Is there a need to break up the cartels in the radio – music labels negotiations?
Image from here One of the biggest Indian copyright litigation cases in the last decade has been the compulsory licensing battles between the radio and music industries. The newly founded private radio stations, in 1999, had wanted access to music and could not agree with the music labels on a reasonably royalty. One aspect of this litigation which intrigued me is the negotiating positions adopted by both sides. In the two rounds of litigation before the Copyright Board, the radio…
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