Rakesh and Rajesh Roshan were fined for copying music

MUMBAI: It was a "crazy" day in court on Thursday. The Roshans — Rakesh and brother Rajesh — were censured for dishonesty but they ensured the Friday release of their latest film Krazzy4 .
The Bombay high court initially restrained producer Rakesh Roshan from releasing Krazzy4 without first deleting its plagiarized music score, but eventually allowed a settlement between the Roshans and music composer Ram Sampath, who had dragged them to court for copyright violations.
Hrithik Roshan's SMSes in his father's defence failed to work and only a settlement of Rs 2 crore saved the day for the Roshans, with the young composer coming out of the controversy feeling "vindicated".
A cheque of Rs 1,77,34,600 (the amount after tax deductions) was handed over to Sampath in the post-lunch session by the Roshans. Sampath had originally demanded Rs 2 crore in the suit and refused to negotiate.
"We are eager to encash the cheque and they (the Roshans) are eager to release the film," Virendra Tulzapurkar, counsel for Sampath, said before the consent terms were approved by the court which vacated its order of injunction.
In a landmark order for the entertainment industry, justice D G Karnik in the morning held that Rakesh and Rajesh Roshan were prima facie guilty of copyright violations and plagiarism.
Bombay HC said: "(Music composer) Ram Sampath has proved that he is the owner of copyright and that the four tracks in Krazzy4 are a copy of The Thump (the music he created for a television commercial for Sony Ericsson)... None of the Roshan's defence arguments has any merit."
Hrithik, who had a part in the video for the commercial with Sampath's musical score, had - after sending two SMSes urging Sampath not to "stress out" his father Rakesh Roshan "at his age" - sent a long explanatory message on April 4. The text message, along with the clinching expert opinion by composer Shiv Mathur and the fact that Roshan had indirectly admitted to using six seconds of The Thump in the film's score, helped the judge rule against the Roshans.

Courtesy:timesofindia.com
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