You may now have to think twice if you thought all artistes would support copyright enforcement. Following the taxation hunt, artistes decided to avenge by lobbying for the effecting of the Copyright law to the dot. Among those who pushed so hard for it are Bobi Wine, Chameleone, Ragga Dee and Geoffrey Lutaaya.
However other artistes are playing on a completely different note.
GNL ZAMBA, the CEO of Baboon Forest entertainment asserted his views of the copyright law.
“I am surprised that only a handful of guys in my trade understand WTF copyright in Uganda is or what it intends to achieve, someone yesterday wanted me to sign on a petition and even tried to convince me that it is a disease......lol i guess what should be done is give this whole hullabaloo time (at least 6months) and educate the players and the public first coz if it has to work, it has to be holistic. NB. Copyright enforcement is inevitable might happen in my generation if UPRS shows transparency and if the authority is willing to commit minds to education of the law first before enforcement.”
According to GNL, artistes don’t really understand what they are lobbying for and it will hurt the upcoming artistes whose music needs to be played. Prof Bigg eye also added his views on the issue by saying that everyone in Uganda has a right to his music since he was not yet under copyright. To further back-up GNL, Navio shared his status on his facebook page.
One of Professors fans had this to comment about his anti copyright law Facebook status status, "wats wrong wit t,thout it will put a smile on yo face,we r safe,im in d movie sector,but these guys wea eatin our wrks,im hppy 4 t bro." Another fan, Ricky, had this to say "Wats that copyright bullsh** ? U guyz want to mean we wont hv musik in our Cars ??? House ??? Office ??? Coz we gut to give u some dimes , we hv supported u enough coz I understand it people who come to these launches of yours so dnt bother us ....Ok....
"Andrea The Don" - Keeps up to date with breaking news, stories from around the World, including headlines from the hip hop and entertainment world.