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By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 06 Aug 2007 08:17 PM PST

I’m not getting into the whole copyright vs copyleft debate, but pluggd.in gives the lowdown on copyright issues that startups (for that matter, any company) might face. In India, rights of music across media platforms has been a source of much concern (i.e. legal notices and possible lawsuits) of late, so…

Is it necessary to obtain any licence or permission to use a musical sound recording for public performance?
A sound recording generally comprises various rights. It is necessary to obtain the licences from each and every right owner in the sound recording. This would ,inter alia, include the producer of the sound recording, the lyricist who wrote the lyrics, and the musician who composed the music

The other popular content issue is of video sharing sites. More here.

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From ishan Fri 19 Oct 2007 02:42 PM

no, it is not neccessary to actually take licences from each and every right owner, actually the right owners are part of a music company, who finally produced that song or movie or what soever.
what you have to do is take the license from that music co. & pay him ne royalty, if asked and start using for which purpose, the same has been told to the music company.
ishan