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BROADCASTS: These are covered by copyright. One of the biggest problems facing the recording music industry is piracy. Because it is comparatively easy and cheap to copy cassette tapes and compact discs (CDs), many people do so informally at home and commercially. This reduces royalty income for artists and recording companies. Musicians in South Africa also often struggle because they do not have sophisticated knowledge about their IP rights or how to negotiate favourable contracts with recording companies. An organisation called RiSA (the Recording Industry of South Africa) campaigns against this kind of piracy. It reports that cassette and CD piracy are rife in the country, often linked to gangs and other illegal activities, and that internet piracy is increasing. Counterfeit cassettes are currently being made in Mozambique in huge numbers and imported into the country for sale on the streets, at taxi ranks and mines etc. Counterfeit CDs are manufactured in their millions in the Eastern Bloc and the Far East and brought into South Africa. People also download music from the internet, copy it onto CD and sell the copies. Although you may own an authorised tape or CD, it is generally illegal to copy it, let alone to sell those copies. It is also generally illegal to copy music off the internet without paying for it. Some IP issues regarding writers of songs in particular are covered on the Songwriting site. SARRAL will help artists establish copyright and collect royalties for the sale of music records, tapes and CDs. |
IP by sector: Publishing
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