As per reports, a film financer filed a case against Ms. Neelam Kumar Mangat Pathak and others for not repaying loan taken by Ms. Pathak. The Plaintiff sought injunction on release of the film ‘Raid’ which is co-produced by Ms. Pathak. The court refrained to prevent the release of...

As per reports, the Kerala police on March 14, arrested members of two popular piracy websites viz. Tamilrockers and DVD rockers, that have been accused of releasing pirated copies of several films in the last few months. The anti-piracy cell of the Kerala police arrested 3 members from Tamilrockers and...

Writer-lyricist Charanjit Singh Maakar, known in Punjabi folk circles as Channi Khannewala, has sent a copyright infringement notice to Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt Ltd, music label Super Cassettes, director Ahmed Khan, lyricist Ginni Diwan, music director Sandeep Shirodkar, singers Navraj Hans, Palak Muchhal , actor Tiger Shroff & others...

Super Cassettes Industries Limited seems to have obtained a bunch of injunction orders from Delhi High Court against several multi-system operators/ local cable operators. 1. Super Cassettes Industries Limited v/s Darsh Digital Network Private Limited - The suit was initiated by SCIL against Darsh Digital Network Pvt. Ltd, a...

The Competition Commission of India by its order dated March 8, 2018 refused to entertain a complaint filed by Sarv Prakash Developers (Informant) under Section 19(1)(a) of the Competition Act, 2002 alleging that the Opposite Parties (i.e. Phantom Films, Zee & Essel Group and Fox Star India) were...

As per reports, the Bombay High Court on March 13 refused to grant any interim relief to actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor on an FIR filed against them and some other film personalities in 2015 for allegedly using obscene and abusive language during the comedy event 'AIB Knockout'. In...

The Supreme Court on March 12, 2018 referred the case involving the TRAI tariff regulations back to the Madras High Court with a rider that the judgement should be delivered within a month. As per the details available on SC’s website, TRAI seems to have filed a transfer petition against...

In what could be noted as a major breakthrough for IPRS, IPRS has collaborated with Amazon India in respect of the IPRS music publishing repertoire for Amazon Prime Music in India (for Musical & Literary Works). Amazon India's recently launched ad free music streaming service, Amazon Prime Music, will receive access to the IPRS...

As per reports, the Delhi High Court on March 9, 2018 refused to entertain a PIL for a probe into the recent death of veteran Bollywood actress Sridevi, stating the authorities in India and Dubai have already looked into the incident. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar...

As per reports, the Banjara Hills police booked a case against Park Hyatt in Hyderabad for copyright violation, after the management of the hotel allegedly played audio tracks and videos of Bollywood films without acquiring proper permission. The police registered a case on the orders of a city-based court, after...