T-Series serves legal notice to video apps for copyright infringement
By : Legal Era
Update: 2020-09-07 12:42 GMT
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Music company Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, which operates under the brand name T-Series has issued notices to many social video platforms such as Bolo Indya, Mitron, MX Player’s Takatak, Triller and Josh, for copyright violations and warned them against using the work of the company on their platforms in any form.As per an infringement notice, T-Series, has asked each of...
Music company Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, which operates under the brand name T-Series has issued notices to many social video platforms such as Bolo Indya, Mitron, MX Player’s Takatak, Triller and Josh, for copyright violations and warned them against using the work of the company on their platforms in any form.
As per an infringement notice, T-Series, has asked each of the aforementioned short-video platforms to pay around Rs. 3.5 crore in damages and “render accounts of all revenues illegally earned” by the platforms from the copyrighted content.
The company has also served notice to Chinese app Snack Video which is operational in India.
According to Bolo Indya, it does not offer audio and video library as a feature to users as of date and thus there is no base for any breach of music rights. Bolo Indya founder Varun Saxena said that his company is a UGC (user generated content) platform and due to the ban of Chinese applications, a lot of content creators started uploading those videos which they created on those banned apps. These videos weren’t created on Bolo Indya platform and any such video reported from time to time, where any possible breach of IPR is there, is immediately removed from the platform.
He said that his firm always requests music companies to work collaboratively with it like they do with YouTube and report any copyrighted content.
The demand for new video-based social media apps rose in the country after the government banned popular Chinese apps Tiktok, Helo, Likee, Bigo Live etc.
According to T-Series, its proprietary repertoire comprises over 40,000 videos and more than 1.5 lakh songs, accounting for more than 20,000 hours of music available in various languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Bhojpuri etc.
Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited has said that most of the major global internet giants such as Facebook, Amazon, etc, and top mobile application owners such as Amazon Prime, Amazon Music, Gaana, Saavn, Wynk, Spotify, etc, have already taken licences from T-Series for use of its copyrighted content.