On the 18th of April, 2009, a single judge of the Madras High Court passed an order that there was prima facie evidence to show that the Defendant had composed the ‘pallavi’ portion and had granted an interim injunction of the use of only that portion. In 2009, he had filed civil suit (C.S 36/2009) seeking a declaration that only he could exploit all rights in respect of the lyrics. I found this on YouTube, I hope it’s the official version that was released. He claims that the Plaintiffs included the lyrics in the song that features in the film, and credited someone called ‘Mr. It was this portion that he read out over the phone to the Plaintiffs, as well as sent to them on a CD. In accordance with this agreement, he wrote part of the lyrics, referred to as the ‘ pallavi’ portion. The Defendant, both an advocate practicing in the Madras High Court as well as a Tamil Lyricist, was hired by the Plaintiffs to compose the lyrics of a song titled ‘Hey, Excuse me, Mr. On the 30th of September, 2016 – the Madras High Court passed a significant order on the copyright infringement of song lyrics in Susi Ganesan & Others v.
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