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The Senate of Pakistan has passed a resolution that ensures royalties for artists, Senator Faisal Javed announced on Tuesday. The resolution, passed unanimously, would empower the Copyright Board to fix royalties for licensing and assignment of work and to ensure payments to artists, according to actor Humayun Saeed. Until now, artists only get paid once for their work but the media houses are free to re-run plays and movies featuring them and earn more money. Royalties are payments that artists receive on the reruns of their projects. Royalties had been the subject of debate since the death of actor Naila Jafferi, who had publicly appealed to the government that artist be gi.