{"id":1007128,"date":"2026-05-07T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007128"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:12:38","slug":"indias-zee-sues-nykaa-over-alleged-copyright-misuse-of-songs-on-instagram-reels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/indias-zee-sues-nykaa-over-alleged-copyright-misuse-of-songs-on-instagram-reels\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Zee sues Nykaa over alleged copyright misuse of songs on Instagram reels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Zee Entertainment has sued fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa for allegedly using its copyrighted songs in Instagram reels to promote its products, seeking $210,000 in damages, previously unreported court documents show. <\/p>\n<p>In an April 3 lawsuit filed in the Delhi High Court, Zee argued it has a \u200clicensing agreement \u2060with Meta \u2060Platforms that allows individuals to use its music in Instagram posts for non-commercial use, but said Nykaa had used several of Zee&#8217;s copyrighted songs in reels to promote products to millions of followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Zee Entertainment has sued fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa for allegedly using its copyrighted songs in Instagram reels to promote its products, seeking $210,000 in damages, previously unreported court documents show. In an April 3 lawsuit filed in the Delhi High Court, Zee argued it has a \u200clicensing agreement \u2060with Meta \u2060Platforms that allows individuals to use its music in Instagram posts for non-commercial use, but said Nykaa had used several of Zee&#8217;s copyrighted songs in reels to promote products to millions of followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007166,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007128\/revisions\/1007166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}