The Eastern Caribbean Collective Organization for Music Rights (ECCO) has begun a radio programme on Kairi FM Radio.
The programme is hosted by ECCO member, Daryl Bobb, and will air every first Tuesday of every month from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
According to ECCO chairman, Mc Carthy Marie, the objective of the programme is twofold.
In the first case the programme is intended to give useful information to ECCO members on the business of their organization.
Secondly the programme will allow music users and the general public to interact with Daryl Bobb and his guests on questions relating to intellectual property, particularly the collective management of music rights. The programme will be interactive and listeners can call in with their questions to the host and his guests.
The programme is part of the drive across among the Copyright societies in all the member countries of CARICOM to step up their enforcement of copyright protection for the benefit of their own members and the wider community of creators, composers, and songwriters worldwide whose public performance rights are entrusted to ECCO and its sister societies in the CARICOM.
In related news the Jamaica Gleaner is reporting that cable viewers in Jamaica are to lose a number of US channels because the distribution, by cable, of these channels were not authorized by the US broadcasters and/or copyright owners in particular HBO channels.
This move is reportedly comes after the Summit of the Americas in Panama whereby intellectual property issue featured prominently on the agenda. It is widely expected that similar action will be taken elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Further information is available from the Jamaica Gleaner.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20150424/local-viewers-lose-several-cable-channels-operators-ordered-cease
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