Pocket FM and Kuku FM ends legal disputes over copyright infringement
- ByStartupStory | January 3, 2023
Pocket FM and Kuku FM have reached an agreement in the Delhi High Court regarding a copyright violation case. According to a court filing, the two parties reached an agreement on December 16, 2022, and filed it with the court on December 21, 2022. Following the settlement, Kuku FM chose to remove those contents which are exclusively held by rival Pocket FM.
“Kuku FM undertakes to take down the Impugned Works forthwith from the Kuku FM platform and further undertakes to not to violate the rights of Pocket FM in the Impugned Works till the rights subsist in the name of Pocket FM or the rights are acquired by Kuku FM,” as per the settlement agreement between the two firms.
Sanchith Shivakumar, one of the counsels who represented Pocket FM in this matter, said in a statement that the case sets a “much needed precedent on the issue of audiobook summaries, which are becoming worryingly rampant in the market.”
“These audiobook summaries actively lure users away from original/licensed works leading to a complete dilution of the copyright owner’s economic rights. Consequently, this could be a big win for publishers and copyright owners,” he added.
The agreement also ensures that Pocket FM and Kuku FM will drop their dispute over the book on Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. Pocket FM is a personalized audio streaming service.It was founded in 2018 by Rohan Nayak, Nishanth KS and Prateek Dixit. Whereas, Kuku FM is a podcast platform that is re-inventing the traditional radio by more diverse audio contents. It was too found in 2018 by Lal Chand Bisu, Vikas Goyal and Vinod Kumar Meena.
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