Singer-songwriter and producer Daddy Andre believes that Ugandans are many miles away from having a functioning copyright regulation.
He says that primarily based on what he noticed on the conferences he attended on the Uganda Nationwide Musicians Federation (UNMF), no signal confirmed any efforts of attempting to implement and amend the copyright regulation.
He defined that each time he attended the conferences and tried to usher in the technicalities for the implementation of the regulation, his views would at all times be sidelined.
This pressured him to ditch the conferences and go away the federation.
Andre additional famous that the federation was set as much as meet private positive aspects for some people which has not helped the trade in any respect. He additionally famous that Eddy Kenzo’s appointment because the Senior Presidential Advisor on Creatives has not been impactful to the trade.
Based mostly on what I noticed and skilled on the UNMF, copyright implementation won’t ever occur within the Ugandan music trade. I left the federation as a result of I realized that the folks there have been solely keen on private acquire and I give up.
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