It is not practical for every author or owner to keep a track of all the uses of their work. These changes include mandatory royalty-sharing provisions, statutory licensing regime for broadcasters, a new scheme for copyright societies, a safe harbour provision for internet intermediaries, etc.Ĭopyright societies are formed to collectively administer the works of authors and owners of such works. The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012, brought in sweeping changes to the existing Copyright Act, 1957.
In most cases, such claims lead to a torrent of confusion and litigation. You can find everything you want to find in it, with almost every stakeholder finding clauses and rules that justify her motive. They say the Indian copyright law is a sticky subject. The composer may be entitled to his share of the royalty. Performers have their own copyrights as per law. Many copyright lawyers felt that Ilayaraja’s position was untenable. Everybody was confused about who owned the song. This created a huge controversy, and it was time for the Tamil music industry to discuss how royalties should be shared between musicians, lyricists and singers. SPB had to stop performing songs composed by Ilayaraja. There was a wave of shock when he served a legal notice on singer SP Balasubrahmanyam (SPB), who has given a huge number of hits with the composer when he was performing concerts in the US. The composer also filed cases against karaoke apps, TV, FM channels, film director Shankar (of 2.0 fame) and whoever he thought had wronged him. He managed to get injunctions against several companies from using his music. They had sold the music rights to other companies illegally. The Echo Recording Company, with which producers of various films had entered into agreements, had not paid him royalty. In 2010, he lodged a complaint with the Chennai police that a private firm had commercially exploited his music without his knowledge. His complaint is that he has not received his rightful dues and has been cheated over royalty payments. The composer has been highly litigious in the past few years, fighting for the rights over his music. He continues to be worshipped by his fans, who are legion, and who refer to him as the maestro. He brought freshness into film music, provided hits constantly till he slowed down with the arrival of AR Rahman and a slew of new composers. He is possibly the world’s most prolific composer, having composed over 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,000 films, and performed in more than 20,000 concerts. Ilayaraja came into the Tamil film industry in 1976, and became its demigod.
Telugu360 is always open for the best and bright journalists.Many hearings later, the Madras High Court delivered its verdict recently. SPB said that he will obey the notice and will continue his tour by performing other singers compositions. SPB responded on this issue in a modest way through his social media blog and said that his troupe has refrained from performing Illayaraja’s songs.
All the organisers and managements of all venues too have received notices from Illayaraja not to host the concerts which feature his compositions.
He along with singers Chitra and Charan have been entertaining the audience by performing compositions of various musicians.įew days back, Illayaraja sent legal notices to SPB and his troupe for performing his songs without prior permission. SP Balasubramanyam, who completed a staggering feat of 50 glorious years as singer, is currently on a world tour to give a thanksgiving concert in countries like Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Srilanka and Dubai to name a few. Once a legendary combination – Maestro Ilayaraja and renowed singer SP Balasubramanyam are no longer in good terms.