Akhtar Rescripts Copyright Law
Akhtar Rescripts Copyright Law
This chapter details the background to the revolutionary Copyright (Amendment), Act, 2012, which aimed to radically alter the equations in the Indian music industry. This story begins at the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS), a copyright society, which was taken over from composers and lyricists by some of the biggest music labels in India. The takeover happened through a series of orders from an obscure court located in Barasat, West Bengal. The edging out of composers and lyricists from the management of IPRS provoked a counterattack by lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar. He took it upon himself to lead Indian lyricists and poets in a successful lobbying effort, which pitted the creative community against the moneybags who controlled the production houses and music labels. The end result of this lobbying effort was the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012, which provided the composers and lyricists with powerful new rights.
Keywords: Javed Akhtar, music, Bollywood, lyrics, music label, Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS), ringtones, copyright society, Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012, soundtrack
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
