The Israeli Rocker, Barry Sakharov, has refused to allow participants in Kokhav Nolad, Israel’s version of A Star is Born, to sing his songs.
Barry Sakharov
The refusal comes following a copyright dispute, where program organizers have come to an arrangement with Sakharov regarding royalties for songs sung on the program, but not for Internet broadcasting and uploads to mobile phones.
If other performers will follow suit, I may be able to get the kids off to bed at a reasonable hour and watch my favorite programs on a different channel. Seriously, this seems to be a perfectly reasonable commercial dissagreement which will, no doubt sort itself out shortly. As we saw with the charity concert on Thursday, with Everyone Else singing Arik Einstein, other performers doing variations of well known songs rarely improve them.
