MACA Participates in the CISAC Asia-Pacific Committee Online Meeting

(Macau, May 18 & 19, 2022) – The Asia-Pacific Committee Online Meeting, hosted by the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies (CISAC), is held on 18th and 19th May. Mr. Ung Kuoc Iang, the CEO of Macau Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (MACA) and representative attended the meeting. The meeting focuses on copyright management in the post-Covid era.

At the meeting, the CISAC representative introduced that in the post-Covid era, with the continuous development of online music events, the use of music is increasing, and the corresponding data processing work is becoming more and more complicated. In addition, the live music events are restarting gradually, and the workload of processing the royalty distribution is becoming more and more huge. The member societies of the CISAC Asia-Pacific Committee jointly discussed further improving the communication mechanism, increasing the data processing speed of music usage reports, and cooperating to improve the efficiency of royalty distribution.

Ung Kuoc Iang, the CEO of MACA says that with the launch of the “General Plan for Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin” by the central government, the Macau government has promoted the development of the Cooperation Zone in various ways, hoping to promote the development of music copyright affairs in the Cooperation Zone and safeguard the creators’ rights. At the same time, MACA is actively maintaining contact with local music users in Macau, and continuing to raise the public’s awareness of protecting intellectual property rights and music copyright in Macau.

50 representatives from the authors’ societies across the Asia-Pacific region joined the meeting, including APRA from Australia, COMPASS from Singapore, JASRAC from Japan, FILSCAP from the Philippines, KOMCA from Korea, MCSC from Mainland China, VCPMC from Vietnam, MOSCAP from Mongolia, MACA from Macau, MACP from Malaysia, CASH from Hong Kong, MCT from Thailand, MÜST from Taiwan, WAMI from Indonesia, IPRS from India, PRS from the United Kingdom, ASCAP and BMI from the US, SOCAN from Canada. Representatives from each society attended the meeting to understand the current development of music licensing in the Asia-Pacific regions and share the experience of promoting music copyright.

Photo caption : MACA attended CISAC Asia-Pacific Committee Online Meeting