(To Quoc) - In 2024, the total amount of money collected from using music copyrights by the Vietnam Center for Music Copyright Protection (VCPMC) was over 393 billion VND, an increase of 14.2% compared to 2023. The above information was announced by Meritorious Artist, musician Dinh Trung Can, General Director of the Vietnam Center for Music Copyright Protection at the 2024 year-end summary ceremony, held on January 8 in Hanoi.
According to musician Dinh Trung Can, of the total of over 393 billion VND in royalties collected in 2024, the amount of royalties collected on digital platforms, through websites and music applications reached over 305 billion VND (accounting for 78%). In 2024, the Center paid nearly 257 billion VND in royalties to copyright owners. It is expected that in January 2025, the Center will pay about 94 billion VND in royalties for the fourth quarter of 2024 to authors/copyright owners.
Musician Dinh Trung Can said that in order to protect the rights and legitimate interests of member authors, the Center has recently surveyed, collected documents and evidence, and filed lawsuits in court for many cases of copyright infringement, typically in the fields of performance rights and copying rights. Up to now, the legal departments of the two regions have handled a total of 79 lawsuits for copyright infringement, intellectual property disputes, and contract disputes; 34 cases have been resolved, the rest are in the process of being resolved; in addition, there are many cases and hundreds of online links (copying works) that are currently collecting documents and evidence to handle violations.
Meritorious Artist, musician Dinh Trung Can, General Director of the Vietnam Center for Music Copyright Protection, spoke.
Musician Dinh Trung Can shared that in 2024, the Center often encountered difficulties in licensing the use of rights and protecting rights in the performance field, due to the complicated situation of copyright infringement in the performance organization field, including domestic and international shows. Many units still lack awareness and voluntarily fulfill their obligations to pay royalties, finding ways to make things difficult and avoid fulfilling their obligations. Currently, a series of copyright-infringing programs are in the process of handling infringements according to legal procedures.
In addition, in the fields of restaurant, coffee, hotel services (using background music), there are still many units that are avoiding the obligation to pay for copyright use. In the field of pay TV, many units are delaying the implementation...
In particular, in the context of the actual music market and the regulations on copyright management planning that have not been thoroughly implemented, the Center is facing many conflicts of rights arising from other units. This not only seriously affects the operation and progress of the Center but also causes disturbance, inconvenience and trouble for users. The greater consequence is causing serious damage to authors, when many people, due to lack of caution, have permanently lost their legitimate rights and interests, and lost valuable assets that are the crystallization of creative labor - musical works, their own brainchild.
Representative of Vietnam Musicians Association awarded Certificate of Merit to the Vietnam Music Copyright Protection Center.
The General Director of the Vietnam Music Copyright Protection Center said that in 2025, the Center will continue to focus on licensing music use, maintaining and increasing income from royalties for member authors, enhancing data reconciliation and processing to distribute and pay royalties to authors and owners. The Center will also be more active in reviewing and surveying the music usage market, handling copyright violations, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of member authors; focusing on caring for and developing members, resolving complaints, providing legal advice to member authors, organizing mediation when there are disputes and recommendations from member authors, etc.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Hoai Son, Standing Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education, said: In many countries, the copyright industry is considered the core of the cultural industry, so in the music field, in recent years, we have done very well in this, especially with the extremely important role of the Vietnam Music Copyright Protection Center.
According to Mr. Bui Hoai Son, one of the concerns for everyone is how to make a living from their profession, so that they can devote themselves wholeheartedly to their creative career and society can benefit from that wholeheartedness. To do so, copyright protection must be done well.
“Thanks to the efforts of the Vietnam Center for Music Copyright Protection in recent times, the rights of many authors have been protected, and authors have more confidence not only in the center's activities, but also in their own creative careers. This has inspired the whole society, especially in developing an advanced Vietnamese music industry, imbued with national identity, and more professionally reaching out to the world,” Mr. Bui Hoai Son shared./.
Source: https://toquoc.vn/thu-gan-400-ty-dong-tien-tac-quyen-am-nhac-trong-nam-2024-20250108212437317.htm
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