T-Series files for copyright infringement against Yahoo

The Delhi High Court recently issued a notice to Yahoo Inc. and its Indian subsidiary Yahoo Web Services (India) Pvt. Ltd on a suit filed by Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL) owner of the music label T-Series for infringement of their copyright caused by unlicensed streaming of SCIL’s works on Yahoo’s portal www.video.yahoo.com. Early this year a number of music videos whose copyright and publishing rights are owned and controlled by T-Series were located on Yahoo’s Website. A cease and desist notice was sent to Yahoo along with a sample list of infringing works and they were asked to remove all the contents that were owned by T-Series. In response to the legal notice, Yahoo Inc. reverted by asking T-Series to send a notice under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) an American Law. Apart from issuing a notice to Yahoo, Delhi High Court also passed an interim-injunction against Yahoo and specifically ordered that Yahoo, its officers, agents, servants and representatives are restrained from reproducing, adapting, distributing or transmitting in any manner on their website www.video.yahoo.com or otherwise infringing in any manner the copyright of T-Series in films and songs and underlying copyright works without obtaining an appropriate license from T-Series. Unlicensed streaming/hosting of copyright works by sharing websites have become a menace. T-Series had also filed a case against YouTube.com and its parent company Google Inc. for a similar infringement. The case unfolded with T-series obtaining an interim restraint against YouTube and Google. By Ms.Bobby Aanand, Metropolitan Jury.

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