MUMBAI: After the much hyped spat between singer Sonu Niigaam and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra over royalty share for singers at the last Copyright panel committee meeting early this week, the singer bared his heart on a social networking site. Niigaam posted a note this morning talking about the copyright issue and suppressed state of creative artistes in the country. Read on-
Wake Up India from the slumber - Sonu Niigaam
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 per cent Royalties. That's a misquote by the media. Its the composers and lyrics writer's royalties that are confiscated by the music companies 100 per cent, and all we all were proposing was a fair split where in the producer being the funder, gets 50 per cent and rest 50 per cent split between the composers and the lyrics writers! How much more fair anyone wants us to get when in the rest of the world, 100 per cent goes to the composers and lyrics writers.!! We are not even discussing singers at this point.!
My favorite actor, whom I consider like my spiritual elder brother, who is known to be fair generally,.. just proposed to someone secretively, forget it....give these guys one per cent..... What a magnanimous contribution!! My favorite actor!!!! Wow!! God bless all of them. 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. I only feel bad for the future artistes, who will have to be subjected to this feudalistic arm twisting, if proper amendments are not made now. And the people who treat music as prayer and not a glamour driven activity.. Wake up India from the slumber!!
Love,
Sonu Niigaam
MUMBAI: After the much hyped spat between singer Sonu Niigaam and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra over royalty share for singers at the last Copyright panel committee meeting early this week, the singer bared his heart on a social networking site. Niigaam posted a note this morning talking about the copyright issue and suppressed state of creative artistes in the country. Read on-
Wake Up India from the slumber - Sonu Niigaam
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 per cent Royalties. That's a misquote by the media. Its the composers and lyrics writer's royalties that are confiscated by the music companies 100 per cent, and all we all were proposing was a fair split where in the producer being the funder, gets 50 per cent and rest 50 per cent split between the composers and the lyrics writers! How much more fair anyone wants us to get when in the rest of the world, 100 per cent goes to the composers and lyrics writers.!! We are not even discussing singers at this point.!
My favorite actor, whom I consider like my spiritual elder brother, who is known to be fair generally,.. just proposed to someone secretively, forget it....give these guys one per cent..... What a magnanimous contribution!! My favorite actor!!!! Wow!! God bless all of them. 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. I only feel bad for the future artistes, who will have to be subjected to this feudalistic arm twisting, if proper amendments are not made now. And the people who treat music as prayer and not a glamour driven activity.. Wake up India from the slumber!!
Sonu is grossly misinformed. He doesn't have any idea of publishing business and revenue splits. Top line composers charge more than 1 crore upfront to compose music and lyricist charge more than 25 lacs to write 5 songs.
Here starts the "emotional blackmail" from the BEST SINGER in India today! Let us not complicate things and create emotional euphoria by resorting to such statements wherein Sonuji says that he has decided to stay outside this country. Now some media person will blow this out of proportion and we will have millions of people voicing their opinion about which they know nothing and are not a part. Let us discuss this with a level headed debate spanning all the regions in India and ALL THE STAKE HOLDERS - DO NOT LET THE BIG NAMES WHO ARE IN THE PUBLIC EYE ALONE DECIDE WHAT SHOULD BE DONE !!
Thats really astonishing & shameful to hear about the condition of the composers & writers in the biggest film industry of the world. we all shud support sonu nigam's efforts in getting a proper & appropriate justice to the music composers & writers fraternity for the sake of their future.
