Performers' Rights in Sri Lanka Singers' Melancholia /

• Main Author: Nanayakkara, Gowri (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Mass media.; Law.; Ethnology-Asia.; Commercial law.; IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property.; Asian Culture.; Commercial Law.

This book explores whether global music copyright law and the performers' rights regime (PRR) have been able to improve the economic position of artists, as they were originally intended to. The author investigates whether this regime effectively addresses contemporary issues regarding royalty...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Separating the singer from the song
• Chapter 2: The Sinhala commercial music industry and its development
• Chapter 3: The emergence and development of the performers' rights regime
• Chapter 4: Issues faced by contemporary commercial singers in Sri Lanka
• Chapter 5: The performers' rights regime: the Sri Lankan vocalists' solution or their concern?
• Chapter 6: Conclusion.