Film lyricists stand up for their copyrights

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Many well-known lyricists of the Hindi film industry are in a rage. The
reason: the rather unpoetic licence taken by a publisher who has published
their works without their knowledge or consent. The object of their anger is
a hardcover, glossy, self-proclaimed 'encyclopaedia of music' which offers
2,100 of the choicest Hindi film songs from over the years in six volumes.
They have recently found out that this set of books, titled ' Music Masti-An
Encyclopaedia of Music ', priced at Rs 2,500, has been selling across India
as well as in the US , UK and Canada , since 1998. It has been published by
Jyotsana Paresh Shah and is in its third edition now. All the lyricists
whose works feature in this set, from Naqsh Lyallpuri to Gulzar, allege that
their lyrics have been 'stolen'-or used in defiance of the Copyright Act
(1957).

Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/544840.cms