Legends League Cricket Restrained from Playing PPL’s Copyright Songs for This Year’s Tournament: Bombay High Court

In a significant ruling concerning Copyright Act 1957, the Bombay High Court restrained the organisers of the cricket tournament Legend League Cricket (LLC) from playing copyrighted songs owned by Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) during the ongoing tournament without obtaining a valid licence. The order was passed by Justice Sharmila Deshmukh after the court found that the organisers had not secured the mandatory licence for using the copyrighted sound recordings during…