Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Cricket Limited on Monday (March 16, 2026) told the Madras High Court that it would approach music licensing agencies such as Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) and Novex Communications to obtain license for using Rajinikanth starrer Jailer and Coolie songs in its promos but the producer of those movies Sun TV Network Limited should not interfere in the process.
In an affidavit filed before Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, CSKCL Managing Director Kasi Viswanathan alias K.S. Viswanathan, 73, said, the cricketing company had been using songs, dialogues, and music from those movies in its promos for quite a few years but Sun TV Network did not raise any objection till March 1, 2026.
However, immediately after the receipt of the objection, the company had removed all the copyrighted materials from the promos and informed the movie production house too on the same day, the MD said. The affidavit filed through senior counsel P.S. Raman, stated that CSKCL had also made it inaccessible for the promotional videos to be transmitted further either within or outside the social media portals.
A copy of the affidavit, served upon senior counsel J. Ravindran representing Sun TV Network, read: “The first defendant (CSKCL) hereby undertakes to hereinafter not display, show, upload, exhibit, play, use, any of the sound recordings or musical works including the songs set out in the Schedules to the plaint in the promotions, marketing and/or updates that it prepares in connection with the first defendant, till such time that it acquires the license and/or legal rights to use the same.”
