Creative industries put spotlight on illegal streaming in WIPD 2018

Every year, World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD) marks the ongoing impact that intellectual property rights (IPR) make in encouraging innovation and creativity. In the creative sphere, patents, trademarks and copyrights are essential to protecting the work of original content creators, enabling them to profit from their work and fuel their next big idea.

As part of the Philippines’ commemoration of WIPD, the local creative industry honors the genius and courage of Filipino men and women who are shaping local cinema, TV, music, literature and other artistic fields – those who inspire the next generation of content creators, raise the bar for these industries, and champion legal means of content consumption.

Rise Against Movie Piracy Philippines Extends Deadline; Makes Last Call for Entries to Video Competition

Rise Against Movie Piracy Philippines (RAMP-PH) a video-making competition, today announced a deadline extension for submission of entries to September 25, 2016. Consolation prizes include a Canon Vixia HF video camera, and video-editing software. For the grand prize winner, one lucky student will be entitled to an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles, California, USA to participate in the LATC Global Film & Television Program 2016, a full-time, intensive 40-hour course open to filmmakers, media managers, lawyers, professors, executives and government officials from all over the world.

Open to students who are currently enrolled in film or media-related courses in Metro Manila, video entries must be no more than 60 seconds long and explain why Filipinos should respect copyrighted content or what should be done to protect IPR online. The video-making competition aims to raise awareness on the importance of respecting movies, TV shows, music and other copyrighted content by obtaining these only through legal means

Rise Against Movie Piracy Philippines Launched, Contest to Promote Prevention of Online Piracy

The Intellectual Property Office Philippines (IPOPHL), Motion Picture Association (MPA), United States Embassy, and the Korean Copyright Commission (KCC), along with the country’s leading video-on-demand service providers Blink, Hooq and iflix, launched Rise Against Movie Piracy Philippines (RAMP-PH) a video-making contest for Metro Manila-based film students to raise awareness on the importance of respecting copyrighted content by obtaining them only through legal means.

The contest seeks to encourage today’s youth to support films by watching the theatrical release and refraining from pirated media such as torrents or peer-to-peer sites. As digital natives, today’s youth consume content mainly online through their mobile or PC devices. By patronizing legal sources such as subscription-based streaming services, Filipino TV and movie fans help the creative community to continue making movies and TV programs that audiences love.

Protecting OPM with SoundsRight

Recently OPM gets support with a collective effort of recoding labels as well as offices involved in keeping rights of songs protected. Sound Recording Rights Society, Inc. (Soundsright),  is a Collective Management Organization (CMO) which was recently accredited by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) to represent the record labels and producers in the Philippines. 

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) presented the Certificate of accreditation to Soundsright Officers and Board Members on May 14, 2015 at Victorino's, Quezon City. Respresentatives of the various labels  and governing bodies were present like Mr. Rene Salta (GMA Records), Mr. Alvin de Vera (Alpha Music), Soundsright President Atty. Marivic Benedicto (Star Recording / ABS CBN Film Productions), Soundsright Chairman Mr. Ramon Chuaying (Universal Records), Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) OIC Atty. Allan Gepty, OMB Chairman Ronnie Ricketts, and Mr. Tony Ocampo (Viva/Vicor Music).

Soundsright authorizes business establishments to use copyrighted sound recordings owned by the member record labels and producers and collect royalties on behalf of the copyright owners under section 209 of the Intellectual Property Code (Republic Act No. 8293).