This threat has already been uttered. Media owners in the city of Les Cayes acted the same way when Willems Edouard, BHDA main speaker who outlined what constitutes a copyright. Like their predecessors, these media owners in the Artibonite have taken the easy route: they stopped showing the creations of Haitian artists if they had to buy the rights and pay royalties. Instead, they only downloaded and distributed foreign music and films. His comments reflected a certain form of ignorance, given that Article 53 of the Decree of October 12, 1977 o
Copyrights discussed in Gonaïves: artists and media together?
As part of its campaign to raise the awareness of copyrights, BHDA visited the Artibonite Department. Gonaïves hosted the staff of the Haitian Bureau of Copyrights on September 4, 2014. The topic: The rights of singers and musicians. The public, and those who were very interested, mainly musicians, singers, journalists, and media owners, attended. Artists remained true defenders of media owners, even though some of them have threatened to stop broadcasting their pieces.
Par Le Nouvelliste
18 sept. 2014 | Lecture : 2 min.