The Bombay High Court restrained several hotels, pubs and restaurants in the city from playing a list of popular film and non-film music during its Christmas and New Year's Eve functions, unless they pay licence fee and secure copyright permissions from music licensing body Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL).

Founded in 1941, PPL India describes itself as a performance rights organisation that holds performance licence to over 25 lakh songs assigned to it by over 340 music labels in Hindi, English and other languages. The organisation recently moved HC to get continuation of orders passed last December against hotels and restaurants.