The Cultural Cell of the West Bengal BJP on Monday alleged that two Mumbai-based corporations, with the assistance of some influential lobbies, are illegally amassing cash from non-profit personal musical occasions comparable to weddings within the identify of royalty.

However, neither the ruling Trinamool Comngress-run authorities within the state nor the police is performing in opposition to them, state BJP Cultural Cell convenor and actor Rudranil Ghosh informed a press convention.

Ghosh claimed these two Mumbai-based personal entities that mission themselves as corporations safeguarding copyright points wouldn’t have the authorized authority to take action.

He referred to a latest discover issued by the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry about receiving a number of complaints in regards to the alleged assortment of such royalties from festivities related to occasions like weddings. On July 24, the central authorities’s Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade mentioned in a discover that enjoying Bollywood music at weddings and related festivities won’t result in copyright infringement motion. The Copyright Act of 1957 had beforehand decided that music was legally permissible to play at such features, however copyright corporations issued calls for for license charges, resulting in disputes and monetary pressure on organisers. Ghosh mentioned many small-time musicians, who rely on such features get solely Rs 10,000-20,000 per operate, however the organisers need to shell out lakhs of rupees to those corporations.

”We are asking these behind this sport of amassing royalty from non-commercial, non-profiting and non-ticketing” personal or small get-togethers to chorus from doing this. Otherwise, we can be pressured to take up the difficulty with the Union authorities and motion can be adopted,” he mentioned.

The BJP chief requested, ”Why ought to a household organising a wedding occasion at a lodge need to pay Rs 9-10 lakh which is sheer extortion within the identify of the Copyright Act?” The function of inns in observe also needs to come beneath scanner, he mentioned.

To a query, Ghosh claimed he’s not talking on behalf of any political occasion however on behalf of everybody who has been affected.

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