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NCN enforces copyright
Jun 11, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
It is amazing the way people use your rights without your permission in this country, Guyana, and you can t stop them even if you call the police or you go to court. Maybe if you were G.B.T. I, Banks DIH, DDL, Gafoor’s, NBIC or Toolsie Persaud and you have the monies to defend your company it can work.
The copyright laws in Guyana were adhered to in the 1950s to the 1980s. Then it became a free for all in Guyana.
Nobody cares anymore. If you tell them to stop pirating CDs or DVDs they think that you are mad. The people who now pirate CDs and DVDs feel that this is a God given right that they can do this without thinking about the person(s) who have invested their hard earned monies in a particular project.
The shops and cart men who sell all of these pirated goods know that no one can take them to court and get a conviction because all over the country Tom, Dick and Harry are doing the same thing and are making millions of dollars from all of the musicians, actors and actresses hard sweat.
Well now NCN Television which is protected by the Government of Guyana is now going to broadcast World Cup football being held in Brazil. For the last three weeks you have been hearing on the airwaves that NCN Television owns the rights to broadcast the 2014 World Cup football in Guyana.
If, and only if, NCN Television decides to give written permission to any of our TV stations in Guyana the rights to also broadcast the 2014 football World Cup, only then we the people will be able to see the football World Cup on another channel.
NCN Television is now showing musicians, actors and actresses in this country called Guyana that it is the government station and you dare not touch this product because the station has paid millions of dollars for the television rights.
If anyone of the owners from the TV arena decides to show the 2014 football World Cup they are going to be in very serious trouble. So I don t think that these TV stations are not going to adhere to the advert that everyone is airing on the airwaves (don’t touch this football world cup 2014).
This is what the musicians, actors and actresses have been waiting for in Guyana. The government must now flex its muscles against piracy but it must not only be for NCN Television. It must also be for the creative people of this nation who don’t mind investing their monies in a project but also getting protection from the government of Guyana to get it back with a plus.
Musicians, actors and actresses in Guyana are very timid simply because most of them have never been out of this country and they don t know that musicians, actors and actresses in other countries make a serious living from their trade.
The copyright laws are adhered to in most of the countries that are very progressive in the arts and culture field. The people in the arts and culture field in Guyana worry too much about people seeing them on stage.
They should be worried about making a good living from what they do best and speaking out against what harms them from making a proper living.
Rudy Grant
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