Hi Chums, I guess its the second time I am posting a topic related to a fone call and a query. Hope, any moderator is not getting annoyed with this.
I got a call thru blog, from Delhi inquiring to shed more lights on A R Rahman and his music rights. A team of media students is doing a documentary on ".Intellectual Property Rights in Cultural Production in India". They also forwarded a mail to me. Can I redirect the media people to this Group. I am pasting the mail below. Please let me know if anyone can help, so that I can update them :) ========================================================== Dear Farsad, i had spoken to you last night around 9 pm asking for information regarding how to get in touch with Mr. AR Rahman. Just to give a brief idea of our project... we are researching on Intellectual Property Rights in Cultural Production in India. the idea is to generate a body of work (text and visual) which will be a primer for anyone interested in knowing about IPR in the area of culture. We had come across a news item (from 2006) which had mentioned that Mr. AR Rahman had withdrawn from the feature film Om Shanti Om since T-series the music company was not inclined to share a few rights with Mr. AR Rahman. We were particularly struck by a statement of Mr. AR Rahman, reproduced below... Music companies must recognise the changing ground reality. Today the conventional outlets for music sales are drying up. Soon all music will be free while the performers and performances will be paid for." We feel that a meeting with Mr. AR Rahman would be very very useful for our research. Further internet search revealed your blog and that is the reason i had called you. Could you please email me either Mr. AR Rahman's email address (to which we can directly write to him) or the telephone number of his personal staff who can help us out with an interview with him. Looking forward to hearing from you. ========================================================== I dont personally know A R Rahman. Is anyone can help, please update this thread, so that I can update them to contact you via email. Best Regards, Farzad Khaleel www.rahmaniac.co.nr
