Indra Lesmana: Everything Will Be Direct License In Time

Indra Lesmana (Instagram @indralesmana)

JAKARTA - Indra Lesmana is one of the musicians who believes that direct license is the best system for distribution of royalties to songwriters.

As is known, direct license is a system where song/music users pay royalties directly to songwriters or copyright holders and related rights.

Through social media Threads, the 59-year-old musician said technological developments would be the answer to the implementation of direct licenses that seem unable to be implemented in Indonesia at this time.

"Technology will continue to develop to facilitate and provide transparency in transactions," said Indra, quoted Monday, November 24.

"The time will come for the music license to run directly to the creator without an intermediary/middleman," he continued. Everything will direct license on time

Previously, Indra, who was present at the consultation meeting on the revision of the Copyright Law in the DPR, criticized the royalties distribution system in Indonesia which was considered ancient or irrelevant.

Jack Lesmana's son said the Collective Management Institute (LMK) was still implementing a royalty withdrawal with a license plate system implemented from 1917 which was no longer relevant to the current conditions of the music world.

"Currently, in Indonesia it still uses a blendet license. This license plate was created in 1917. It has been more than 100 years. At that time, it might not be able to get accurate data, there is no internet, the number of songs is also not as much as it is now," he said.

"Now, there are 120 thousand songs released every day in the world. How can the license plate get all of that data accurately? It's impossible. Meanwhile, we already have an application, even on our cellphones for free, we can know what song is playing," he continued.

Indra also questioned SILM (Song and/or Music Information System) and PDLM (Song and/or Music Data Center) which according to him should be resolved immediately by LMKN (National Collective Management Institute). He also direct license proposed by the All-Indonesian Composter Association (AKSI) as an answer to the problem of royalty governance in Indonesia.

"So if I make a conclusion, there are several options that can replace the blendet license. First, the ACTION had tried to live or show the music if possible direct. Even that, I am very supportive because it can be very accurate, we already know the setlist, what songs are played by the performers," said Indra.

"So, direct license will make it very easy for creators to get their economic rights without having to wait too long. Because when the show is over, the singer's eyelash has already got his economic rights, while songwriters sometimes have to wait six months," he concluded.