By Abhishek Dey, BBC News | Vishal Kalita’s collection of music cassettes has turned his residence in India’s Assam state into a private museum. For more than a decade, the 30-year-old has been traveling across the country buying obsolete tapes, which he has carefully stored at his home in Guwahati city.
The collection, which was opened to the public last month, also includes hundreds of CDs and rare posters of musicians from around the world.
But it’s the discography of Zubeen Garg, a singer and composer from the state, that has been drawing the most number of visitors.
A cultural icon in Assam, Garg died in Singapore last month, leaving his millions of fans heartbroken.
Mr Kalita has some 38,000 songs of the singer in his collection, including songs that cannot be found anywhere else today, he says.
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In India, the Copyright Act, 1957, governs music ownership, with separate copyright for lyrics, musical composition and sound recording, says Delhi-based intellectual property rights lawyer Neel Mason.
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