May 16, 2011
A rise in songwriter royalties has prompted local producers to suspend work in anticipation of a long fight A woman at the CD section of Nguyen Hue Bookstore in District 1, Ho ChiâMinh City. A recent rise in music royalties has sparked a debate between producers and fee collectors. The Recording Industry Association of [...]
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January 25, 2011
Vietnamese singers Phuong Linh (L) and Ha Anh Tuan perform at a concert Vietnamese songwriters earned a total of VND32.5 billion from music royalties last year, an increase of 40 percent from 2009, a copyright agency reported Saturday. News website VnExpress cited the Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright as saying that most of the money [...]
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February 1, 2010
Vietnam made great strides in ensuring that more copyright fees were paid last year, but the country still hasn’t moved far enough, according to the Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyrights. LookAtVietnam – Vietnam made great strides in ensuring that more copyright fees were paid last year, but the country still hasn’t moved far [...]
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January 31, 2010
A scene from a Ho Chi Minh City Television music show. Vietnam made great strides in ensuring that more copyright fees were paid last year, but the country still hasnât moved far enough, according to the Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyrights. The center collected VND23.3 billion (US$1.3 million) in music royalties last year [...]
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January 17, 2010
When Noi buon chien tranh (The Sorrow of War) was published in 1991, it brought Bao Ninh literary fame Bao Ninh keeps his cell phone off. Heâs on indefinite unpaid leave from his post as editor at Van Nghe (Literature) newspaper. Heâs focused on his new novel, his first since The Sorrow of War, which [...]
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August 31, 2009
Copyright issues are always hot in Vietnam. Sports and Culture Newspaper analyses the situation in Vietnam, focusing on online copyrights. Musicians Nguyen Van Chung and Minh Khang. In the Golden Album show on June 8, 2009 on the HCM City Television (HTV), the host introduced singer Khanh Phuong performing “Chiec Khan Gio Am” by Nguyen [...]
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August 10, 2009
Confusion still reigns in publishing circles over Google’s offer to pay substantial copyright royalities in exchange for the right to digitize and sell electronic copies of over 4000 Vietnamese literary works. Meanwhile, the Vietnam Copyright Center is seeking writers’ proxies to negotiate with Google. Belatedly, Google’s royalties proposal is clarified Google is ‘digitizing’ printed books to [...]
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July 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Some local newspapers last week, including this one, reported that Google would pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to Vietnamese writers. It isn’t true. Google may digitize Vietnamese works for a fee An ‘urban legend’ of sorts has swept through the Vietnamese literary world. On July 10 and 11, a number of Vietnamese newspapers, including [...]
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June 20, 2009
Singers and recording firms say ringtone vendors and other phone content providers are blatantly marketing songs and photos without compensating the owners of the music. The victims (and their lawyer) speak out. The list of companies that breach music copyrights on the Internet and telecom networks.LookAtVietnam – Singers and recording firms say ringtone vendors and [...]
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June 20, 2009
The list of companies that breach music copyrights on the Internet and telecom networks.LookAtVietnam – Artists and recording firms, victims of copyright infringement by content service providers, and lawyers state their opinions about the situation. No need to withdraw business licences: official Digital propheciesRingtone producing “technology”Doing business on bodies of others Truong Thi Thu Dung, Recording Industry Association [...]
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