Thanks Madhavan for posting this. This is important.... I think Gopal would take this news to AR...
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Madhavan Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Atlast here's a good news and a bad news - Good news for music > directors who try to be Original (Like ARR, Shankar Eshaan Loy, etc) and Bad > news to music companies. > > TIPS faces $320,000 charges for the lack of creativity of music director > Pritam. Pritam has blatantly ripped the song "Deep in the Bamboo Groove" > that belonged to Taiwanese singer Wang Lee-hom. He has ripped this for the > song "Zara Zara" in the movie "Race". Since the complete ownership/royalty > of the Race songs were with the music production company TIPS, they now face > a serious law suit...ARR has been fighting for royalty / ownership for the > musicians' creative work... But let's hope that atleast after these kind of > bad incidents, music companies think twice and come to a decision to share > the ownership to the musicians. Whatever be the reason, if this happens then > it's good for composers like ARR and Shankar Eshaan Loy. > > Here's the story from NDTV! > > http://music.ndtv.com/story.asp?id=ENTEN20080060353 > Indo-Asian News Service > > Wednesday, August 6, 2008: (Taipei) : > Taiwanese singer Wang Lee-hom has accused an Indian filmmaker of > plagiarising his music and is seeking $320,000 in damages. > > Lee-hom, 33, a US-born singer popular in Southeast Asia, is seeking damages > from Tips Films, distributor of the Hindi film*Race*, which was released > in March, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Ltd said in a statement. > > "The lead song in *Race* - *Zara Zara touch me*, resembles Wang's song *Deep > in the bamboo grove* (Chu Lin Shen Chu). Its rhythm and tempo are similar > to that of *Deep in the bamboo grove*. The similarity is nearly 100 > percent," added the statement. > > Sony BMG said it reserves the right to take legal action against > distributor of*Race* for plagiarism. > > In the film, *Zara Zara touch me* was picturised on Saif Ali Khan and > Katrina Kaif. > > *Race*, also starring Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Sameera Reddy and > Bipasha Basu, has been showcased in India, the US, Britain, Australia and > Malaysia and its original soundtrack has also been released in these > countries. > > *Deep in the bamboo grove* is part of Wang's album *The Sun and Moon in My > Heart*, a collection of 12 Chinese-language songs released in Dec 2004. > > The song mixes a Tibetan woman's singing with hip hop and Chinese drums and > flute. > > Cheers, > Madhavan.R > Love, Music, Peace,...and A R Rahman for Life. > > > -- regards, Vithur ARR -- The Sweet Cube always
