MACA promotes music copyright to UMAC students

Macau   Association  of  Composers,  Authors  and Publishers (MACA) has organized

talks  in  local  secondary  schools  to promote  the  importance  and  awareness of

respecting music and its copyright since last year. MACA would also like to promote this idea to university students . Therefore ,  a seminar  was  held  in  University of

Macau (UMAC) on 19 October 2012. Kwee Tiang Ang, Director of Asia-Pacific Affairs of International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), was invited as the speaker of the seminar.

 

At  the beginning  of  the seminar, Hera Kou, office  supervisor of MACA, introduced

the  basic concept  of  music copyright, MACA’s  mission as well as how to enhance

their  understanding  of copyrights in form of a short video. During the seminar, Ang

told  the students , “put  yourself  in a creator’s  shoes , and  then think about the

importance of copyright to you.” He then used “GANGNAM STYLE”, a recent popular Korean  Song , as an example  to  show  how composers  get  royalties from public 

performances  in  local areas and  over the world.  He also used activities such  as

downloading music from the internet and purchasing music products as examples to let  students  think about how  to  show  respect  to music creators in daily  music

usage.

 

UMAC   students  showed  enthusiasm in  the  Q  &  A section. This  reflects  that

youngsters in Macao do  care  and  have uncertainties  about  the proper usage of

music .  Students  were  also interested  in  the licensing affairs of  public  musical

events in Macao and also expressed their opinions about  how  to  respect creators

and  their  works. Ang was glad that the promotion of music copyright in Macao as

well as the initiative and  independent  thinking of  Macao university  students.  He

presented UMAC with a Regime of Copyright as memento on behalf of MACA.

 

At the end, MACA thanked UMAC and its students for supporting and participating

in  the seminar.  It is important  to raise Macao youngsters’ understanding of music

copyright  and awareness  of  respecting  creative  works.  MACA  hoped  to make

contribution to local  cultural and  creative  industries and  will  continuously   pay

efforts on copyright education for the young people.