Copyright for Vietnamese music works on the Internet

Currently, copyright issues for Vietnamese literary and music works on the Internet are giving managers the challenges of management as well as execution. This is even more mentioned, when starting from July 1, Vietnam 's intellectual property law officially takes effect.

The problems remain open

The Music Copyright Protection Center has been in operation since 2002, representing 830 musicians through proxy contracts, being the legal representative for musicians in the 16 countries and territories above. gender. But the influence of the Center currently has not reached the Internet environment.

According to the Center's statistics, at least 20 websites that listen to Vietnam's online music are infringing copyright. Includes websites of domestic and foreign press agencies, students. In it, contains a large number of mp3 files for free download. This greatly affected the normal exploitation of the authors - an expression of serious violation of copyright law.

The Center for Vietnamese Copyright Literature, currently only 5 people. All they can do up to now is to re-type the large printed works, save them into a digital database, to wait for the day of trading on the Internet. However, without waiting for the typewritten versions, there are now dozens of websites posting free literature. And of course, it's completely out of control of integrity and copyright.

Whose responsibility is that?

Characteristic of digital environment is the expansion of sharing to the maximum. In a superficial way, the rules of copyright law will limit this preeminent characteristic, but in fact, it is contributing to healthy and creating a truly civilized online art environment. And on a more comprehensive level, it is the motivation to encourage creativity, build a civilized artistic life.

While we do not have clear regulations on charging, not yet popularizing the form of electronic payment, the ability to control electronic data is not high, the copyright issue on the Internet only stops at requires respect for personal rights, but they can hardly think about property rights. That is, while not being able to expect any income from online distribution. Authors can only hope for their spiritual children, not to distort, mutilate, or distort.

However, for listeners, when the law has not reached them, they will never buy themselves. Listeners will still enjoy free works as long as possible. In order to claim their rights, the musicians themselves must be active. That civil relations is a relationship that when a violation is discovered, the person who is violated must architect a certain agency to resolve it, but no one will search for it.

And the consequences for artistic life

There is no sense of copyright, irresponsibility to the author - the work, it is an important reason leading to the situation of three stars. And when readers have to enjoy such works, unseenly, our artistic life is secretly weakening.

In the current context, can we immediately shut down sites that are violating copyrighted copyright for music and music works? It is not possible, because first of all it touches the public's sacred interests - the right to enjoy a wide range of works everywhere, anytime.

In the past, the regulations on copyright of literary and musical works in Vietnam were concretized by decree. But starting July 1, 2006, the effective Intellectual Property law will be a very good base for authors to legally claim their rights.

Obviously, when the authors' self-awareness of their own rights is enhanced, along with the legalization, we can fully believe in the sustainable development of life. Living literature - country music. Because then there was the existence of intellectual property law associated with the key technology, electronic payment and legal consciousness of citizens.

Linh Thuy