As soon as we enter a club, everyone starts to groove on popular
movie songs; without it, every party seems incomplete isn't it?
But do you know before playing these songs publically, you should
have permission from the maker of the song? Otherwise, you could
land yourself in big trouble like copyright infringement. So here,
this article thoroughly discusses music and copyright. What
is Music copyright? How can we save ourselves from a copyright
claim? What questions should we ask before hiring a DJ or
organising a party? Does the provisions in the Indian Copyright Act
that allows making a remix from an old song to a new song
Copyright is the grouping of two words: "copy" and
"right", or one can say that the copyright refers to the
legal rights of the actual owner who owns the intellectual
properties possessions. In the words of Professor Ian Hargreaves:
"The copyright system cannot be considered suitable for
the digital age, because every day millions of citizens