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Music rights company welcomes HC order on compliance
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- Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) welcomed a recent order by the Bombay High Court (HC), saying it would help make people aware of the importance of paying compliance fees in exchange for playing songs in commercial establishments.
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- Petition filed by PPL: a record-based institution, said that it is not compensated for commercial use of the music whose rights they hold, even though the mechanism is in place for compliance fee and licences.
- The HC, on Nov 27 passed an interim order: restricting restaurants, pubs, hotels, cafés and resorts across the country from playing popular songs, which had a copyright, without making payment to PPL and getting a copyright licence from them.
- Recent court order assumes greater significance: in view of the forthcoming festive celebrations, as according to PPL, the order applies to all usage of music including the ones being played in public places on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
- Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
(1) PPL India is a 78-year-old performance rights organisation that handles public performance rights for 340 music labels including Saregama, Super Cassettes and Universal Music.
Sources
The Hindu