Sonu Nigam says T-Series, Zee Music stopped working with him over royalty rights campaign

Indian singer alleges fallout also affected visibility of his music, claims his songs received less promotionPHOTO: Mid-DaySinger Sonu Nigam has claimed that two of India's biggest music labels, T-Series and Zee Music, stopped working with him after he began campaigning for royalty rights for singers. Reflecting on the campaign for artists' rights, Nigam said the music industry had since changed. Someone had to bell the cat," he said, adding that he was continuing the fight for performers' rights that legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar had once championed. The situation changed with the Copyright Amendment Act of 2012, which granted performers statutory royalty rights. The publication noted that Mangeshkar was among the first Indian singers to campaign for royalty rights in the 1960s.