Today"s Deccan Herald (page 4) has a report on the Supreme Court judgment on a legal battle over the copy rights of the Late Dr K. Shivarama Karanth's version of Yakshagana. Since other newspapers have not carried the report, I reproduce it below for those interested.
SC Okays free show of Yaksharanga
DH News Service
New Delhi, Feb. 21
The Supreme Court has said that Jnanapith awardee Dr Kota Shivarama Karanth's dance drama Yaksharanga can be performed for non-paying audience without any hurdle.
'If such performance is conducted before a non-paying audience by the appellant, which is an institution that comes within the purview of an amateur club or society, the same would not constitute any violation of the said order of injunction (copy right)' said a three-judge bench headed by Justice S B Sinha upholding the submission of Manipal-based Ac
ademy of General Education.
The apex court dismissed the contention of B Malini Mallya, who had dragged the academy to the court saying that the noted writer had willed the dance-form to her in his will, before his demise on December 9, 1997.
Mallya had filed a case against the academy in a district court in Karnataka for the performance of Yaksha Ranga at New Delhi on Sepember 18, 2001.
Both, the district court and the Karnataka High Court had vested the copyright with her in terms of the will of the great Kannada author. She claimed that Dr Karanth had composed the special dance form having seven verses or prasangas for staging Yaksharanga ballet apart from bringing in changes in the traditional form thereof on its relevant aspects namely - Raga, Tala, scenic arrangement, costumes etc.
Mallya had filed a suit for injunction and damages alleging violation of the copy right in respect of the dance drama vested in her in terms of the will stating that dr Karanth developed the new distinct style which is separate from traditional Yakshagana.
The academy had submitted that the copyright of the dance could not with Mallya as Dr Karanth had composed the dance drama with the assistance, staff and finance by the organisation of Mahathma Gandhi Memorial College Trust while he was the director of the academy at Manipal.
SC Okays free show of Yaksharanga
DH News Service
New Delhi, Feb. 21
The Supreme Court has said that Jnanapith awardee Dr Kota Shivarama Karanth's dance drama Yaksharanga can be performed for non-paying audience without any hurdle.
'If such performance is conducted before a non-paying audience by the appellant, which is an institution that comes within the purview of an amateur club or society, the same would not constitute any violation of the said order of injunction (copy right)' said a three-judge bench headed by Justice S B Sinha upholding the submission of Manipal-based Ac
ademy of General Education.The apex court dismissed the contention of B Malini Mallya, who had dragged the academy to the court saying that the noted writer had willed the dance-form to her in his will, before his demise on December 9, 1997.
Mallya had filed a case against the academy in a district court in Karnataka for the performance of Yaksha Ranga at New Delhi on Sepember 18, 2001.
Both, the district court and the Karnataka High Court had vested the copyright with her in terms of the will of the great Kannada author. She claimed that Dr Karanth had composed the special dance form having seven verses or prasangas for staging Yaksharanga ballet apart from bringing in changes in the traditional form thereof on its relevant aspects namely - Raga, Tala, scenic arrangement, costumes etc.
Mallya had filed a suit for injunction and damages alleging violation of the copy right in respect of the dance drama vested in her in terms of the will stating that dr Karanth developed the new distinct style which is separate from traditional Yakshagana.
The academy had submitted that the copyright of the dance could not with Mallya as Dr Karanth had composed the dance drama with the assistance, staff and finance by the organisation of Mahathma Gandhi Memorial College Trust while he was the director of the academy at Manipal.
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