 26 October 2026.

If you hold rights or represent a performer

Email usingh@racingpoint.in with:

• Your name, and the rights you hold or the person you represent.
• The address of the entry or entries concerned.
• What you object to and what you would like us to do.
• How we can reach you.

We withdraw a disputed entry within 24 hours while we review your notice, acknowledge it, and record it in the log below. A withdrawn line is never republished, and its date shows a withdrawal notice instead. We take notices seriously: knowingly infringing copyright is an offence under section 63 of the Copyright Act.

Notices log

No rights notices received as of 26 October 2026. No entries have been published yet.

Independence

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