Standing Up For Bollywood Performing Rights
Welcome to North American Bollywood Collective Rights Management (NABCRM). Nabcrm facilitates licensing of Bollywood films, TV and radio and provides payment to copyright owners for the use of their work in North America.
Nabcrm is the North American copyright collective for the
Society for Copyright Regulation
of Indian Producers for Film and Television
(for cinematograph and television films),
a registered copyright society by the Government of India. We administer the performing
rights of Bollywood - film and tv producers - and those of affiliated
international societies by licensing the use of their copyright work in
North America. Our work is to provide
distributors,
retailers, media outlets, and
broadcasters
in
North
America the license they legally require to use Bollywood intellectual property
and recorded material.
The film and television
directors and producers, that is everyone
who works,
takes part and collaborates in the production, performance and execution
of a recorded Bollywood intellectual property piece are all entitled to and
protected by
the performer’s collective right. The use of a recorded
piece of work, according to legislations already in place, legally requests the contribution of a fee to the rightful
owners of a piece; in
other
words to pay
the owners their due performer’s collective
right.
The performer’s collective rights are legally protected by the International
Rome
convention, pre-signed by 70 countries, including the United States of
America and Canada. According to the national treatment principle enshrined
in both the Berne Convention and the Rome Convention, foreign owners of
rights are treated in the same way as nationals in most respects. This
principle is upheld by collective management organizations which, under
reciprocal representation agreements, administer foreign repertoires on
their national territory, exchange information and pay royalties to foreign
owners of right.