The Delhi High Court recently ordered Paramvah Studios,
Delhi High Court fines Rakshit Shetty ₹5 lakh for unauthorised use of songs in Bachelor Party film
The Court stopped short of sending Shetty to jail, instead asking him and Paramvah Studios to pay ₹5 lakh to purge contempt of its orders.
The Delhi High Court recently ordered Paramvah Studios, the production house spearheaded by Kannada actor-director Rakshit Shetty, to pay a total of ₹25 lakh for the unauthorised use of two songs in his Kannada film Bachelor Party. [MRT Music v. Paramvah Studios]
Justice Tejas Karia held the studio liable for copyright infringement and willful disobedience of court directions, rejecting the filmmakers' defence that the musical usage was too "minimal" to require a license.
"In any event, the use of the Original Works in the Impugned Film was not m...