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Mr.Umesh Gupta , MD, ADITYA MUSIC in an exclusive chat with The IMI Editor Sudhir Shreedharan.

Mr.Umesh Gupta, MD, ADITYA MUSIC

..."This year we will launch the movie production division of ADITYA MUSIC in the market by producing Telugu Films initially and then slowly expand to the other regional film markets in South India"....

..."very soon you will ADITYA MUSIC aggressively pitched in the Classical Music market. In fact all our titles are ready and this month itself you will see our first release.."...

..."there are no direct exports from our company to the US & Canada, but indirectly it touches our consumers in these countries and we feel the direct affect on our sales figures.."...

..."The strategy is you have to keep buying new movies to push your old catalogue. Our dealer buys small numbers of old catalogue with new movies If you don’t have new movies your old catalogue will badly suffer"...

..."high pricing is one of the reasons for piracy."...

"... IMI has helped maintain the sales of every music company in India..."

..."due to the IMI's efforts that today there is a fear in the minds of the pirates in the whole of Andhra Pradesh...."

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IMI keen on 'CONTINUOUS CHENNAI CLEANSING'. Yet again November witnessed MASS RAIDS all over CHENNAI.

After the successful spate of mass raids in October, yet again in Novemeber2007, Chennai saw pirates being punished mercilessly by the IMI team. Despite heavy pressures on resources, the IMI team has been coming down ruthlessly on pirates all across Chennai and has recovered material worth several lakhs of rupees in the last quarter of 2007. Not one to rest on its glory, official sources from the IMI team have assured 'Continuous Chennai Cleansing' in the new year.

The major catches on 2 consecutive days in November 2007 were :-                                     

24th November :  Simultaneous raids were conducted on 5 vendors in Ambattur, T. Nagar and Saidapet area of Chennai on 24th November.  727 MP3 CDs and 2198 pirated DVDs were seized.  5 persons were arrested and remanded to 15 days judicial custody. (Value approx. 2.9 lakhs)

25th November :  5 vendors were searched in Ambattur and Salinganallur area of Chennai on 25th November.  630 MP3 CDs and 2176 pirated DVDs were seized.  5 persons were arrested and remanded to 15 days judicial custody (Value approx. 2.8 lakhs).

 

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IMI focuses on Non - Physical Piracy especially Public Performances

Saxena with senior police officials of Punjab

IMI Anti-Piracy Team Chief, Mr.Saxena (3rd from right) with senior police officials of Punjab

 

On the ocassion Mr. Savio D'Souza, Secretary General of the IMI said "The IMI is known for its reputation for taking action against physical format piracy and have registered more than 10,000 cases. Now we are widening our spectrum even to public performances or usage of music during public events. Usage of music during Public performances or public events without the licence of the copyright holder amounts to infringement of copyright. The legal sections applicable to physical forms of piracy as well as to non physical piracy like Public performances are the same." ... click here for full story

On being probed about the revenues from Goa during the festive season of Christmas and The New Year's, Mr.Pradhan of The PPL refused to comment on official figures of license revenues but issued a diplomatic statement - "An immediate effect of this training seminar is that our revenues for all other states inclusive of Goa have gone up by more than 5 times." .... Read More

 

 

The Indian Music Industry - 2007.  Content Conceptualised, Collected, Crafted & Cared by DREAM-FACTORY