Naif's Story, Who Had A Problem With Song Royalties

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JAKARTA - Naif is one of the big bands that has a lot of listeners in Indonesia. Dozens and even dozens of songs are known and sung on many occasions.

However, Naif has unpleasant experience about song royalties. Possive, one of the songs from the album Don't Be Too Naif 2000) was once used as a soundtrack for one of the soap operas, but there was no clarity about the royalties received.

Franki Indrasmoro alias Pepeng said that many Indonesian musicians have experienced such things. At that time, he felt that not many musicians had seen the importance of registering songs with music publishers.

"Because at that time I didn't understand the importance of the music publisher. Yes, it's that simple," Pepeng said when met in Lebak Bulus recently.

"And it's not Naif, but a lot. In the past, there were a lot of artists in Indonesia who didn't know the publisher. It's only been open since 2010," he continued.

Pepeng also mentioned the importance of determining the percentage of the creator of each song. Naif had problems because of the unclear presentation of creators in each of his songs.

After 20 years of work, said Pepeng, then the personnel will re-discuss and determine the percentage of creators of each song that is created together.

"Yes, it's actually important to claim personally. And after being educated, we feel like we have to beat, we can't if the percentage is not clear," said Pepeng.

"Unless you want to hit the average (creator's percentage) in every song. Only at that time, Naif personnel felt they needed details, so we chatted," he said.