: Ilayaraja has engaged in significant legal battles to assert his authority over his compositions, reclaiming rights from music labels and distributors who sold his work digitally without permission. Moral Rights

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Ilaiyaraaja revolutionized South Indian film music in the late 1970s by seamlessly blending Western classical orchestration with Indian folk and Carnatic traditions.

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