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2026 Supreme(Online)(Del) 22

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
Tejas Karia, J
Phonographic Performance Limited – Appellant
Versus
Pass Code Hospitality Private Limited – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Chander M. Lall, Anku Sangal, Sucheta Roy, Ankit Arvind, Raghu Vinayak Sinha, Shaurya Pandey, Ananya Mehan
For the Respondents: Swathi Sukumar, Kartik Malhotra, Sumeher Bajaj, Anindit Mandal

Table of Content
1. ownership of copyright and its infringement (Para 1 , 2)
2. ad hoc arrangement for interim license fees (Para 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11)
3. submission of both parties on license fees (Para 12)
4. arguments regarding the applicability of prior judgement (Para 13 , 14)
5. impact of legal precedents on this case (Para 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19)
6. interpretation of section 33 of the copyright act (Para 20 , 21)
7. breach of copyright society regulations (Para 22 , 23 , 24)
8. stay of previous orders and their implications (Para 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33)
9. continuation of interim financial arrangements (Para 34)
10. final order on ad hoc license fees (Para 35)

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA

TEJAS KARIA, J

I.A. 7255/2024 & I.A. 8596/2024

FACTUALBACKGROUND:

1. The Plaintiff, Phonographic Performance Limited, is an owner of copyright in various sound recordings. Defendant No. 1, Pass Code Hospitality Private Limited, owns and operates various well-known high-profile pubs and bars.

2. The Plaintiff has filed the present Suit against the Defendants as the Defendants were using the Plaintiff’s sound recordings without taking any copyright license. As per Sect

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