T-series sends notice to apps for copyright infringement

Music company T-series has issued notices to many social video platforms, including Bolo Indya, Mitron, MX Player’s Takatak, Triller and Josh, for copyright violations.

Super Cassettes Industries, which operates under the brand T-series, has asked each of these short-video platforms to pay around ~3.5 crore in damages and “render accounts of all revenues illegally earned” by the platforms from the copyrighted content, according to an infringement notice.

It has also served notice to Chinese app Snack Video, which is operational in India, and filed a lawsuit against short-video app Roposo.

T-series-appointed Ira Law firm confirmed the issuance of notices to these platforms but did not make any further comments.

Bolo Indya said it does not offer audio and video library as a feature as of date and thus there is no base for any breach of music rights.

“We are a user generated content platform. Due to the ban of Chinese app, a lot of creators uploaded videos that were created on those apps. These weren’t created on our platform and any such video reported from time to time, where any possible breach of IPR is there, is immediately removed,” Bolo Indya founder Varun Saxena said.

“When we launch audio library as a function, we will work in a collaborative manner with music firms as we respect their rights,” he said.

Triller declined to comment and other companies did not revert to queries.

The demand for videobased social media apps rose after the government banned many popular Chinese apps.