It’s all about the money, not about the music: No to House Bill 4218 (OPM Development Act of 2014)

“We, musicians, performers and artists uniting or affiliated with the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, say no to the House Bill (HB) 4218 introduced by Rep. Teddy Brawner Baguilat in March 2014.

HB 4218 purports to pursue the “promotion, protection and development of the Philippine music industry” by supporting original Filipino music and guarding against the preferential treatment of foreign music. It grants to the National Committee on Music (NCM), a sub commission of the National Committee for Culture and the Arts, the power to regulate performances and collect reciprocal equity fees from foreign artists, the income of which to be re-channeled to an equity fund for local artists. The bill also proposes to give tax credits to broadcast organisations which will play a minimum of four works of original Pilipino music, as stipulated in Executive Order 255.

The bill’s vision of supporting the Philippine music industry sounds good at first glance. However, its proposed mechanisms for implementing these in practice fail to address longstanding problems within the community of local musicians, performers and composers and the Philippine music industry in general..”Concerned Artists of the Philippines

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