From the judgment and order dated 13 2 1974 of the Calcut ta High Court in Copyright No.
Sen, B.K. Bachawat, D.K. Sinha, H.S. Parihar and I. Shroff, for respondents 12 and 22.
K. Sen, E.P. Skons James, J. 1.
Mehta, J. Roy Choud hary, S.K. Mehta, K.R. Nagaraja and P.N. Puri, for the appellant.
L. Nain, Atul Munim and B. R. Agarwala, for re spondent No.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
Chaudhury, R.K. Bachawat, D.K. Sinha, H.S. Parihar and I. N. Shroff, for respondents 1 5 and 12 and 22.
C. Bhat, Atul Munim and B.R. Agarwala, for respondents 6 8.
JASWANT SINGH, J. This appeal by certificate granted under Article 133 1 of the Constitution by the High Court of Judicature at Calcutta which is directed against its judgment dated February 13, 1974, raises the following substantial question of law of general importance Whether in view of the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957, an existing and future rights of music companyposer, lyricist is capable of assignment and whether the producer of a cinematograph film can defeat the same by engaging the same person.
V.R. Krishna Iyer, J. also gave a separate opin ion.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Jaswant Singh, 3.,
967 of 1975.
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