awesome! really happy to see this group also becoming a "Really useful
group" :d
On 9/27/07, edwardian10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Gops,
>
> So the groups has JUST achieved a breakthrough. So A.R.Rahman will be
> credited each time the video is played or the song from this album is
> mentioned. Great. ARR can be proud of the group :)
>
> However, I still won't buy the argument that Universal Music had
> originally intended to credit ARR. I say this because they never
> sought ARR's permission to begin with and that's why he and his legal
> advisors were informed only by this group. ARR reserved the right to
> say NO. However, they have gone ahead, recorded the song, made the
> video, played it many times and NOW at the end they are saying they
> would give credit to ARR. What would they do if ARR says NO THANK YOU
> i cant permit you to use my tune which I am sure ARR would never do.
> Just wondering.
>
> Thanks Gops anyways for breaking the good news. Since I wrote the
> second email in resopnse, saying it was International piracy since
> the song was also included in ALW's Bombay Dreams cd, I hope my email
> was one of those forwarded to A.R.Rahman. Just tell him edwardian 10
> means Jawad Babar :P
>
> Thanks,
> Jawad.
>
> In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com <arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com>, Gopal
> Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to some of our vigilant fans here who spotted this early
> enough and wrote to the group. Vijay forwarded your emails to ARR and
> ARR's legal advisors and Andrew Lloyd Webber's THe Really Useful
> Group took it up with Universal Music who are releasing the Kelly
> Poon album. Universal's contention is that they will include credits
> to ARR in the album which only releases on Sep 28. They claim that
> the video and song on air in Singapore is only a promotional
> release. While we don't know if they cleaned up their act after being
> questioned or had the right intentions to begin with, all's well that
> ends well.
> >
> > Thanks once again and please remain on the lookout for such
> incidents in future. It's nice to have contributed something
> meaningful rather than ranting and raving all the time :-)
> >
> >
> > The artist has credited A R Rahman by means of a small
> wording at the
> > bottom of her MTV Asia music video (you can follow to a link from
> this
> > page www.davimcicode. blogspot. com this is a Singapore Tamil Radio
> DJ's
> >
> > blog)
> >
> > But not sure whether she has bought the rights or sought permission
> > from the copyright holders. If not, she is in trouble.
> > Because BOMBAY DREAMS cd itself clearly credits the copyright
> holders
> > of the audio of NAYAK for reusing their tune. Kelly Poon oughts to
> do
> > so.
> >
> > Please bring this matter to ARR as people should not make quick
> bucks
> > from using ARR music without doing the necessary,
> > for now we can be proud that our Rahman's music is reaching newer
> > hights.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Save all your chat conversations. Find them online.
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