Flamboyant singer Sonu Nigam seems to be in a dire situation regarding the Copyright Act issue between the producers, the music composers and the lyricists.
Apparently a section of the media had misquoted what he spoke at a recent meeting convened to discuss an amicable solution for the issue. Sonu blogged about this saying, “All the producers, director, composers, lyrics writers present in the meeting, are witness to the fact that I never spoke about singers to get 25% Royalties. That's a misquote by the media. Its the composers and lyrics writer's royalties that are confiscated by the music companies 100%, and all we all were proposing was a fair split where in the producer being the funder, gets 50% and rest 50% split between the composers and the lyrics writers!”
He added that a famous actor whom he considered his favourite actor, had secretively proposed to someone that the people involved with music, be paid 1% of the royalty.
Beleaguered by this, Sonu annoyingly blogged “I have anyways decided to live outside this country, a country that is too shy to give its artistes, their dues doesn't deserve purists like myself! No wonder Ravishankarji, Zakirbhai, etc live abroad.”
Adding more in his blog, he pitied the future artistes in India because of this ‘feudalistic’ treatment towards the Copyright Act. All that the music listeners in India will hope for is peace and proper amendments in the act where all the parties involved are in a win-win situation. Cheer up Sonu!
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