Most Musicians in Uganda Don't Have Copyright for Their Songs, Says UCC.

📸: Group of some musicians attending plenary session in Parliament as they went to raise their grievances.

Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has revealed that most prominent musicians in Uganda don’t own rights to the songs they sing, because they sold their copyrights to record companies & promoters, saying even if the Copyright law is amended, they will still not commercially benefit from their music.

"Some of the musicians that we interact with, aren’t the owners of the songs they sing because it is one thing to perform a song & another to be the owner of the copyright. Many of these artists work under labels or companies that create facilities for them, write songs for them, & they get one vocal artist to perform that song. So even when you are negotiation, who to pay money, they don’t pay this artist you see on TV, you pay the person who owns the rights & this is one of the biggest challenges," Dr. Abudu Waiswa, Lead of Legal and Compliances.

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