On 5 February 2018, the Minister of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism, YB Dato’ Seri Hamzah Zainudin, officiated the launch of Music Rights Malaysia Bhd (MRM) as the sole licensing body for collective music royalty collection activities in Malaysia.
On 17 January 2018, MACP had the pleasure of having MyIPO’s new Director of Copyright Division, Puan Rashidah Ridha Binti Sheikh Khalid at our office together with Encik Noor Aliff Bin Musa, the Assistant Director at the Copyright Division, and Encik Zulkarnain Bin Muhammad, the Deputy Director General (Strategic & Technical), Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO).
As informed to all attendees by our Chairperson Pn Habsah Hassan at the recent Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 16 June 2017, MACP is facing a challenging time since receiving the directive from the Government to form a one-stop collecting body for all four licensing bodies (MACP, PPM, PRISM and RPM) in Malaysia.
The new body, Music Rights Malaysia (MRM) Berhad, was finally declared a licensing body on 1 August 2017. Although the licence allows MRM to collect retrospectively from 1 January 2017, we do not expect MRM to be able to catch up on full collection due for the year 2017 by this year end.
Therefore, we regret to inform all Members that MACP is unable to give any royalty advance or grant under the Music Development Fund (MDF) for the time being until further notice.
On 24 March 2017, the Malaysian music industry lost one of our prominent and prolific music composers, Allahyarham Johan Bin Mohamed Nawawi (Johan Nawawi), who passed away as a result of a heart condition.
He is well-known for churning out popular ballad songs performed by Nora, Liza Aziz, Sheila Majid, Fauziah Latiff, Siti Nurhaliza, Ning Baizura, Erra Fazira and many more. Some of his popular songs include Sinaran (Sheila Majid), Desa Tercinta (Nora), Naluri (Nora), Jentayu (Sheila Majid & Nora).
MACP hosted a 2-day training for 2 officials from The Collective Organisation for Music Rights in Pakistan (COMP), a newly set-up multi-rights CMO. The training cum study visit was organized by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). COMP was represented by Mr. Umer Sheikh, Chief Executive and Mr. Teymour Aslam, Licensing Manager.
A briefing cum dialogue session conducted by Ms SK Ng, MACP’s Documentation & Distribution Manager attracted 31 representatives from 22 publishing companies.
The briefing this time focused on giving publisher members practical training on how to use MACP’s online work search more effectively; to register works; notify performances of works in films, commercial or overseas; update changes of their particulars and works online.
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