T-Series sues CWG committee

It's been a while since the Commonwealth Games 2010, ended but it seems the controversies surrounding the national event continue even today.

Bhushan Kumar, head honcho of T-Series has sent a legal notice worth one crore to the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010, for the infringement of copyright.

Apparently, the committee played some songs, the rights of which exclusively belong to T-Series, without prior permissions or licenses.

Though the list of songs, which have been used by CWG, is a pretty long one, Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire, Dhan Te Nan from Kaminey, Dholi taro from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Dhanno from Houseful, Deewangi from Om Shanti Om are some of them.

Vinod Bhanushali President of Marketing, Media and Publishing (TV), T-Series confirms, "Yes, we have sent a notice to CWG for playing our songs between 3 to 14 October without taking prior license for it.

They have done infringement of the copyright by telecasting songs without license.

They have taken ground license for playing the songs but they never took the license for telecast rights. We communicated with them first on October 27 on this matter. They have used our songs on different days, some of them played as songs and others only as tunes."