The Copyright Act which was amended in June 2012 unanimously by both Houses of Parliament, afforded to the Singers under Section 39A an entitlement to Royalties from the commercial exploitation of their sung songs wherever played and by whatsoever media or mode. As per the Law, Singers could collect these Royalties through a Performer Society duly registered with the Central Government. Thus, in accordance with the requirement of Law, Singers under the Chairmanship of Lata Mangeshkar formed The Indian Singer's Rights Association (ISRA) and became the 1st Copyright/Performer Right Society to be registered by the Government of India in June 2013 vide Certificate No. 123344 dated June 2013.

According to the amended Copyright Act, anyone who makes /uses/exploits any Singer's Performance commercially then that person is required to pay the Singer Royalty.

After being registered as Performer (Singer) Society, ISRA sought the Singer's Royalty from BCCI for the IPL 2014 Season. But the BCCI got away without even responding to the ISRA Claim.

This year the ISRA again started correspondence with BCCI in March 2015, but again to no avail.

Sonu Nigam expressed his amazement as to how a Chennai Super Kings respects the Law of the Land and BCCI allows others to go scott free. He adds "Law is the same for all. I am fully with ISRA in this endeavour and hope all law abiding indians will respect Singers and pay their Royalties to ISRA "

Says Managing Director of ISRA Sanjay Tandon "It's indeed shocking to experience such a callous, ignoring and carefree attitude of BCCI which is so careful about their own IPRs. We have given them enough time but inspite of this and regular follow ups and full explanation, BCCI decides not to respect and pay the Singer's their Performer Rights Royalties."