A Registry of Filipino Performing Artists and their works : OPM's response to the music industry's issues of piracy and payola

Abstract

This thesis aims to prove that OPM’s current project, ne Registry of Filipino Artists and Their Works, is an adequate response to the issues ©0f the Philippine Music industry namely piracy and payola. OPM or the Organisasyon ne Pilipinong Mang-aawit is a non-profit organization that is composed of various artists mainly in the field of music with common goal to protect the artist’s rights to his own artistic creation. In the pursuit to raise the welling of Filipino artists and their rights OPM designed a project entitled, “The Registry of Filipino Artists and their Works”. The project aims to protect the intellectual property rights oi the artist. Chapter I deals with the introduction, the statement of the problem, the significance and objectives of the study, and the methodology. Chapter II contains the organization profile of OPM. It includes a brief history OPM, Organizational Structure, VMOS, and SWOT Analysis. Chapter III is the data gathering. It contains a discussion of the issues in the music industry piracy and payola, a discussion of the Intellectual property rights and the nature of the project. And the last chapter contains the analysis and conclusion with the recommendation of the author.