| MUMBAI:
Super Cassette Industries (T-Series) has got an injunction from the Delhi High
Court on India News, a Hindi news channel, for using its content without procurring
a valid license. The injunction bars the channel from broadcasting and telecasting
T-Series content in any manner. Says
T-Series marketing, media and publicity president Vinod Bhanushali, "Like
all news channels, this particular channel used to take songs from the
T-Series
catalogue and insert them in related stories which they aired from time-to-time.
India
News, for example, used the soundtrack of Munnabhai MBBS for any story related
to Sanjay Dutt. "For this they had promised to pay up a license fee. But
later, may be, they took things for granted and continued airing our content without
getting a valid license from us," says Bhanushali. It
was in November last that the authorities at T-Series finally had a word with
the channel and told them of the consequences if they did not acquire a proper
license from them immediately. But all that seemed to have fallen on deaf ears
because they refrained from correcting themselves. "We
had no other option but to approach the Delhi High Court which, on the suit filed
by us for a permanent injunction, heard the arguments at length and issued a notice
to India News and also granted an interim injunction against the channel prohibiting
it from using T-Series content in any matter till 21 July, the date of the next
hearing," adds Bhanushali. India
News executives were unavailable for comment. Also
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