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Campaign on Copyright Act begins in Goa

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Music of various companies are played without paying licence fee
PPL issued notices to 80 defaulters last year

PANAJI: With the Christmas and New Year celebrations drawing closer, Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. (IPRS), Indian Music Industry (IMI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd. (PPL) will organise an awareness campaign on the implementation of the Copyright Act, 1957, in Goa.

The music industry, which drew the ire of the State’s hotels and resorts last year for the crackdown on live music with the assistance of the police during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, is now taking the path of generating awareness, according to sources in IPRS.

The sources said that the Christmas and New Year season witnessed music events, including live bands, performing at hotels and resorts across the State.

For instance, PPL issued notices to 80 defaulters last year.

The campaign began last week with a seminar on Copyright Act enforcement problems and remedies, addressed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Julio Ribeiro, who is the adviser to IMI on music piracy, and president of IMI and PPL Vijay Lazarus. Though there was no substantial music piracy in Goa through duplication of music CDs, a number of hotels, restaurants, discotheques and music joints played music released under labels of various companies without bothering to pay the licence fee, Mr. Ribeiro said.

Realising that the police generally treat music piracy as a low priority issue, IMI has taken over the responsibility of investigating piracy with the help of retired police personnel and youth.

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