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Javed Akhtar wins the fight for Copyright Amendment Bill

Javed Akhtar wins the fight for Copyright Amendment Bill

The well-known lyricist-writer’s efforts to ensure better treatment to the literary community have paid off. The Rajya Sabha has passed the much-talked about bill amending copyright laws in the country For a while now, Javed Akhtar had been fighting for the rights of writers, lyricists,

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May 18 2012, 12:16 pm

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Lata Mangeshkar backs Javed Akhtar in the fight to secure royalty rights

Lata Mangeshkar backs Javed Akhtar in the fight to secure royalty rights

Bollywood's Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar says she is totally with Javed Akhtar in his fight to secure royalty rights for singers and lyricists "I'm a 110 percent with Javed Saab. My only fear is, how will he cope with all the backlash coming his way from producers and music companies who

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May 21 2012, 11:30 am

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Film writers fight against illegal contract

Film writers fight against illegal contract

The Film Writers' Association (FWA) is on a mission to curb TV channels’ malpractice of forcing a writer, composer and lyricist to give up an integral royalty right for a paltry sum of Rs 5,000. This practice not only devalues a writer’s importance in a project they work on but also infringes

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October 3 2012, 10:25 am

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