MUMBAI: The Delhi HC has issued an interim order against YouTube LLC and Google, Inc. following a suit filed by Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL).

The HC has passed the order restraining YouTube and its parent company Google from reproducing, adapting, distributing, communicating, transmitting, disseminating or displaying on their websites or otherwise infringing in any manner any audio visual works in which the SCIL owns exclusive, valid and subsisting copyright.

SCIL, better known for its label T-Series, had earlier moved the Delhi HC against the two companies on account of rank infringement of its copyright in music by these companies.

YouTube.com, a website owned and controlled by Google Inc., has become popular over the past two years. The site largely contains user generated content in the form of amateur videos, apart from music videos from films and music albums.

SCIL claims that the business model of YouTube allows, encourages and profits from use of copyrighted work uploaded on the website without obtaining any license or permission from the rightful copyright owners and without paying them any royalty.

According to an official release, SCIL counsel Amit Sibal said that SCIL`s revenue comes from manufacturing and selling DVDs, CDs and audio cassettes of its copyrighted music and from royalties collected by licensing the copyrighted music to hotels, restaurants, television companies, radio stations, telecom operators and internet websites.

T-Series says that YouTube LLC and its parent Google Inc. have on their website YouTube.com been showing videos of SCIL`s copyrighted songs without SCIL`s license or permission.

"There are websites who encourage unlicensed sharing and distribution of copyright content, which is a new form of piracy in the digital medium. Copyright is the engine of creative output of popular content. We have to ensure that the incentive to create and distribute popular content is protected from these large corporates which are trying to profit by destroying the value of the hard work of thousands of artistes, for whom their creative output is perhaps their only source of livelihood," said SCIL MD Bhushan Kumar, in an official statement.