Responding To Music Royalties In Indonesia, Ade Govinda: There Are Improvements But Not Maximum

JAKARTA - Govinda guitarist, Ade Nurulianto or better known as Ade Govinda, has eaten enough salt acid as a musician and songwriter. The profession has been running for 16 years.

Ade also tried to explain how a songwriter today can get economic rights from the works that have been produced.

Considering that currently very close to the digital world, Ade thinks, as long as a songwriter joins the right publisher to manage mechanical rights royalties, the resulting economic rights are quite good.

"If royalties are in Indonesia, yes, as long as we have the right publisher, for a digital platform, it should be safe. The ring back tone is also still there, from YouTube it is still there," said Ade when met in Sudirman, Central Jakarta, Thursday, February 6.

Different from mechanical rights, Ade feels that the collection and distribution of royalties for performing rights in Indonesia is not good enough.

"The performance rights in Indonesia is there, but I want to say it's not optimal. That's all," said the guitarist who also wrote a lot of songs for other singers.

"In my opinion, from year to year there is improvement, but it is not optimal," he added.

From his own experience as a songwriter, both performed by Govinda and other parties, Ade said that the economic rights he has obtained so far can support him.

"I am? Alhamdulillah I can (live)," he concluded.