NOC or No Objection Certificate is an important form that confirms the exclusive ownership and rights over creative works by their producers/commissioners. In the story, a choreographer Sam creates a dance video but faces copyright claims from the musicians and dancers involved in making the video. His lawyer cousin explains the importance of obtaining a NOC from all contributors to formally establish his sole ownership over the video and rights to any revenue generated from it. With NOCs signed, Sam is able to retain all profits from the successful video without having to share with others. The moral is creators should always get NOCs from freelancers involved to avoid similar disputes over ownership and revenue sharing later on.

1. How important NOC is for copyrights.
NOC or No Objection Certificate is a very important form that most tend to
overlook. We make a lot of effort to get the logo or any artistic work for your
creative work that you are wishing to bring to the world. We may be the producer
and the giver of ideas for that particular work, but still the artist who works for
the dream art of yours may still have his fair share of ownership over the artistic
work as well. You may have payed him off for his service but still without this NOC
you may not be considered as the full owner of that artistic work, the artist can
claim it at any time. “But I gave the idea, I paid for it, I am the one who brought
the work out to the market”, this is what more then three-fourth of the owners of
the artistic say when every the get legally attacked by the authors or the creators.
This problem seemed to grow so be big we had to write on this to spread
awareness on the NOC. So that’s what this article will deal with, all the aspects of
NOC.

2. Let’s go with stories like always. Sam Is a choreographer looking to preform a new
dance fusion and upload it on you tube as his profile. So, he records his fusion on
camera by himself with a sample music. He loved the output, the fusion actually
worked perfectly, but still he wasn’t happy with the output as the he wanted a
much peppier beat for his steps to come alive. He knew he had to do something
about it, so went to his friend Kevin who was a music producer. He should his
little sample. Kevin liked it and tells he could make a trick in a much better scale.
He played Sam a few tracks and he immediately got hooked. In no time both
where discussing about how to make the video and the other stuff. Listening to
the sample bit Kevin played Sam hand a crazy idea to bring in a female dancer and
execute the same dance steps he choreographed in a little more classical manner.
Kevin loved the idea. So, the call Preethi a dancer who was a co-dancer of Sam in
collage. They got a friend of Kevin who was a professional cinematographer to
shoot the video. Sam took care of all the expenses, he even offered to pay Kevin

3. for his work. But Kevin wanted a percentage in the yield the video was going to
make. This was fine by both of them so even before they started shooting the
video Kevin and Sam had a deal among themselves amended among each other
stating, Sam takes care of the video expenses and rights , whereas Kevin takes
care of the audio side of things and the expenses to complete the track will all fall
in Kevin’s hands, which he was ok with. They shake on it and each start their
works respectively.
Kevin delivers a perfect track to Sam and Sam using that track mixes his
choreographed steps and teaches them to Preethi. They go for shooting the video
and it comes out exceptionally well. Sam had to face more expenses as he was
paying for many departments so he told Kevin that he would be taking a huge
chunk of the profit. Kevin seemed that it was only fair to let him take the high
amount, so he accepted it. Once it was ready for release Sam went on to many
You-tube channels for a good deal and in the end he got it from a channel for his
efforts. Once the video got uploaded they where facing a huge victory as they
crossed over 2 million views and got a good amount as returns. Sam was very
happy until he got a call from Kevin. Kevin said that his artist and mixers who
worked in the audio department where going to claim their work for copyrights
and are asking for the share of the amount they where getting as a revenue. This
shocked Sam as Kevin claimed that he had paid them off for the work beforehand
but still they demand more. He told Kevin to hold them for the time being. Sam’s
next call was from Preethi, claiming even she wanted a pay from the revenue.
Sam erupted as he already payed her, but she said it was by law that she could
claim for this and that she can also claim for the copyrights of the choreography
as well as she made a lot of updates on Sam’s original Choreography. Preethi also
said that she wanted performing rights to perform the fusion in drama stages.
Sam was really didn’t know what was happening. His creation was being picked
apart from each direction. He knows that talking to an attorney right now is the
best thing for now. So, he goes to his cousin brother Jacob who was a lawyer.
Hearing all that Sam had to say Jacob asked if he took a NOC form signed. Sam
was hearing this NOC word for the first time. Jacob laughs and prepares a NOC
and gives it to Sam. He tells Sam to pay a small sum to everyone who demanded
and when he does he wanted Sam to make them sign a NOC form. Jacob also
suggested Sam to give Preethi the money she demanded but asked him to sign a

4. small contract for her to perform on other stages. Sam didn’t understand this, he
was still paying them, now why sign a new deal. Yet Sam did what he was told to
do. In a few weeks the video grossed a whooping 10 million views and then is
when Sam understood what Jacob had done.
By the NOC being signed Sam got all the royalty money for the video from
YouTube and this time he didn’t have to split it out with anyone except Kevin. Not
only that when Preethi was performing in different places, she had to pay Sam to
perform his choreography. This gave him a small percentage of the revenue as
well. This went well for Sam as Jacob said.
Now as we bisect the story we will know the importance of NOC. The NO
OBJECTION CERTIFICATE is a form that is used to exclusively to make sure the
freelance designers and others don’t who work for your project for wages don’t
claim royalty for their work or don’t expect revenue from the products yield. This
is normally a huge problem for publishers or producers nowadays. They don’t feel
the obligation to sign this with the designers. But this helps them keep their
ownership intact. This problem has arising a lot these days. Even non artistical
trademark claimers who are only trademarking their own name and logo designs.
They must get a NOC from the designer of the logo. While applying for copyrights
in artistical work or design mark all the NOC’s you have signed must be submitted.
So, the next time you use designers or freelance artist’s help for your creation
make sure you get this form signed by them. It’s important to make yourself the
official owner of your tree, or you may have to share the fruits with the
undeserved few.