MUMBAI: The plagiarism case which music composer Ram Sampath had filed against Rakesh Roshan and Rajesh Roshan for "directly lifting" his music for Krazzy4, has been settled "out of court". Thus, the case seeking damages of Rs 20 million has been vacated.
read moreMUMBAI: Digital sales of music will go up to 40 per cent of all music purchased worldwide by 2012, according to US based research firm In Stat. Digital sales went up to 10 per cent of the total in 2007, up from six per cent in 2006.
read moreMUMBAI: Rakesh Roshan's film Krazzy4 will be released on Friday 11 April 2008 with its title track deleted. Music composer Ram Sampath, who sought legal recourse for his 60-second music titled ?‹?“The Thump being copied as the title track of Krazzy 4, has also been granted interim relief of Rs 25,00,000 by the Mumbai High court on Thursday. Sampath had dragged Hrithik Roshans director father Rakesh Roshan and composer uncle Rajesh Roshan, to court, alleging that they have directly lifted his music for the Krazzy4 album, seeking damages of Rs 20 million.
read moreMUMBAI: Vh1, a 24-hour international music and lifestyle channel, is bringing Wyclef Jean to perform live first time in India for Vh1 Handpicked. Jean's tour will begin on 16 April in Bangalore, followed by Pune on 18 April and Mumbai on 19 April.Popularly known as a member of the legendary trio The Fugees, Jean has gone on to release platinum solo albums with hits like Maria Maria (with guitar legend Carlos Santana) and Hips Don't Lie (with pop/Latino sensation Shakira).
read moreMUMBAI: Delhi based FM station Hit FM has lauched 'The Ultimate Santana Challenge', an initiative to commemorate guitarist Carlos Santana. A personally autographed original Red Paul Reed Smith guitar of Carlos Santana can be won through IDEA presents The Ultimate Santana Challenge.
read moreMUMBAI: Fusion artiste Rabbi Shergill released his new music album in a unique fashion with Nokia Nseries, the multimedia sub-brand of Nokia, recently.
read moreMUMBAI: Soundflag, an online record label, claiming to be the first of its kind in the world, will launch on 20 April.
read moreMUMBAI:This promises to be the mother of all music launches, going by the hype it's been generating for weeks now.
read moreMUMBAI: Social video site Youtube will kick off its YouTube Living Legends programme with The Rolling Stones. The show invites global luminaries from politics, news, film, music, literature, humanitarianism and sports to talk freely with the YouTube community www.youtube.com/livinglegends.
read moreMUMBAI: Sun TV Networks private FM station SFM is launching in Guwahati on 8 April. SFM is part of Sun TVs subsidiary, South Asia FM Ltd. With the launch of SFM in Guwahati, the total operational FM Stations of Sun TV will go up to 29. Across India it already operates in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal,Pondicherry, Kozhikode (Calicut), Indore, Vijayawada, Varanasi, Tiruchy, Rajahmundry, Kanpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Mangalore, Kannur, Allahabad, Jabalpur and Mysore.
read moreMUMBAI: After setting the big screen on fire with her item number 'Babuji zara dhere', Yana Gupta seems to be adding yet another feather to her cap by making her singing debut with singer Dr Zeus. The album will be produced by Big Music.
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