Another Indian hotel's challenge to music royalty demands fails
By Freny Patel ( August 20, 2026, 03:50 GMT | Insight) -- The Indian Performing Right Society has secured another court victory in its effort to collect music royalties from hotels, with a Varanasi court dismissing a hotel's challenge to its licensing demands. The ruling follows a Calcutta High Court decision backing the society's position on copyrighted music played through hotel-room televisions, although the Varanasi court didn't decide that substantive issue.The Indian Performing Right Society, or IPRS, has secured another court victory in its effort to collect music royalties from hotels, with a Varanasi court dismissing a challenge to its licensing demands weeks after the Calcutta High Court backed the society's position that providing copyrighted music to paying guests through hotel-room televisions can amount to communication to the public....
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