The local artistes have sent a seven day notice to terminate
their contracts from the company Spice Vas Tanzania Limited after experiencing
that the companies and other mobile stake holders are gaining extremely higher
on the caller tunes and mobile tone deals than the actual owners of the musical
work.
As it was leaked on the media about the OnMobile Company,
the company based in India and the way they are making up to 40 million
Tanzanian Shillings per day in caller tunes without consulting the local
musicians to whom their works are being exploited. The artistes now are moving
to server deal with the local company Push Mobile about new deals favoring both
the sides compared to the last one in which artistes were losing billions of
shillings on royalty sharing schemes.
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| Professor Jay |
The artistes have collected 127 signatures from different
local musicians, bands and official representatives of the musicians who were
not present. Some of the artistes include Tanzania professional rappers such as
Professor Jay, AY, Mwana FA, Godzilla, Fid Q, Mataluma, Izzo B and Dully Sykes.
The letter from artiste’s union lawyer was directly pointed
to the Telecom giant companies of Tanzania, Airtel, Tigo, Vodacom and Zantel clearly
stating that “We, The artistes of Tanzania in unison irrespective of the genre,
instruct you to stop any further sale of our music in terms of caller tunes and
ring tones to mobile phone companies”.