How does Ilayaraja’s charge square up? Can singers take off on a song he or she had sung which had been composed by someone else. To be sure, few singers compose their own songs. And songwriters form another stakeholder category in itself.
“As an Indian I feel very said. This legal notice could have been completely avoided. As a south Indian myself, I have grown up listening to both Shri Illayaraja's music and Shri SP Balasubrahmanyam's voice,” intellectual property rights lawyer Prathiba M Singh said.
Singh feels sorry because of the ugly fight but the law isn’t quite fully on Ilayaraja’s side, it seems .