New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set aside a copyright infringement case against music composer A.R. Rahman , saying that Indian classical music goes back centuries and has long relied on oral transmission and creative reinterpretation.

The ruling is a big win for Rahman and the producers of the Tamil film, Ponniyin Selvan–II , who had earlier been directed to pay Rs 2 crore for copyright infringement over the movie’s popular song, Veera Raja Veera .

The case over the ownership of the song in the Mani Ratnam film arose when classical musician and Padma Shri awardee Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar approached the court, saying the song had been copied from his father and uncle’s composition, Shiva Stuti . Show Full Article

The father-uncle duo—the late Ustad N.

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