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Please reinstate music royalties to local artistes

Feb 09, 2013 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I am respectfully asking the President and Finance Minister to kindly reinstate music royalties to the Guyanese recording artistes which is our legal rights and which was the annual norm by our only radio station up to 1992.
This international practice which was shared by Guyana up until 1992, ceased when Guyana silently and mysteriously broke ranks with this legal principle in 1993.
Guyana now stands as perhaps the only state with the least number of radio stations and an unhealthy refusal to pay royalties on the music it plays, in accordance with the international copyright laws it has signed.
This matter should be resolved before any additional radio licence should be allocated.
This matter of music copyright royalty was raised in the local press several times over the past 20 years and again during the first quarter of 2012. Reinstatement and compensation for loss was discussed.
Letters dealing with this issue were delivered in April of 2012, to the offices of the Attorney General, leader of APNU and Chairman of AFC.
Kindly correct this situation.
Berkeley Houston
Recording Artiste

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