Bombay HC Restrains Sports Authority Of India From Using Unlicensed Songs Of Phonograhic Performance Ltd At 'Horn Okay Please' Food Festival
Live LawIn what could spell trouble for Delhi's popular food festival - 'Horn Ok Please', the Bombay High Court in an interim order on Tuesday restrained the Sports Authority of India from playing songs or music owned by the Phonograhic Performance Limited without obtaining prior licence. Further, unless SAI is restrained from playing sound recordings of PPL without obtaining licence for the said event to be held on November 16 and 17, 2024, the SAI will once again infringe PPL's copyright in the sound recordings," the high court said in its order. The PPL argued that SAI indulged in acts of infringement of copyright of sound recordings belonging to it, at an earlier event held on September 28 and 29 this year, where they played its sound recordings without obtaining any prior licence. The high court thereafter passed the ad interim order that pending the final disposal of the suit, SAI and its employees, licensees, third party event management companies, or any person acting on its behalf are injuncted from "publicly performing or in any manner communicating the sound recordings of the songs authorised" to PPL without obtaining non-exclusive public performance rights in sound recordings from PPL.
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