The country’s music industry scored a major legal victory last week following the Supreme Court’s decision that affirmed the right of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Inc. (Filscap) to collect royalties from the use of its members’ copyrighted works, and sue for copyright infringement to protect these members’ interests. According to the en banc decision penned by Associate Justice Rodil V. Zalameda, commercial establishments must pay for the use of copyrighted music that
Non-stop negatives covering politics, economics, and education can be overwhelming to citizens who are directly affected, but more so for societal leaders. Each Filipino family or citizen copes as best he or she can, the collective problem broken down to per unit or individual. National leaders, though, need to look at the whole. Not all societal leaders are politicians or bureaucrats, yet most are. While there may be leaders from the business, religious, academic, and labor sectors, national government leaders bear the brunt of the responsibility for poverty. Most recently, we were jolted into attention by the least discussed – learning
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