The Madras High Court today made absolute the interim injunction granted by it against five audio recording companies from making and selling film music compositions of veteran music director Ilayaraja violating his copy rights.
Justice R Subbaiah made the injunction already granted in this regard as an absolute one, on a petition by Ilayaraja who composed music for more than 4500 songs since 1970.
Ilayaraja had filed a petion seeking to restrain Agi Music private Limited, Echo Recording Company Private Limited, Unisys info Solutions Private Limited, Agi Music sdn bhd, Malaysia and Giri Trading Company, Mumbai, from manufacturing and selling, distributing or in any manner infringing his exclusive right under the Copy Right Act-1957.
Earlier, the court had granted interim injunction on the matter.
The counsel for Ilayaraja submitted that the music composer had not given copyright to any company through his wife as claimed by them.
Even for the sake of arguments, without admitting the assignment alleged to have been given by the deceased wife of the applicant, it would have expired in 2012, as such permissions are valid only for five years, he said.
Noting that these companies had no right to exploit the music composed by Ilayaraja, he said if injunction was not granted, that might lead to irreparable injury to him.
