Release Singer To Perform His Song, Charly Van Houten: His Hakhat Is All Belonging To God

Charly Van Houten (Instagram @charly_setiaku)

JAKARTA - Former ST12 vocalist, Charly Van Houten has expressed his attitude towards copyright in the Indonesian music industry today.

As is known, the issue of the permit to perform songs and the payment of royalties performing rights seems to divide musicians, between singers and songwriters.

The chaos culminated with the decision of the Central Jakarta Commercial Court which won Ari Bias over Agnez Mo. Most recently, Keenan Nasution and Rudi Pekerti also sued Vidi Aldiano for performing the song Nuansa Bening without permission.

Through an upload on his Instagram account, Charly chose to exercise his exclusive rights as a songwriter to free all singers to perform his songs.

"Instead of dimers, I Charly VHT free all fellow singers throughout Indonesia as well as world singers and closers free to sing all my song works on stage or on the hangout," Charly wrote, citing the caption. upload, Monday, May 9.

Charly also emphasized that he would not ask for royalties from his songs performed in every show.

"You don't have to pay royalties," he said. Greetings of peace.

Furthermore, the 45-year-old singer feels that copyright-related issues should be resolved better without going through a legal prosecution process.

"Without there to be an argument, everything can be discussed, there is no need to put forward demands, because essentially everything belongs to God," he said.