Hotel can play music

Hotel can play music
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PANAJI: A day after it refused to comment on the Indian Performing Right Society Limited's (IPRSL) announcement of a Delhi high court injunction against Marriott Resort, Goa with regards to playing of music in the starred hotel, V M Salgaocar & Brothers Pvt Ltd, the owners of the resort, released a press note on Thursday stating that the Delhi HC by its order on September 4, 2009 "has vacated the earlier order issued by the court restricting Marriott Resort from playing music".

A E Barretto, general manager (corporation law) and company secretary for V M Salgaocar, said in the note: "By virtue of the order passed by the Delhi HC on September 4, 2009, the injunction order of August 28, 2009, wherein the hotel was restrained from playing music, stands vacated and does not operate vis-a-vis the Goa Marriott Resort."

He added, "Goa Marriott Resort has contested the demands made by IPRSL with regards to the payment of licence fees on various grounds, inter alia, on the grounds that writ petitions are already pending before various courts challenging the right of IPRSL to collect license fees for the performance and communication of musical works."

2 October 2009,The Times of India, Goa edition