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.

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).