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Unveiling the Issue of Music Piracy
April 1, 2002
It was in 1998 when it all began for Marisse. ...
Taking great interest in music and being an avid collector of records of her favorite artists herself, she knew exactly what made these illegal copies so hot to students and underpaid yuppies. ...
For four years now, Marisse has been one of the hundreds, or probably thousands, that have been making a living out of the unauthorized replication, selling,
rental and distribution of copyrighted local and foreign-produced musical sound recordings known as music piracy.
Since the second half of the 90’s, the explosion of music piracy has slowly
gained the Philippines some notoriety as a country of thieves. In 1995, estimated trade losses due to music piracy in Metro Manila alone amounted to $3 million, and just last year, the local industry lost P1 billion to these pirates. ...
The Philippine courts, however, have been totally ineffective in dealing with copyright piracy, according to one experienced observer. ... businesspeople that Manila is fast becoming Asia’s piracy capital, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo vowed to crush distributors and producers of pirated video and compact discs in a press statement made in March 27 last year. ... corporate executives paid a courtesy call to her and expressed shock that pirated music and video CDs were openly sold in Manilas thriving flea markets.
The Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI), meanwhile, together with the Inter-Agency Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (IAC-IPR)
and its member agencies which include the Department of Justice , National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine National Police, Department of Trade and
Industry, Criminal Investigation Group, Bureau of Customs and Economic Intelligence and Investigation Bureau actively continue to monitor and apprehend
music pirates wherever they are found to peddle their illegal trade.
Approximate Word count = 1475
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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