July 11, 2005

Movie Ringtone Rights Fight Goes To Court

31poster.jpg A very interesting fight on ringtone/telecom rights for a new movie, the first of such a dispute.

"Sarkar, a new movie starring superstar Amitabh Bachhan (a remake of The Godfather), is a songless wonder but with a slick background score, is at the center of this controversy.

Apparently, the film producers gave the “telecom rights” to the Indian mobile content company Mauj, and song rights to Super Cassettes Industries (SCI).

But SCI went ahead and sub-licensed the ringtone development to another company and started promoting it in TV advertising. Now Mauj is suing the two companies…"

[via Content Sutra and Moco News]

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