PRSAny event organiser, if using copyrighted music or songs in a party, would have to inform the copyright societies which will issue an invoice for payment of royalty along with proof of their rights as per an interim arrangement arrived at in the Delhi High Court between a firm and three such societies. To inform three societies Under the arrangement, anyone who is going to hold an event will inform the three societies — Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS), Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and Novex Communications Pvt Ltd — about copyrighted work to be used. One of these three, which hold the rights, will issue an invoice for royalty along with proof of ownership of the copyright. Organisers would have to pay royalty prior to holding the event, Justice Najmi Waziri noted in his order, while directing the respondent societies to “upload on their respective websites the [copyright] assignment deeds along with the list of songs pertaining to such assignment deed”. The order came after the societies claimed they were “legitimate assignees of copyrighted works or are otherwise duly authorised agents of copyright owners” and sought to enforce their rights under Sections 18 (assignment of copyright) and 30 (licences […]

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