Pinoy artists get huge boost
The Copyright Plus is BCRR’s flagship program aimed at helping marginalized creators realize the economic and cultural benefits of copyright and protection through registration
Following the calls of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to uplift the creative industry that were badly hit during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (iPHOPHl) said it stands firm in helping realize the urgent national goal of uplifting Filipino artists, by raising awareness in the copyright environment and support the faster economic recovery of under-resourced artists.
iPOPHl director general Rowell Barba revealed that it has initiated copyright projects for the creative economy’s recovery of under-resourced artists, in which this year’s projects are proposed by several artists and funded under the Bureau of Copyright and Related Rights’ (BCRR) Copyright Plus Program with an overall budget of P1.2 million.
The Copyright Plus is BCRR’s flagship program aimed at helping marginalized creators realize the economic and cultural benefits of copyright and protection through registration.
“Our Copyright Plus Program will be a major enabler in equipping Filipino artists with sufficient knowledge on the full breadth of their copyright and related rights. it will fulfill the pursuit of our President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., who reiterated in his 1st State of the Nation Address the need to accelerate the recovery of Philippine artists,” Barba said.
To recall, Marcos — in first SoNA — cited iP rights issues as one of the challenges stifling the creative industry.
in line with this, Barba said iPOPHl will stand firm in helping realize the urgent national goal of uplifting Filipino artists, the very people to whom we owe our cultural pride and identity as Marcos emphasized.
Different Pinoy artists’ projects are also being supported by various organizations.
One such project is the in Certain Seasons Mothers Write — which is a project of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ intertextual Division and the Philippine PEN in support of mothers and their written creations during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The project proponents reported observing a steady amount of male-written literary works online. intertextual Division officer-in-charge Beverly Sy saw this gap as a window to highlight the stories of mothers and their struggles during the lockdown.
Dance of Disabilities, on the other hand, is likhaPH Outreach Program’s to explore and promote choreographic works that take into consideration the body’s physical limitations and the movements-based study is to be made in cooperation with Sports Science experts, which also aims to raise awareness of disabilities through dance.
Meantime, the indayog Summer Camp is a dance workshop held last April in Marikina City, which provided folk, ballet, contemporary, jazz, hiphop, ballroom, KPop and interpretative dance classes to the youth. Project proponent and artistic director Ronald Vincent Soliven was inspired by the parents in the city who cannot afford recreational classes for their children. The camp provided an avenue for children to discover arts, culture and copyright through dance.
The Freelance Writer’s Guild of the Philippines, meanwhile, is an organization of freelance writers from different parts of the Philippines which is producing an e-book titled Protect Writer’s Works to answer the most common questions the book industry has about iP.