MUMBAI: The ninth edition of International Radio Festival (IRF) will be held from 29 October to 4 November 2018. This radio galore will be held at Valetta, Malta, which is Europe’s cultural capital for 2018.Having the niche of being the world’s first and sole conference, IRF’s first outing was at Z...
MUMBAI: There's change afoot in the Indian music industry. Quietly and almost unnoticed, a new organization has cropped up to licence and collect fees from the various telcos and streaming services. Called the Phonographic Digital Ltd (PDL) it was incorporated in March 2017, just as the financial year was coming to a close, with its registered office in Kolkata.
Earlier, the Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), which was headed by Vipul Pradhan as its CEO, was mandated to assign licences on behalf of its Indian label members to the various telecom operators like Airtel, JioMusic, Idea, Vodafone, and streaming services and collect royalties from them.
According to corporate filings, PDL has six directors -- Sovan Lal Saha, Atul Prasad Churamani, Mandar Ramesh Thakur, Durgaram Kanaram Choudhary, Sajjan Kumar and Dewal Prashar. Pradhan is slated to continue as CEO with Saha wearing the hat of PDL chairman.
The PPL will continue as in the past to be a collection organization for public performance of sound recordings from establishments, events and radio.
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court passed an order on 27th November, 2020 that mandates pubs, clubs, bars, resorts and similar establishments across the country to get a music license from PPL India (Phonographic Performance Limited) in order to play music on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have gone onto sending an advisory to all private satellite TV channels asking them to be cautious about content that may encourage or incite violence or contains anything against the maintenance of law and order or which promote anti-national
MUMBAI: Today, Indian Performing Right Society Limited (“IPRS”) and Dataclef are pleased to announce a significant expansion of their services agreement, growing their business relationship from claiming and reports processing to comprehensive back office and rights management services including
