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The local music industry has just scored a major victory in its fight against unabated music piracy and copyright infringement, which is costing the sound recording industry and the government billions of pesos in lost profits and revenues.
Supreme Court (SC)
Is the act of playing radio broadcast with copyrighted music through the use of loudspeakers (radio-over-loudspeakers) without a license from the copyright owner considered a performance and an infringement of copyright?
Yes, said the Supreme Court (SC) as it cited jurispr
THE Supreme Court has upheld the right of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Inc. (FILSCAP) to collect license fees and/or royalties over copyrighted works of its member artists played through the use of loudspeakers. In a decision penned by Justice Rodil V. Zalameda, the Court En Banc reversed…