In February we had carried a post on how PPL’s revenue from mobile ringtones shot up by a record 1857% in a period of just 6 years from Rs. 7 crores to over Rs. 137 crores. In a subsequent post we had pointed out, in considerable detail, how this remarkable rise in PPL’s fortune from licensing mobile ringtones had been accompanied by a remarkable dip in IPRS’s fortunes in the same segment. We had explained in that post how IPRS […]

One of the questions asked by the Registrar of Copyrights in his notice to IPRS (available over here) pertained to the role of Select Media Holdings Pvt. Ltd. in the collection of royalties on behalf of IPRS. Javed Akhtar & Co. had alleged in their complaint to the Registrar, dated 26th December, 2010, (available over here) that IPRS was licensing their content to Select Media in violation of Section 33 of the Copyright Act, 1957. (Previous posts on the topic

After 3 months of haggling with the Copyright Office for more information on the Copyright Societies – Indian Performing Rights Societies (IPRS) & Public Performance Ltd. (PPL) under the Right to Information Act, 2005 we have finally been given partial access to some of the information that we had initially asked for. As usual we had to request the Registrar of Copyrights Mr. Raghavender to intervene and explain to Mr. Saxena that the Right to Information Act, 2005 is a