Important Announcement : Deeds Of Assignments


MACP IS THE LEGAL OWNER OF PERFORMING AND COMMUNICATION TO PUBLIC RIGHTS IN THE MUSICAL WORKS OF ITS MEMBERS IN MALAYSIA
By virtue of Deeds of Assignments, MACP obtains and is the legal owner of the performing and communication to the public rights in musical works at the time they are created, as well as for future copyrights created by its members. MACP also owns or controls for Malaysia, the performing and communication to the public rights in the musical works written by the members of its affiliated societies operating in various parts of the world such as the United States of America (USA), United Kingdom, Australia, Frances, Germany, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, namely members of CISAC (the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers).
It has been brought to our attention that there are third-party service providers representing to music users that they have been granted similar rights, including rights of our members and offer licensing services to their clients containing musical works from MACP’s repertoire.
We urge third-party service providers to cease offering your services that contain musical works from MACP’s repertoire without express written permission from MACP, immediately. As long as you include MACP’s repertoire in your services, any music user licensed by you remains liable for copyright infringement for use of those musical works if carried without a MACP licence, making both parties liable under the civil and criminal provisions of the Copyright Act 1987.
Please also be informed that by virtue of the aforementioned deeds of assignments, no MACP member is able to legally contract away from the performing and communication to the public rights in his/her current or future musical works without first terminating his/her MACP membership.
We also wish to appeal to all MACP members to refrain from agreeing to allow your musical works to any third-party service provider and to abide by the mandate assigned to MACP.
If you have any queries regarding the above, please feel free to contact us at general@macp.com.my. The interests of our members and their musical rights are always our first commitment.
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