saregama to go off air??(article)

Injunction against Zee TV

PRS and PPL have secured an injunction against Zee TV from the Hon'ble Delhi High Court from broadcasting programmes and shows that feature published songs and musical compositions, without obtaining license for use of Literary and Musical Works and Sound recordings. A press release said that Saregama Challenge 2007, the TV talent show, could possibly go off air as The Indian Performing Rights Society Limited(IPRS) and Phonographic Performance Limited(PPL), in a joint action, have secured an interim injunction against Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zee TV) on July 10, 2007 from the Delhi High Court restraining Zee TV from featuring published music (musical compositions, lyrics and songs) in its programmes, shows and serials without obtaining prior license from IPRS and PPL, to the extent of the music owned by the members of IPRS and PPL. This order would technically mean that Zee TV would either have to stop broadcast, obtain a license, or both. IPRS and PPL were represented by Sr. Counsel Mukul Rohatgi and also Praveen Anand, Ameet Datta, Himanshu Bagai and Shrawan Chopra. Says Savio D'Souza of the IMI, "The sad part is that a setup like Zee TV itself has so much creative matter that is copyrighted. Why should such people who are copyright holders show such reluctance to respect other people's copyrights? It is heartening that we have got a decent order from the court and this should open up a debate on this topic. Whether it is a pub, an awards show or a channel, why should there be a reluctance to pay for what another creator rightfully deserves?" Zee TV senior VP Ashish Kaul counters, "The injunction is an ex-parte one, which does not mean anything more than the fact that the Court does feel that IPRS and PPL have grounds for a case but wants to ascertain whether it is so by hearing our reply. The injunction is returnable by October 10. Of course if the court decrees we will pay up anyone to whom we owe money, but we need to know whether any such owners of the rights have given a mandate to IPRS and PPL who have asked for an astronimical figure. In any case, we have already paid rights to so many companies like T-Series, Universal and others and have the rights to the biggest Hindi film library in the world."

https://www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=16598

Chitra ji, it was I think for last week and we ended up thinking that it was a rumour/TRP raising technique... but don't know the truth....

How about if the compositions were used that belonged to the mentors?

Zee TV senior VP Ashish Kaul counters, "The injunction is an ex-parte one, which does not mean anything more than the fact that the Court does feel that IPRS and PPL have grounds for a case but wants to ascertain whether it is so by hearing our reply. The injunction is returnable by October 10. Of course if the court decrees we will pay up anyone to whom we owe money, but we need to know whether any such owners of the rights have given a mandate to IPRS and PPL who have asked for an astronimical figure. In any case, we have already paid rights to so many companies like T-Series, Universal and others and have the rights to the biggest Hindi film library in the world."

Please note Zee TV reply the hearing is in OCT 10 by then we can expect SRGMP to be over or in the last stages