{"id":965020,"date":"2025-09-29T07:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965020"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:43:14","slug":"ilaiyaraaja-moves-madras-hc-against-sony-music-claims-unauthorized-use-of-300-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/29\/ilaiyaraaja-moves-madras-hc-against-sony-music-claims-unauthorized-use-of-300-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilaiyaraaja moves Madras HC against Sony Music, claims unauthorized use of 300+ tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja on Friday told the Madras High Court that his collaborations with film producers and creative partners have always been on a principal-to-principal basis, and never as an employee or under a \u2018work for hire\u2019 arrangement, The Times of India (TOI) reported. <\/p>\n<p>The music maestro has filed a petition against Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt Ltd, seeking to restrain it from exploiting his compositions in more than 300 films across digital platforms, including YouTube, Apple Music, and Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja on Friday told the Madras High Court that his collaborations with film producers and creative partners have always been on a principal-to-principal basis, and never as an employee or under a \u2018work for hire\u2019 arrangement, The Times of India (TOI) reported. The music maestro has filed a petition against Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt Ltd, seeking to restrain it from exploiting his compositions in more than 300 films across digital platforms, including YouTube, Apple Music, and Amazon.<\/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-965020","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\/965020","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=965020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}