Senator Faisal Javed Khan puts forward royalties bill to protect artists

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Faisal Javed Khan has put forward a bill to ensure royalties for artists.
Taking to Twitter on Monday, the senator wrote that last year, a lot of awareness was raised about the need to ensure royalties for artists. He therefore was putting forward a bill in the Senate, ensuring creative people are prioritized.
Royalties are payments made to artists when a show that they have worked on is re-run on television.
“After getting the resolution passed unanimously last year. Glad to announce that today it was indeed a pleasure tabling the much needed royalties bill especially for the poor creative people of our country. #RoyaltiesForArtists Hoping to get it passed soon Insha’ALLAH”

“Artists have been facing the issue of rightful & just royalties for a long time due to redundant and out-dated provisions of relevant laws. The amendment in copyright ordinance 1962 aims at empowering copyright board to fix the royalties for licencing & assignment of work”

Actors like Vasay Chaudhry applauded the bill, and marked it as an important decision to protect creative people in Pakistan, as he pointed out how shows are consistently aired on television shows, but actors or writers whose efforts led to the show’s success, are not given proper compensation.

Last year, the hashtag #giveroyaltiestoartists began trending on Twitter as celebrities like Ushna Shah and Mansha Pasha used their twitter accounts to shed awareness on the limited support creative artists have to remain financially secure for their remaining life, after veteran actress Naila Jafri passed away battling cancer.