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  • MTV Immies’04 to air live on 10 December

    MTV Immies’04 to air live on 10 December

    MUMBAI: The big one on MTV’s agenda is the music awards show, MTV Immies’04 – The Indian Music Excellence Award. Presented by MTV Networks India, Indian Music Industry (IMI) and Tata Indicom, the awards will be held in Mumbai on 10 December 2004 at the Tulip Star Hotel (formerly Juhu Centaur).

    The awards will be filmed live and simulcast telecast to over 23.5 million homes on MTV and 32 million homes on Sony Entertainment Television on 19 December 2004.

    Additionally, the music channel has also annnounced the nominees in the popular categories.

    Based on the ‘horror’ theme, the Immies are sponsored by Lays and Honda Unicorn, while the style partner is Killer with LG Care being a partner, says a company release.

    The Immies will honor artists in 23 categories across various genres of music – from Indipop to ghazals, from film to spiritual music and from devotional to International. There will be a special recognition award for outstanding contribution to the Indian music industry.

    The nominees this year include Hrithik Roshan for ‘Main Aisa Kyun Hoon’ from Lakshya and Sanjay Dutt for ‘M Bole To’ from Munnabhai MBBS in the ‘Best performance in a song – male’ category. Mallika Sherawat for ‘Bheegey Honth’ from Murder and Kareena Kapoor for ‘Aaja Ve Mahi’ from Fida in the ‘Best performance in a song – female’ category. Anu Malik, Sajid Wajid and Jatin Lalit have been nominated in the Best composer category.

    Touted as a world-class music awards event, Immies will bring together a galaxy of local and international music artists, and acknowledge their immense contribution to the world of entertainment.

    Executed by MTV India, with the help of MTV’s international ‘experts’ team, the Immies aim to provide Indian audiences with a world-class event of a caliber similar to what MTV produces worldwide such as the MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music awards and the MTV Asia Awards.

    Announcing the nominees, MTV Networks India, managing Director, Alex Kuruvilla, said: “2004 has been a big year for MTV with the successful second season of our ‘cult show’ Roadies and Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi, our first soap, catapulting us to number 1 in Mumbai with a 4 rating in only its second week. December will see a ton of new programming and exciting initiatives, led by our flagship award show – MTV Immies!”

    Speaking about the Immies, IMI president V.J Lazarus, as quoted in the release, said: “MTV Immies’04 in its second year itself has been a great success with more than 300 nominees entries in various categories. We have been able to create a platform to honour, applaud and recognize the best in the Industry. IMI as a body will continue to support and improve the quality of Indian music not only in India but all over the world.”

    Tata Teleservices-Telecom, president Amit Bose, said: “We are proud to be associated with this mega music excellence awards. It is another special endeavour from Tata Indicom, which showcases our customer centric approach to build relationships with our customers by providing excitement and entertainment with this unique event.”

    Sony Entertainment Network, chief executive officer, Kunal Dasgupta, commented: “Sony entertainment television has consistently brought its viewers the best of events and has been associated with MTV Immies, since its inception. Our latest offering Indian Idol has made music the centerpiece in millions of homes across the nation and with MTV IMMIES, we will further present the best in the music industry.”

    The nominations in the popular categories are a result of a quantitative study conducted by IMRB across eight cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Bangalore, Indore, Kolkata and Ahmedabad), says the release.

    The final nominations of the popular categories will then be put up for a ‘Viewers Choice Vote’ on MTV. Viewers are invited to vote for their favourite artist by logging onto www.mtvindia.com, by sending an SMS “IMMIES” to 6882 or by calling 1250-111-122 (MTNL) or 1250-122 (BSNL).

    In the technical categories for gazal, devotional/spiritual and classical/fusion albums, the winners will be decided by a jury consisting of MTV and IMI members, while MTV and IMI’s International label committee will decide the international winners. A separate executive nomination committee selected by MTV and IMI will decide the recipient of the Inspiration/Special Award, adds the release.

    The nomination for Hindi film music nominations:

     

  • Indian Music Industry ties up with Holoflex to curb piracy

    Indian Music Industry ties up with Holoflex to curb piracy

    MUMBAI: The Indian Music Industry (IMI) has stepped up the fight against piracy in association with Holoflex – a hologram manufacturer. The two will join hands to organise a series of seminars to educate the consumer on how one can differentiate between a genuine CD and a pirated one through a specially created IMI hologram.

    While addressing the media in Mumbai today, IMI officials confirmed that the seminars have already taken place in Bangalore and Delhi; and in a few weeks time IMI will conduct seminars in Chennai.

    According to a release, IMI will also use print and television spots to create awareness about the distinguished features of the IMI hologram. This particular hologram, adds the release, is a combination of laser generated images and is not ink based. IMI’s hologram is created through a painstaking process involving over 40 processes. If one attempts to remove it, only the polyester film will come out. If peeled further, then the image is destroyed. The hologram features the IMI text that one can see. The IMI release says that these features aren’t visible on the pirated products.

    Holoflex has already conducted workshops to educate the IMI internal task force on how the hologram is to be identified. Now, the company is trying to familiarise consumers with this trademark. IMI officials point out that the pirated CD don’t have the track listings; and have spelling errors of the titles or artistes.

    The IMI release also claims that the hologram is customised for each member. For example for Tips the code is T for Venus the code is V and so on.

    At the Mumbai briefing this morning, IMI president VJ Lazarus said: “The legitimate music industry is worth 475 crores (Rs 47.5 million) from 2002-2003 end March. This is a comedown from 775 crores (Rs 77.5 million) in 2000-2001. The industry is at the crossroads. However in countries like Italy where the hologram system has been implemented, the share of the legitimate music industry has grown by 20 per cent.”

    “The problem in India is the both legitimate and illegitimate distribution of music takes place within the same system. Therefore lower down the chain, a retail outlet might sell a counterfeit product without realising the difference. Our hope is that the hologram will go a long way towards resolving the mix up. The work to create the hologram took around six months,” Lazarus added.

    Lazarus said that the IMI was hoping to have its portal up and running by January 2004. “We can let visitors download music for a reasonable price. The music industry here and abroad have realised that digital distribution is the way for future revenue. This will cover the entire repertoire of Indian music. However, this does not mean that we can afford to ignore the physical product.”

    IMI officials claim that the association had some major wins last month as far as licence fees are concerned. In the Malhar college festival case, a Mumbai court ruled in favour of IMI saying that the event organisers could not claim the educational institution exemption as St. Xaviers College was just a facilitator for a multi million event with sponsors like Pepsi, Coke amongst others.

    “Interestingly a day before the event, the Malhar committee went to court but the tables were turned quickly,” claims an IMI spokesperson. Another win was the case involving the Indian Hotels Association in Kerala and Simla, the spokesperson adds.

    As far as FM Radio is concerned, the IMI officials say that the agreement decided by the Copyright Board will remain till October 2004 after which it will come up for review. They also state that neither party is happy with the current arrangement by the way. The IMI officials are trying to work out an arrangement with MTV and the other music channels so that the recording company is paid for the non-film music video and not just the audio.

    The major online problem for IMI is tackling piracy abroad in countries like America where there is a substantial Indian and Asian population. While the Recording Industry Association of America has promised cooperation the legal costs are very high – offer IMI officials.

    Pop musician Shaan who was also present at the briefing stressed the need for the music industry to unite. “Too often we artistes blame the music company if the album fails. We do make money from live acts and sometimes success takes place after three albums. I urge IMI to organise more forums like this so that artistes can dialogue with members of the music industry to advance the state of affairs.”

    Shaan also said that artistes could help the cause by mentioning the piracy fight at concerts. “We need to be aware of the state of the industry because if it dies where will we go?”.