Copyright Violation: Delhi HC orders actor Rakshit Shetty’s production house to pay Rs 25 lakh to MRT Music
Bengaluru: The Delhi High Court has ordered Paramvah Studios, the production house of Kannada actor Rakshit Shetty to pay Rs 25 lakh to MRT Music for the unauthorised use of two songs in his Kannada movie Bachelor Party.
Justice Tejas Karia, by a 72-page judgment on March 28, held the Bengaluru-based production house liable for copyright infringement and wilful disobedience of an earlier court direction, rejecting the filmmaker’s defence that the film’s use of two songs for a ‘minimal’ length would not need a license from the copyright owners.
