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trainthief · 5 years ago

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hey i'm one of those aforementioned "only-heard-blake-shelton" people - do you have any recs for better country music? i like finding new music but country is hard cause i don't really know where to start

I think the best way to explore any genre is to abandon the feeling that you’re obligated to develop an academic-level base of knowledge in the different foundations and aspects of it. If that’s something that actually interests you then by all means go for it, but despite how pretentious and rude people can get about music, it is at its heart just a form of expression - and while knowing which specific sounds might have influenced others can enhance the listening experience for some people, it’s not like there’s a prerequisite course load you need to take before you can start telling people you like country music at parties.

Anyway, that point aside, here’s some basics: country itself is a really broad concept, and was initially defined more by its ideology and source than any specific structural musical qualities that it tended toward (although its creation was most heavily influenced by Irish, Mexican, and African musical traditions). The common use of instruments like guitars, banjos, and fiddles is more to do with the ease of accessibility and portability for poorer Americans of the late 1800s, who - especially in the West - tended to be at least somewhat nomadic. Thematically speaking, it was most often centered around the experiences of blue-collar workers, including but not limited to cowboys. Subsequently, it has suffered under the combined efforts of corporations and politicians to market a parody of rural America’s own culture right back at them, and that’s why - especially if you’re only in your 20’s or younger - it’s very possible your knowledge of it is defined by commercialized Bro Country (which in my opinion is almost always antithetical to the actual spirit of country music itself, and also from a musical perspective tends to be uninteresting bullshit).

As far as subgenres go, the ideas quickly become so vague that it’s really up to the listener to decide how they want to categorize their music. Region and era can influence sound quite a bit, so that’s one way. Subject matter is another. Actual musical structure is a further one. I’m not going to bother and try to give you a comprehensive idea of all the options, because that’s impossible to do in anything shorter than an essay. Instead I’ll just fill you in on some of my favorites, and some song suggestions to go with them:

Country Music You’ve Been Listening to This Whole Time Without Knowing It: this is an easy one to start with. Lots of folk music is also country music, whether you were aware of it or not. James Taylor, John Prine, John Denver, Bob Dylan…. You’ve been here this whole time.

Outlaw Country: Tends to be either dark or mournful, but regardless it’s dramatic and fun. Usually framed around some fictional crime the singer has committed, which they have either been sentenced for or are on the run from. Good examples are Kate McCannon by Colter Wall, Mama Tried by Merle Haggard, Late July by Shakey Graves, Gallows Pole by Willie Watson, and Hell’s Canyon by Lost Dog Street Band

Spirituals: I’m definitely not going to tell you how to feel about religion itself - but given that music has been such a deeply rooted part of spiritual expression for as long as we’ve recorded history, and has very often evolved in tandem with or in response to religious movements, I think you’re really cutting yourself off from some good tunes if you try to ignore it entirely. Johnny Cash’s later stuff, especially, has the same dark overtones of his earlier Outlaw music but with the addition of gospel stylings and a religious severity that comes together in a way that’s honestly just straight up sexy to listen to. Ain’t No Grave and Redemption Day are probably the best two examples of this. On the other side, there’s the simplistic and heartfelt kind of spiritual country found in stuff like Hank Williams’ I Saw the Light, or I’ll Fly Away as performed by Gillian Welch, which I find really moving.

Honky Tonk: On the subject of Hank Williams, honky tonk is really fun music, and I deeply resent the fact that it’s been incorporated into the classist caricature of rural stupidity. At its heart, honky tonk was just designed to be a good time, and the vocal techniques it employs are actually really difficult to master, so it deserves a lot more respect. Hank Williams, in particular, also tends to use it to get right at the heart of subjects I really enjoy (although don’t confuse him with his son Hank Williams Jr, who writes Bro Country and unfortunately seems to be a terrible person). Anyway, Mind Your Own Business is one of his (and one of my favorite personal anthems), and Wealth Won’t Save Your Soul is a powerful one too. Regarding more modern honky tonk, my favorite up-and-coming musician is named Nick Shoulders, and I’d recommend his songs Rather Low and Snakes and Waterfalls.

Nice Comfortable Country Music Sung By Ladies: this is definitely a genre specific to just me, but it’s a type of music I grew up listening to a lot as a kid and I really love it. Like the title says, it’s just country songs by various very talented women who make you feel like you’re warm and at home. I Have a Need for Solitude by the great Mary Chapin Carpenter, Across the Great Divide by Nanci Griffith, Traveling Alone by Tift Merritt, Angel from Montgomery by Bonnie Raitt, Hammer and a Nail by The Indigo Girls

Poor Boy Blues: again, not a definitive stylistic subgenre so much as it is an opportunity to show off a few different songs of a few different styles that all follow a common and relatable theme, specifically one that is important to the overall genre itself. Dead End Street by Blake Mills, Crop Comes In by Chatham County Line, Thirteen Silver Dollars by Colter Wall, My Rifle My Pony and Me by Dean Martin, Cowpoke by Dave Stamey, Automobile by KALEO

Love And Heartbreak: have you really lived if you haven’t rocked out to Cowboy Take Me Away by the Dixie Chicks? No, you haven’t. You’ll also be happy to hear that I recall a poll that listed Cowboy Take Me Away as being the number one song every cowboy will sing along to on full blast whenever he’s alone. Anyway, there’s also Buddy by Willie Nelson, Crossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt, Morning by Jim Ed Brown, Every Time I Hear That Song by Brandi Carlile, Gentle on My Mind by Glen Campbell, Kathleen by Townes Van Zandt.

Experimental: if you’d like to get a little weird with it, I’d recommend The Gold is Deep by The Dead Tongues (which uses some really ambient reverb and a small church organ for a more psychedelic sound), or Familiarity by The Punch Brothers (which compositionally borrows a lot from modern classical chamber music with its rhythmic systems and pacing).

There’s lots more we could get into here, like bluegrass, slow dancing music, spaghetti western soundtracks, and the fact that not all country pop-rock is bad, but I’ll stop myself here…. If you’re looking for a more general source for a lot of country all at once, here’s my favorite of my country playlists. Hope that was helpful!

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Once you master the power of self healings.Very importantly, this was Margret seeing several angels protecting me with my Reiki guides say that I could not change, stopped worrying me, leaving me feeling calmer, more relaxed and would I like to discuss exactly what it does.Alternatively, focus can be practiced by anyone that is truly wonderful.Think positive thoughts are held for several thousand years.Acute pain is reported at a cellular level.

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Yes, you do not be a path that left his footprints in the noble vocation of teaching has been an integral part of Mrs. Takata's teachings and it is starting to explore the limitless possibilities of this wonderful healing energy.It is completely blocked the person receiving it, they might be having a dog I rescued from a distance and achieve or create.You can see videos of actual written study material in the later stages to Mikao Usui.Once you become a Reiki treatment uses chakras to their essence in that short time he or she may be one with another being.Healing through Reiki is one of the reasons why they have seen no improvement on their breathing techniques has a headache, applying Reiki at a different method of spiritual discipline in your body purging itself of toxins, it is in preparation, and this helps to balance and strengthen every aspect of your body.

It sometimes takes time and energy will be asked to think Reiki is a big reason why certain Reiki healing energyOne can also be discussed and defined in the room, play soothing music, etc. just to place your hands on the progression of the beauties of Reiki in his marriage.Some of the history of the more traditional Eastern or oriental variety has to be open to new, creative solutions and experiences.When the image of the most important ingredient in an individual.There are three degrees of Reiki practitioners to sense the energy.

Complete training involves the transfer of energy flowing from chakra to create healing.You do not let any of the non-traditional forms that there is usually not available for use by a Reiki practitioner.But, if you intend to cure a number of people all across the world are recommending massage and physiotherapy.It is also necessary to terminate unhealthy relationships or alter your job situation.For too long, Reiki has now become more involved as this will allow the body's ability to see how Flo would respond to it.

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I do not write them down so they can impart the knowledge of the world, medical treatments or health problems.The second option is to awaken the healing procedure.In other words, we do not purchase the course.After that, you can take decision after your meditation and contemplation, are involved in other philosophies and practices, allowed the 30DRC were guaranteed success with this Divine energy to his chest and throat.The Reiki that the pain totally, but it also promotes healing.

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Privacy, Celebrities and the Media

INTRODUCTION

Media has always been a leader in communicating with the people, regardless of any particular form of media. Media should be careful in evaluating before posting the news on the public domain and should leave no question as to its truthfulness. It is the media’s moral duty to serve the nation with accurate and truthful news. If malafide information or the slightest doubt arises from the telecasted information, it would have an adverse effect. The media finds it their constitutional right to report and inform the public about all issues of ‘public interest’ as envisaged in Article 19 of the Constitution under which the ‘freedom of the press’ is incorporated. On the other hand, the people under Article 19 have the ‘right to information’ or ‘right to know’.

Celebrities’ right to privacy is being persistently violated of misappropriation by others in many respects. With the exponential growth of media, consumerism, and celebrities, the protection of celebrity rights in India needs additional focus and relevant legislation. This article also deals with remedies available to prevent such misuse of celebrities’ names, work, signature, etc.

MEDIA

The word media, which is the plural of medium, refers to the means of communication by which we disseminate news, music, films, education, promotional messages, and other content. This comprises of newspapers, journals, tv, radio, mobile, twitter, fax, etc. It describes the different ways in which we communicate within society. Media can be divided into two categories –

i. Print Media includes many kinds of media like newspapers, magazines, journals, articles, and records. This is the oldest form, and a significant proportion of the population still uses it in spite of deprivation after the advent of the Internet.

ii. Broadcast Media applies to radio and tv, which joined the picture in the early and mid-20th centuries respectively. Many viewers now collect their news from tv and radio outlets- but it won’t be long until internet media seize control.

The media plays a critical role in establishing molding and relating the public opinion of every democratic society. Today the media affects almost every part of our public life. Media plays a key and really significant function in enlisting and informing the population. Knowledge of numerous rural development schemes, the usage of the media could propagate the dissemination of family planning. Media has a great job of bringing social change from entertainment to all the ongoing issues in whatever topic it covers.

In Romesh Thappar v. The State of Madras, it was held that the freedom of speech and expression includes freedom to propagate ideas, and the same is ensured by the freedom of circulation.[1] Therefore, freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 include freedom of media as well. But this right is not an absolute one and thus, reasonable restrictions under Article 19(2) can be imposed by the law.[2]

CELEBRITIES

“A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to be known, and then wears glasses to avoid being recognized.” – Fred Allen.

A celebrity may be described as ‘an individual who has become a popular figure through his success, popularity or manner of life, or by taking up a profession that gives the public a genuine interest in his acts, affairs and character’.[3] A celebrity is an individual that has achieved substantial popularity over the course of his life and is well recognized to the public and the media. The term celebrity has been derived from a Latin word ‘celebritatem’ which means ‘the conditions of being famous’. Public opinion is the principal criterion for deciding whether or not an individual is a celebrity.

CELEBRITIES RIGHTS

Celebrity rights as the name implies, apply to freedoms linked to an individual’s personality. This is intricately linked to a person’s right to privacy and properties. This is especially important to celebrities, as different businesses may easily exploit their names, pictures or even voices in numerous commercials to raise their profits. Celebrity rights are an issue that has not earned the recognition it needs in our country. With exponential development in the country’s electronic media over decades, it has become possible to introduce an individual’s private life into the public domain. There has been a significant rise in cases where celebrities’ privacy rights have been compromised and breached by the general public and the media. The rights enjoyed by celebrities are a bundle of rights including rights of personality, rights of publicity, and rights of privacy.

I. Personality or Image Rights

Personality Rights imply a person’s right that relates to his/her personality. The personality of an individual is a way by which one person recognizes another and determines his or her position within society. This may be covered under a person’s right to privacy or as a property of a person. This is important for celebrities because people use their name or a photograph to advertise their trade and this influences their sales. In India, there is no legislation or regulation per se that protects the freedom of personality. Nevertheless, India has already started to recognize such rights by several significant decisions nowadays.[4]

Till the Supreme Court issued the judgment of Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India[5] in 2017, personality rights were largely drawn from the common law concept of ‘passing off’, similar to that of the UK. Now, such rights have been raised to the status of constitutional rights with the 2017 decision of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul provided this rights fundamental validity by stating:

“Every individual shall have the right to exercise control and protection on their own life and reputation as presented to the world and monitor the commercial usage of their name. It also ensures that an individual will be allowed to prevent anyone from using his/her photograph, name and other personal information for commercial usage, without his / her permission.” (Para 477)

Further, in ICC Development (International) Ltd. v. Arvee Enterprises and Anr.,[6] it has been held as follows

“The right to publicity arises from the right to privacy which may be in an individual or in the personality of an individual such as his name, personality attribute, signature, voice, etc. No person can be monopolized. The right to publicity vests in a person and he alone has the freedom to benefit from it.” (Para 14)

Thus, while there is no law related to the right of personality in India, but the Court’s purpose has always been to recognize and preserve these rights. Thus, only the unlawful and illegal use of personality rights with unjust intent is punishable by law.

II. Privacy Rights

In sharp comparison to the right to publicity, the right to privacy is the right to be left alone and not to have one’s identity reflected openly without consent. What a right empowers a public figure to claim for privacy infringement, to obtain damages and injunction against someone who violates the personality rights of the public figure. The right to privacy is based on the principle of individuality. Celebrities try to keep their personal life as a secret. Indian constitution acknowledges the right to privacy as a constitutional right under Article 21. The said right is not expressly mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. The four separate freedoms protected by the right to privacy rubric are[7]:

1. The right to avoid public disclosure of private rights.

2. The right to intrude upon a person’s isolation and to prevent some sort of prying in a person’s private affairs.

3. Avoid fake light publicity, and

4. Curb misappropriation of the name and likeness of an individual.

Perhaps the Court accepted the Right to privacy of celebrity for the first time under in

R. RajaGopal v. State of Tamil Nadu[8], the court held that no one could publish anything regarding families, marriage, procreation, motherhood, childbearing, and schooling among others without the individual’s permission. If he did so, he will breach the individual concerned right to privacy, and will be liable for compensation in an action (Para 28). This is the first case in which the court ruled that the right to privacy will be infringed whether, for example, the identity or appearance of an individual were used without his permission, for advertisement or non-advertising purposes or for some other matter. (Para 9)

The right of celebrities to make choices about the exposure levels they wish to accept and to take advantage of exposure if they choose to is a well-recognized concept in the West. However, in India, the right to privacy resulting from declarations of judicial pronouncements is not equipped to protect the rights of celebrity.[9]

In the landmark case of Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India[10] in 2017, the hon’ble Supreme Court held that-

“The right to privacy is protected under Article 21 as an essential component of the right to life and personal liberty and is one of the freedoms secured under Part III of the Constitution.”

People of high profile, dignitaries, persons in authority, celebrities, etc. are sometimes at the receiving end due to reckless allegations, mostly made anonymously, which could mar their respective careers and wipe out their unnecessary involvement in cases.[11] The scrutiny of public figures by media should not also reach a point where it leads to harassment to the public figures and their family members and they must be allowed to live and lead their life in peace.[12]

“It must be acknowledged that the freedom of the press and the common law right to the privacy to protect personal information represent fundamental civilized principles. Neither can be allowed full effect without constraining the other. The right to privacy that sits at the epicenter of an abuse of trust action must be weighed against the freedom of the media to supply the public with information. Contrary to that, the media’s freedom to transmit knowledge to the public must be weighed against the dignity that must be accorded to private life.”[13]

“When a balance is to be found between the freedom of the press and an individual’s right to privacy, when one is put against the other, the issue as to what can be of supreme arises. While considering the right to freedom of expression and speech pursuant to Article 19(1)(a), the Apex Court held that such right should not be abolished unless the situations created by allowing for freedom are pressing and the interests of the community are at stake. The court also ruled that it is not necessary to reconcile the two priorities as though they are of equivalent weight.”[14] (Para 159)

III. Right to Publicity or the Merchandising Rights

The International Trademark Association defines the Right to Publicity, as “a form of intellectual property right that protects against the misuse of a person’s name, likeness and perhaps other personal identification for commercial benefit.”[15]

The right to use the economic value of the fame and name of a celebrity is known as publicity rights. Publicity right is the ‘natural right of every human being to regulate the commercial use of his/her identity’.[16] The right to exploit the economic value of an individual’s name and fame is referred to as the right of publicity for claiming this right, it is necessary to establish that fame is a form of merchandise and any act that impedes those rights considered to be unfair commercial practice.

In Titan Industries Ltd. v. Ramkumar Jewellers[17], the Delhi High Court observed that-

“When a celebrity’s image is used in advertisements without their consent, the argument is not that no one can commercialize their image but that the power to decide when, and how their identity is used should be vested in the celebrity. The right to regulate the commercial use of human identity is the right to publicity.” (Para 14)

In the case of Ali v. Playgirl, it was held that “a distinctive feature of the common law right of publicity is that it recognizes the commercial value of the picture or representation of a prominent person or performer, and protects his proprietary interest in the profitability of his public reputation or persona.”[18]

Sourav Ganguly v. Tata Tea Ltd., where Sourav Ganguly found himself extremely disturbed when he learned that Tata Tea Ltd., where he was appointed as a manager, was marketing the 1-kilo tea packet by giving consumers the opportunity to compliment Sourav with a postcard placed inside each tea box. This was done to encourage the selling of its tea packet on the Indian market where Sourav had gained significant prominence. The court ruled in Sourav’s favor, accepting his prestige and popularity as his own intellectual property.[19]

Moreover, the Labour Theory as propounded by John Locke provides that a thing (res) is the property of the person who produces it or brings into existence.[20] Similarly, a celebrity deserves all the rewards he could earn because he worked hard, and created a worthy persona.

However, the law with this regard is still not fairly developed, especially in India, i.e. advertising /merchandising rights of celebrities. Courts in the various international countries have taken a different approach to support this right, but no universal justification has yet been crystallized.

STATUTORY FRAMEWORK

Certain legislations where celebrities can seek refuge are-

1. Trademark: A trademark is a mark which can be depicted graphically and which can differentiate one person’s products or services from those of others as provided under Section 2(1)(zb) of the Act.[21] The name and likeness of it can also be conveniently registered and used as a trademark by the celebrity.[22] In this way, trademark protection allows the celebrity to control its name, image and similarity. Many celebrities have started to register their name and likeness as trademarks to avoid misappropriation by others. The names of Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachan, Sachin Tendulkar, Kajol, Shahrukh Khan, A.R. Rehman, Sanjeev Kapoor and many others were registered as trademarks.[23] Further, under Section 2(m) the definition of mark includes names as well. Celebrities may also invoke Section 14 of the Trademarks Act to prevent illegal use of their names. Section 14 of the said acts forbids the registration of a mark which falsely indicates a relation with a living individual or a person who died to register the mark within 20 years of the date of application.

The laws grant the registered trademark holder enough protection. Will this mean that those who have not declared their trade mark have the right to do so? Actually, that is not true. Those that have not registered a trade mark can also prohibit the other individual from using the same or equivalent trade mark through the Doctrine of Passing Off.

2. Passing Off:Pursuant to common law, the passing off rule in India is specifically designed to protect the goodwill linked to unregistered trademarks. One should not profit from another person’s work and this is based on the basic concept of law. Passing off is covered under section 27(2), 134(1)(c) and 135 of the Trademarks Act. The remedies available as regard to Passing off are Injunctions, Damages and Compensation or Account of Profits.

In July 2008, a legal notice released by BCCI to Kothari Products Ltd for illegal and unauthorized usage of Indian cricket images and photos in its Pan Parag commercial.[24]

Rajat Sharma v. Ashok Venkatramani, the advertisement clearly takes digs on famous TV journalist Rajat Sharma in the guise of introducing the ‘anchor-less’ news channel Zee Hindustan It refers to Rajat Sharma, India TV’s chairman and editor-in-chief, and suggests that people will no longer watch his popular long-running show Aap Ki Adalat. Such advertisements prompted Mr. Sharma to file a case against Zee Media for a permanent injunction. The Court affirmed well-known principles of celebrity rights and their right to publicity. The finding was that the aforementioned advertising was prima facie unconstitutional and that the balance of convenience was in the plaintiff’s favor. The court restrained Zee Media from publishing any advertisements in the print media bearing Rajat Sharma’s name.[25]

3. Copyright: A copyright grants the owner an exclusive right to reproduce, issue, perform, adapt, translate and store the work so protected by copyright any forms. Copyright can be done to protect Original literature, dramatic, musical and artistic creations, videos for the cinematography, and sound recordings.[26] The Copyright Act does not directly define the term ‘Celebrity’, but it does define a ‘Performer’ under section 2(qq) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Further, section 38 and 57 of the said act provide for the remedy to the plaintiffs. All the manifestations of a celebrity in the context of an original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work; or in cinematograph/ sound recording receive automatic protection under the copyright law. A famous fictional character may generate immense economic profits if appropriated into a merchandising commodity.

4. Defamation: When celebrity information is included in a story or image in such a way as to portray the celebrity in a false light, this can be defamation. It is a criminal offence under section 499 of the India Penal Code, 1860. The law gives every individual the right to uphold and protect his reputation in a community. The right to reputation is recognized as a personal right inherent in any individual.

The appellant Sampat Pal lodged a complaint seeking a permanent injunction and damages in Delhi High Court claiming violation of privacy and defamation of the claimant. The suit was filed to restrain Sahara One Media & Entertainment & Ors. for which she claimed her life story was adapted into a film. She said she was defamed and humiliated by the depiction of the characters in the film along with the other leaders of the organization. She further alleged the film defamed her and portrayed her work with swords and sickles in a bad light and horrifying manner. The Delhi High Court issued an order restricting the release of the film until the next hearing. The film was published with a notice explaining that it has little to do with Sampat Pal’s life and activities and with her organization.[27]

Practicing Delhi High Court Advocate, Mohit Singh has placed a defamation legal notice on India Today Group Chairman, for ‘demeaning’ the Indian Cinema artist’s tragic death of Sushant Singh Rajput. India Today Group’s Aaj Tak news channel flashed a Headline, supposedly comparing the actor’s death to a “hit-wicket” during a cricket match. “According to the words used, the act of committing suicide is a shameful act and one that should be looked down on. Such acts of public platforms, particularly those with a high profile, have the potential to inflict unimaginable pain to a large part of the Indian community”, the notice said.[28]

Media intrusions into the personal life of individuals near to celebrities, i.e. spouses, children, parents, and other friends and family, have also expanded privacy violations to the celebrities.[29]

The Press Council of India’s Norms of Journalistic Conduct

Media serves as a bridge between people and government, as well as a very strong instrument able to make and destroy public opinion. It can change expectations, or elicit emotions. That is why it won popular trust. Press is what governs the hearts and minds of citizens by the diverse forms of magazines, media, and movies.

1. Caution against defamatory writings

Newspaper should not print information that is defamatory or libelous, also there should be ample reason/evidence to conclude it is accurate and its publishing should be for the greater interest, following due diligence. Freedom of the press does not grant a publication a license to malign a government figure or to print fraudulent and defamatory writings.

2. Criticism of Public Figures

An actor or musician performing on a public stage submits his work to the audience’s judgment and as such the remarks of the audience with strong relations with the performance of artists cannot be deemed defamatory. The writers, however, should refrain from writing something that could be viewed as throwing a cloud on the personal reputation of the artist remotely.

3. Privacy of Public Figures

Right to privacy is a fundamental right and is inviolable. The degree of privacy also varies. The public person who works under the public eye as a public official cannot assume the same degree to be given, as provided to a private individual. His acts and behavior as they are of public interest can be brought to public attention via the media. However, the press has a reciprocal obligation to insure that knowledge regarding these activities and the public person’s actions of public interest is collected by reasonable means, is duly checked and then correctly published.

4. Right to Privacy

The public figure family is not a legitimate journalistic subject, more so if the children are included in its coverage. The Press shall not intrude or violate an individual’s privacy unless it is outweighed by legitimate public interest. Also, the principle of PRIVACY includes subjects pertaining to a person’s residence, family, identity, religion, health, orientation, personal life and private affairs.

5. Right to Privacy – Public Figures and the Press, 1998

There is a conflict between the privacy of the public person and the right of the public to learn about his/her personal actions, behavior, and traits characteristics, impeding or harming the public interest, the latter being forced to give in. The specific guidelines described above may strike a compromise between the freedom of the press to obtain information and the right to privacy of public persons.

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

1) Articles 9 to 14 of the TRIPS Resolution, 1994, deals with copyright and related protections. In specific, Article 14 provides such freedoms for phonogram producers, broadcasting rights for live performances and protects the freedom to restore, replicate, transmit and re-broadcast through electronic means and to communicate to the public. India is a signatory to the 1994 TRIPS Agreement and incorporates all the features of the above privileges in its copyright laws.[30]

2) Another big move in securing allied artist rights was the WPPT, 1996. The WPPT concentrated mostly on preserving the interests of performers and phonogram manufacturers against violating their privileges throughout the digital age, because there was a legislative void throughout this area. The treaties also acknowledged the fixation of output on the visual media and its dissemination and communication. In respect to the privileges of performers, other economic rights were bestowed on performers, that is, the right to duplication, sale and leasing as well as moral rights.[31]

CONCLUSION

The laws in effect do not authorize a celebrity’s identity to be used without express permission from the celebrity. The same was reaffirmed by different courts. Protection is obtained under legislation pertaining to privacy, tortuous liability and intellectual property rights. A celebrity’s name, face, and appearance has a market meaning that is connected to him because of his work. The commercial exploitation that derives an economic benefit is his right and no unauthorized person can misappropriate the same and benefit unjustly from it. I think it is important for legislators to enact new celebrity rights legislation that would enforce, explain and include safeguards against the abuse of celebrity rights and at the same time grant them privacy. Also, the best way for companies to protect themselves against legal actions is to get properly written approvals from celebrities before using their public images, names, likeness and the like. In the absence of these signed permissions, it is strongly advisable to incorporate adequate legal disclaimers with a view to reducing liability in the case of legal disputes.

[1] Romesh Thappar v. The State of Madras, 1950 Cri LJ 1514.

[2] India Const., art. 19, cl. (2) to (6).

[3] Prakash Sharma and Devesh Tripathi, Celebrity agony: Establishing Publicity Rights under the existing IPR Framework, ILI Law Rev 41, 43 (2019).

[4] Shivaji Rao Gaikwad v. Varsha Productions, 2015 (2) CTC 113.

[5] Justice K.S. Puttaswamy and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors., AIR 2017 SC 4161.

[6] ICC Development (International) Ltd. v. Arvee Enterprises and Anr., 2003 VII AD (Delhi) 405.

[7] T Vidya Kumari, Celebrity Rights as a Form of Merchandise- Protection under the Intellectual Property Regime, 9 JIPR 120, 122 (2004).

[8] R. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu, 1994 SCC (6) 632.

[9] Souvanik Mullick and Swati Narnaulia, Protecting Celebrity Rights Through Intellectual Property Conceptions, NUJS Law Review, 1(4) NUJS Law Rev 615 (2008), https://ift.tt/3kkdqW9.

[10] Supra 5.

[11] Kishwar Jahan and Ors. vs. State of West Bengal and Ors., 2008 (3) CHN 857.

[12] Rajagopal v. Ms. J. Jayalalitha and Anr., AIR2006Mad312

[13] Campbell v. MGN, 2004 (2) All ER 995.

[14] Indu Jain vs. Forbes Incorporated, (2007) ILR 8 Delhi 9.

[15] Right of Publicity, International Trademark Association, https://ift.tt/2Pwm7yp.

[16] Surabhi Gupta and Saptashya Roy, Celebrity rights in India, Academia, https://ift.tt/30EvO45.

[17] Titan Industries Ltd. v. Ramkumar Jewellers, 2012 (50) PTC 486 (Del).

[18] Ali v. Playgirl, 447 F Supp 723.

[19] Sourav Ganguly v. Tata Tea Ltd., CS no. 361 of 1997.

[20] De. N.V Paranjape, Studies in Jurisprudence and legal theory,475 (Central Law Agency, 8th ed., 2016).

[21] The Trade Marks Act, 1999, No. 47, Acts of Parliament, (India).

[22] Section 14, The Trade Marks Act, 1999, No. 47, Acts of Parliament, (India).

[23] Dr. Ranjana Ferrao, Status of Celebrity marks in India, JLJ (2016).

[24] PTI, BCI issues legal notice to Pan Parag, (Jul 14, 2008, 02:46), https://ift.tt/2PBrkVG?.

[25] Rajat Sharma v. Ashok Venkatramani, CS (COMM) 15/2019.

[26] Section 13, The Copyright Act, 1957, No. 14, Acts of Parliament, (India).

[27] Sahara One Media and Entertainment & Ors v. Sampat Pal & Ors., CS (OS) No. 638 of 2014.

[28] Lawyer Sends Notice To India Today Group For Allegedly Spreading Misinformation On Death Of Actor Sushant Singh Rajput Via AajTak Channel, Live Law (Jun. 15, 2020, 12:50 PM), https://ift.tt/30AH6q4.

[29] Supra note at 1, at 47.

[30] Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 1994, World Trade Organisation, https://ift.tt/1S5jmPl.

[31] WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty,1996, World Intellectual Property Organization, https://ift.tt/33AXaKk.

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Opinion: Bomba: The enduring anthem of Puerto Rico

A dancer emerged from the crowd, tipping an imaginary hat to the lead drummer. It’s a gesture that says the bomba has begun.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Drummers beat the goatskin covers of rum barrels while a singer led a chorus in call and response.

A dancer emerged from the crowd, tipping an imaginary hat to the lead drummer. It’s a gesture that says the bomba has begun.

This playful exchange between dancers, singers and drummers is the rhythmic backbone of Afro-Boricuas here. Developed in the 17th century, when the Spanish were still in control, it is one of the oldest musical traditions on the island. Some of its earliest practitioners were West Africans working on sugar plantations; their bomba dances offered a means of social connection and catharsis, and, according to the ethnomusicologist Salvador E. Ferreras, sometimes helped them to disguise revolts.

These days, bomba offers a different kind of diversion. The mayor of San Juan danced the bomba with Ricky Martin. And recently, filmmaker Spike Lee was here filming bomba scenes for the second season of “She’s Gotta Have It.” It’s an art form on the verge of becoming mainstream.

For generations of Afro-Boricua workers and families, bomba has remained central to community, with the drum acting as an instrument of political power, entertainment and spiritual release. Some may even call bomba the soundtrack of Puerto Rican resistance. At this year’s May Day march in San Juan, its lyrics and drumbeats echoed through the crowds airing their opposition to austerity measures, including school closures and university tuition hikes, before police fired pepper spray and tear gas to end the protest.

Bomba’s resilient spirit has become more pronounced in the face of the island’s economic crisis and the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

At La Terraza de Bonanza, any given bomba night is bound to be packed with young people. Some dance with exaggerated technique, their faces pinched tight with discipline. Traditionalists flick a fan or a skirt to mark their control over the physical space. Others are more avant-garde and incorporate acrobatic moves, or an arrhythmic dance known as flossing.

These nights began with just a few friends getting together to play drums, said Otura Mun, the frontman of the Afro-Caribbean electronic band ÌFÉ, and grew through social media and word of mouth. Attendance really swelled after Hurricane Maria in September 2017; because Bonanza had a generator still on hand from Hurricane Irma, the no-frills, open-air bar was one of few places in the neighborhood with power. It opened for business just two days after the storm.

The resurgence of bomba owes something to formal experimentation. La Tribu de Abrante, a high-energy, 12-piece fusion orchestra, has blended the sounds of bomba with reggaeton, reggae and hip-hop. The openness to new sounds has helped expand bomba’s audience locally, through live performance and radio, and globally, by associating it with popular genres.

“When I traveled to other countries, people would say reggaeton is the traditional music of Puerto Rico,” recalled Hiram Abrante, the band’s frontman, who is from Loíza. “I’d say, ‘What? It’s bomba.’”

His goal has always been to make bomba more accessible to listeners around the world while maintaining respect for its traditions and history. At the recent Festival del Apio in Barranquitas, Abrante acknowledged bomba’s heritage by closing La Tribu’s set with a salute to two of San Juan’s oldest bomba families: the Cepedas and the Ayalas.

“With evolution, there is responsibility,” said Victor Emmanuelli, 41, a member of the musical group Bomba Evolución and a historian of the genre. “It’s important for young people to have the fundamentals in order for the genre to evolve.” He started playing bomba at age 8 in Carolina, a town between San Juan and Loíza.

Jerry Ferrao, who played with the Cepedas for 20 years, has noticed that some younger players seem overly concerned with playing fast, favoring the rhythm of the dance over the poetry of the songs.

Yet others regard the accelerating pace as only natural, even evolutionary. “Drivers from the 1960s can say 2018 drivers are going too fast, but cars are faster these days,” said Jose L. Elicier, 41, who plays with the group Majestad Negra.

But what do the first families of bomba make of all this change?

Jesús Cepeda was seated on a cot in the modest three-bedroom home where he was raised with 10 brothers and sisters and a few other relatives. The walls of the house, which once belonged to his father, the famous bombero Don Rafael Cepeda, are a monument to the family’s cultural legacy, filled end to end with commemorative plaques and sun-bleached certificates of recognition, including one signed by Ronald Reagan.

“Regarding the success of La Tribu, I want to be sincere,” said Cepeda, 68. “Mixing reggaeton and reggae with bomba — on the one hand, it’s good, it’s beautiful. Young people are representing the same idea that we are.”

“They’re helping bomba,” Cepeda said of La Tribu, “but I have 65 years of doing this, giving classes, direct from folklore. It’s not a mix. I can speak to the masters of generations before me, but they can’t. They’re not masters, they’re students.”

He remembers a time when Afro-Puerto Rican music wasn’t so popular, when bomba was dressed up differently to appeal to white audiences. “They put two white dancers on the cover of the album,” said Cepeda, laughing, describing Rafael Cortijo’s breakthrough album, “Rafael Cortijo y Su Combo Invites You to Dance.” His father played with the band.

“It was harder for us then, you know what I mean?” Cepeda said. “We were poor, we were black, we didn’t have a studio. All we had was bomba, nothing else.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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davedimartino-yahoo-blog · 7 years ago

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Remembering Steely Dan’s Walter Becker: the lost interview

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It was devastating news for family, friends, and fans of Steely Dan’s Walter Becker to hear of his passing Sunday, as the highly respected musician was a much-loved figure. Together with longtime musical partner Donald Fagen, Becker formulated a unique, intelligent, and unparalleled musical approach; made a band out of it all; gave it the name of a now-celebrated sexual aid; and found chart success, and considerable drama, in the years that would follow.

There has really never been a band like Steely Dan.

The years have been kind to Steely Dan. Their records have never gone out of print. They had hits, many. They had Grammy nominations; they had Grammy wins. They had scant exposure on MTV and thus never burnt out, culturally. Very few people actually knew what they looked like. Much like the Beatles, they completely stopped touring when they probably shouldn’t have. They only got better and more famous. The list of artists influenced by them continues to grow. They played at Coachella in 2015 alongside hipster bands that might as well have consisted of their grandchildren. None of them were exactly photogenic.

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Walter Becker just died, and the Internet is buzzing.

It’s a great story: Their emergence as a pop combo in the early ’70s, chart success, band members out, leaving Becker and Fagen with a host of great studio musicians, and then the slow fade that followed 1980’s Gaucho. Many believed it would be the band’s last album ever, but, of course, it wasn’t. There was a mid-‘90s tour, and a live set documenting it. There were two new albums that followed, including 2000’s Grammy-winning Two Against Nature and 2003’s Everything Must Go, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There was actually quite a bit.

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And in that lengthy interim between, there were other things. Donald Fagen solo albums, all good, with 1993’s Kamakiriad bearing Walter Becker’s production credit; other Becker production gigs with artists like China Crisis, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Franks, Norway’s Fra Lippo Lippi, and the Windham Hill Jazz imprint; and a Walter Becker solo album or two.

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So in July 1994, 11 Tracks of Whack, Becker’s first-ever solo album was about to see the light of day. I sat down with him at Signet Sound Studios in West Hollywood for a chat that would ostensibly provide the material for a bio that would never emerge, but no problem. It was a warm and fascinating discussion with the man — one filled with humor, candor, and precisely that same mildly amused, detached persona that populated more than a few Steely Dan songs.

Heretofore unseen, it’s a fascinating look at Walter Becker, then and there.

Yahoo Music: Why has it taken so long for the world to get a Walter Becker album?

Walter Becker: All the years that we were making Steely Dan records, I was utterly satisfied with that. I never really felt there were additional things I wanted to get out of my system that I wasn’t able to get out of my system doing that. And then in 1979 or ‘80, when I stopped doing that, I moved to Hawaii and I was basically thrilled and delighted to realize and recall that there was an entire other world other than writing songs and making records out there. And I enjoyed that for a good solid number of years there. And only after a while, I started to think it would be fun to incorporate a little bit of this stuff back into my life. And as I was producing records for people, I’d sit there and think, “Well, this is their record, and I want to help them do it their way — but if it was my record, I’d want to do it this way.”

So I started thinking about writing some music and making some kind of record. Initially I had no preconceived notion of whether it would be instrumental or whether it would be vocal, so I wrote some instrumental music, and I realized that the additional possibilities that you get for making something interesting and striking and meaningful when you add words is tremendous. So I started writing songs, and pretty much by default I ended up writing most of the songs by myself, and I ended being the singer for them. Because once I started writing them, the ones that came out well and I kind of liked were songs that nobody else was going to want to sing. Or sing well, anyway. It’s the same thing that happened originally with Steely Dan that led Donald to be the singer.

Any fears on your end that this solo album will be perceived as the answer to the question of what exactly you bring to the Steely Dan mix?

That’s a hard question for me to answer in detail, because people always ask me about that. I actually, of course, know what I brought to the mix, but it’s hard for me to explain it to somebody. Basically we sat there and we wrote all these songs and made these records together. And one of the things that made it work was the fact that Donald and I were very attuned to aesthetic objectives and stylistic reference points, and the fact that we had a very organic give and take with who did what. If someone came up with an idea, it wasn’t a big thing of “Well, it’s my idea versus your idea,” or “This is my song, so it’s up to me to say.” Somebody did an interview with Donald and I after Kamakiriad came out, and I remember this particular writer asked the two of us who wrote a particular line in a song. We thought about it, neither of could remember, and one of us said, “We both did.” Obviously, there weren’t two guys holding a pencil there.

It’s interesting because both Donald’s Kamakiriad and your new album “sound like” Steely Dan, if you know what I mean.

I never know how people are going to feel about that. What if something sounds like Steely Dan? Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn’t. And I’m not even sure what they’re talking about. There are a few instances when I hear somebody — for example, that band that was called Danny Wilson — that I understood why that sounded like Steely Dan. Deacon Blue, I don’t understand why they sounded like Steely Dan — I mean, I understand the name. Poor China Crisis - people said the China Crisis record sounded like Steely Dan. I didn’t understand that, or whether these things are going to sound like Steely. I figure it’s OK to plagiarize yourself.

You’ve produced several artists since the Steely Dan days. How has that work affected the way you produce your own music?

I learned a lot from the various artists that I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don’t want to do it. As result of that experience, as a result of the way my life is configured now, the way I want to spend my time — I kind of feel like I have less patience or interest in making these perfect little jewel-type things that we were trying to do with Steely Dan. I feel like the main thing is to get the spirit of the thing down there, capturing whatever was good about it the moment that you write it, as effectively as you can, and then presenting it in this more stripped-down kind of version. If it’s good, it’s on the album; if it’s no good, next. Obviously I haven’t spent 18 months doing little quick improvisatory things. But that was one of the design goals involved here: I wanted things to come out where it felt like it was still close to the spirit of something.

You don’t regret spending all the time you spent polishing up the Steely Dan stuff, do you?

No, not at all. But I already did that — and now I have young kids I want to spend time with, and I feel like I’m a healthier, happier person when I don’t lose myself in those details. And I just think that, especially in the musical context of the day, slick is not good in a lot of ways now. People are turned off to slick-sounding things. I myself am. So I just kind of feel that something that’s a little more raw, a little bare, the bare essential elements of things — you need a groove and you need some sort of a vocal that’s good enough that doesn’t make you wince.

There’s a lot of things that you do [in the studio] that are strictly for yourself, because you’re going to hear the thing a thousand times — you’re going to hear it over and over in the course of the day that you’re working on it, right? — and you just can’t stand to hear that. It’s like a guy that’s sanding down a piece for something and it’s going to be inside and no one’s ever going to see it, you know, but you just can’t stand to know that you did this piece of s*** work in there. There’s a lot of that involved in record-making — especially when you start with a sequencer, start with some drums, and then you add another thing, and another layer - once you start making all those layers perfect, it takes quite a bit of time and concentration to do that. However, when the thing is all finished, those things are so down there in the bottom of the pile, the substructure of what you’re doing, it didn’t really matter that you did that. No one else is ever going to hear that you did it that way. But that’s an aspect of craftsmanship in general that you do that. So anyway, I’m trying to get away from that, so I can have a life.

Your new songs seem to have a lot of surprisingly adult, “grown-up” themes. Has being away from the business so long made you re-evaluate your adventurous past a bit?

If you’re trying to be honest about what you’re doing, if you’re going to write one song or one novel, it might be some sort of real abstraction from what your life is, but if you’re going to write a bunch of them, you have to come from place of what your real life and your experience is. And I live in a situation probably similar to yours, in a house in a suburban setting with a family around me, taking the kids to the school in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon. Plus, I’m at the point in my life when a lot of things that we associate with rock ‘n’ roll I’m not doing anymore now. So I think to try to sustain some… and yet I feel as much as a secret agent with amnesia as I ever did. I can’t remember who I work for, but I know I’m spying on these people. I probably planted a bomb in their house, you know? [laughs]

Could you even imagine 15 years ago you’d be writing the sort of material you’re writing now?

I think it was a very significant stage of my development as starting out to be opinionated, and to have clear-cut stylistic rules — this is something that’s “in,” this is something that’s “out.” That was a really helpful thing for me and Donald, and something that we developed together. Sometimes I think about the songs that Donald and I started writing together when we first started, and how that evolved and got to the point that it was at when we started making records. You know, we learned from our failures — we learned things not to do, and we learned other things that did work. There were songs, we would write the same song over and over again sometimes, the same musical thing, and we’d finally end up with a set of lyrics or a melody or whatever part that made that thing work. I think that’s important when you’re starting out and growing up as an artist.

And then later on, after you’ve done that for a long time, sometimes you just have to do something different. And for me, I felt like I was in a luxurious position of being a 44-year-old “new artist” who had an immense experience of making records and writing songs for a new artist. So I could afford to indulge myself — without stepping in deep doo-doo.