While Indian artists are warned against collaborating with Pakistani artists, their regulatory bodies have no qualms about blatantly copying Pakistani works of art. Now an Indian YouTube channel was caught using Pakistani songs without copyrights, and bein involved in illegal distribution of those songs.<\/p>\n
Indian YouTube channel, ‘Last Cigarette’ was posting videos of music and lyrics to tracks from Pakistani artists. This list included artists like Ali Sethi Bayaan, Kashmir \u2013 The Band, 21 The Band, Naseer Afridi, Khamaaj, etc.<\/p>\n
With an estimated 375000 subscribers, how is it that YouTube did not flag it for copyrights violations all this time?<\/p>\n
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Indian Authorities Warn Singers Who Collaborated with Pakistani Artists<\/a><\/p>\n It wasn’t until Pakistani record label a ‘Rearts<\/a>‘ found out that any action was taken against the offending channel.<\/p>\n Rearts<\/em> represents Bayaan, Kashmir, 21 The Band, Naseer Afridi, and Khamaaj and sent a legal notice to the channel regarding copyright infringement.<\/p>\n They even posted about this on Twitter. That’s when the word really got out.<\/p>\n \u201cThe music on this channel featured the content of five artists from our label which had not been obtained from the artists with prior consent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A statement on the recent termination of the YouTube channel 'The Last Cigarette' by rearts records. @Kashmirtheband<\/a> @BayaanOfficial<\/a> @naseerandshahab @21TheBand<\/a> @Khamaaj_band<\/a>#respectart<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/iTele3dGxy<\/a><\/p>\n — rearts (@reartspk) April 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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