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Supreme Court Refuses Ilaiyaraaja’s Bid to Move Copyright Case to Madras

By rejecting the transfer plea, the Supreme Court ensures Sony’s 2022 suit over 536 Ilaiyaraaja compositions remains before the Bombay High Court.

Ilaiyaraaja Music Copyright Case: Supreme Court Rejects Composer's Plea To Move Case To Madras High
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Overview

  • A bench led by Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria dismissed the transfer petition on July 28, 2025, keeping the case in Mumbai.
  • Sony Music filed its Bombay High Court suit in 2022 seeking to restrain Ilaiyaraaja Music N Management Pvt Ltd from using 536 compositions it says were acquired via Oriental Records and Echo Recording.
  • Ilaiyaraaja’s company contended that 310 of those works are already under examination in a parallel suit before the Madras High Court dating back to 2014.
  • The Madras High Court’s 2019 ruling allocated sound recording rights to Echo Recording while affirming Ilaiyaraaja’s moral and special rights over the underlying compositions.
  • With both the Bombay and Madras suits set to proceed independently, stakeholders face the possibility of conflicting verdicts on the same catalogue.