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News |  16 May 2008 10:00 |  By RnMTeam

IPRS files case against SRK's Kolkata Knight Riders

MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) has filed a copyright infringement case in Calcuta High Court against Shah Rukh Khan's Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders.

IPRS alleged that the team had played 14 popular Hindi film songs like Dard-e-Disco and Mauja hi Mauja without its permission.

Justice Sanjib Banerjee of the Calcutta High Court, however, refused to grant an injunction on the use of the songs and directed the parties in the case to file affidavits stating their position.Kolkata Knight Riders' counsels Anindya Mitra and Debanjan Mondal said that they had permission to play nine of the 14 songs at the stadium from Super Cassettes, which they said had the copyright.

Justice Banerjee directed KKR and the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), which has also been made a party in the case, to file affidavits in opposition within two weeks after the summer vacation and IPRS its reply in another week. The matter would come up for hearing again in July.

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