If you are planning to party at one of the hot and happening five-star venues in Delhi this new year’s eve, chances are the DJ wouldn’t be able to accept many of the song requests.
Sound recordings and music of 71 films owned by various companies like Yash Raj films, Zee music and UTV are licensed by Novex Communications Limited.
Based on the company’s petition, the Delhi High Court has passed an injunction order restraining hotels like Park hotel, Lalit, Jaypee Vasant Continental and a dozen others from playing music owned by the company unless a separate events license, required to use the copyright materials on special occasion, is acquired at a fee.
Here are some songs that you will not be able to enjoy unless the five-star venues “obtain the requisite license/permission”.
Gulaabo from Shaandaar (Zee Music Co.)
Bezubaan Phir Se from ABCD 2 (Zee Music Co.)
Tune Maari Entriyaan from Gunday (YRF)
Tung Tung Baje from Singh is Bliing (Zee Music Co.)
Manali Trance from The Shaukeens (Zee Music Co.)
Novex Communications has shared a list of 1,097 songs (470 - YRF, 471-Zee, 156 - UTV) with The Quint which they say can’t be played by dozens of hotels in the national capital unless permission is acquired from them.
Delhi is home to a very large class of consumers with money to spend during the festival season. The owners of all sorts of high-end venues including all the city’s hotels and high-end restaurants, malls, pubs, discos and other such venues do not fail to cash in on the commercial potential of this period.
Novex Petition
Novex had filed a suit against Radisson Blu, The Lalit, Jaypee Vasant Continental, Lights Camera Action, J W Mariott, Hilton Garden Inn, The Same Place, Hyatt Regency, Le Meridien, Radisson Blu MBD, The Ashok, Shangrila Eros, Jaypee Siddharth, Ramada Gurgaon, Piccadily Hotel, Eros Hotel and Westin hotel.
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