“ILLEGAL PR IS PROFITABLE”
Support A1+!“Obviously copyright is breached in Armenia more frequently than in other countries. Our singers are partly guilty of it as they don’t protect their author's rights,” Narine Mkrtchian, an expert of author's rights protection, told A1+.
Most authors do not (or do not want) to understand their rights and liabilities because of the ambiguity of the Law on Copyright, Narine Mkrtchian says.
Under the above law, singers can prevent the illegal sale of CDs and demand compensation from falsifiers. According to Narine Mkrtchian, PR is rather expensive for Armenian singers therefore they are not interested in copyright reservation. Obviously, illegal PR is profitable.
Armenian law-enforcement bodies are capable of confiscating unlicensed CDs in case singers want it themselves.
“In some cases our law-enforcement officers confiscated illegal CDs in music stores and wanted to destroy them. On learning this, the singers “got offended” saying that the officers conduct free PR and “poke their nose” into their affairs, says Narine Mkrtchian.
