Mr. Sachin Chaudhary, learned counsel for respondents 1, 2 and 3, as well as Mr. J.C. Bhat, learned counsel for respondents 6, 7 and 8, and Mr. J.L. Nain, learned counsel for respondent 19, who followed Mr. Chaudhary have on the other hand submitted that the dispute in the instant case, according to the petition of appeal, the judgment of the Copyright Board and the judgment of the Calcutta High Court is confined to the sound track associated with a cinemato graph film (which expression, according to Copinger and Skone James on COPYRIGHT, means "any record of sounds which is incorporated in any print, negative, tape or other arti cle on which the film or part of it, in so far as it con sists of visual images, is recorded, or which is issued by the maker 214 Of the film for use in conjunction with such an article"); that the contention advanced on behalf of the appellant that copyright in a literary or musical work incorporated in the sound track of a cinematograph film vests in the composer of literary or musical work and when the cinematograph film is performed i.e. exhibited in public, the composer is entitled to fee or royalty in that behalf and since the appellant is the assignee of the copyright from the composers, it has the right to collect the fee or royalty is entirely unfound ed; that unlike (the law) in England, in India unless a music is notationally written, printed or graphically repro duced, it is not musical work within the meaning of the and there is no copyright 'in songs or orches tral pieces sung or played directly without its notation being written ' that since a 'cinematograph film ' is defined in section 2(f) of the 'Act as including the sound track and the 'cinematograph ' is required to be construed to include any work produced by any process analogous to cine matography, the owner of the cinematograph film is the firt owner of the copyright therein including the right of the composer of the literary or musical work incorporated in the sound track of the film; that in the case of the film in which a lyric (which literally means a short poem directly expressing the poet 's own thoughts and sentiments in stan zas falling within the purview of the expression "literary work" as defined in section 2(0) of the Act) has been plagiarised, there will be copyright in the film vesting in the producer; that the Act confers a separate copyright on a cinematograph film as a film, its author under section 2(d)(v) of the Act being the owner of the film at the time of its completion; that in the case of a lyric or music incorporated in the sound track of a cinematograph film, since under section 2(f) of the Act, cinematograph film includes its sound track and section 13(1)(b) of the Act confers copyright on the cinematograph film and section 14(c) (ii) of the Act confers on the owner of copyright the.