Come next Navratri, Garba organisers better be beware for every time they play a song, they will have to pay royalty to the singer if efforts of Indian Singers' Rights Association (ISRA) bears fruits.
The organisation ensure that the royalties due to the singers are paid every time a song is played anywhere.
Sanjay Tandon, CEO of ISRA who was in the city to start a Gujarat chapter of the organisation said that so far they have 422 members from across the country of which only 20 to 22 singers are from Gujarat.
When asked about Garba songs being played at venues and whether ISRA would seek royalties on behalf of the singers, Tandon said it was too late this year. "But we are trying to get more singers from Gujarat to register with us. We will ensure that they get royalties for their songs, even Garba songs, from next year," said Tandon.
Up Till March 2018, the organization has collected Rs 1.81 crore by way of royalty and has distributed the said royalty to 730 singers.
Explaining how the systems works, Tandon said that any organisation, person or event playing a song has to pay a pre decided royalty to the singer as per the amendment to the Copyright Act which came into force from June 21, 2012. "Many people including restaurants that play songs are unaware of it. We have prepared a rate card for the songs and the person playing it pays the royalty to us. We in turn pay whatever royalty is collected to the singer whose song was played," said Tandon.
He said that the royalty for songs fall under two categories logged and unlogged. "Logged categories are events where a song is played and the organisers not only pay the royalty but also gives us a list of songs played. Since we know the songs that were played the royalty so collected is given to the signers of only those songs," said Tandon. He said under unlogged categories, the organisation pays a royalty for a whole year for songs played. "These are often restaurants and such which cannot keep track of the songs they played so they pay a certain amount and this is distributed as royalty to all the members registered with ISRA," said Tandon.
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