In the recent time music business has attracted so many young people that some of them took it a little bit far to the extend of owning and illegally distributing the content of some artists with no information or perhaps little information which may not even be detailed. Copyright infringement and plagiarism is a behavior that can be prosecuted in court if reported. According to the US Copyright office, “copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner” which otherwise was the case Neetah Baby complained about.
Currently Neetah baby is among the few artist in South Sudan’s music industry including other online entertainers who have never had the privilege to benefit from their contents created on YouTube especially through royalty payments from for one reason or the other however other individuals talking advantage of the situation and working so hard to rip from what they did not sow is not allowed and never a good moral standard. In her warning to the management of Junub TV, South Sudan Music TV and many others practicing the same behavior, she hinted on having stayed close to 7 years in the entertainment industry working day and night just for some idlers to steal her work in the name of promotion yet some are for selfish individual interests of such people.
However, copyright infringement related situations in Our country may as well be blamed on our artists, Entertainers or simply the content creators in the industry of entertainment because most of them do not give attention to music copyrights hence their contents aren’t copyrighted and can hardly protected from such activities. To put more light on the same issue we also face the challenges of entertainers not even owning official YouTube channels that are known to their fans hence giving the culprits chances to even receivers promote their own channels ahead of that of the artists.
Songstress Neetah Baby
Therefore, however we shall in the strongest terms condemn copyright infringement and music plagiarism we would like to urge every Junubin artist including Neetah Baby to begin professionalizing their music including finding ways to copyright their songs, with seven (7) years in the game you should have learn this sometimes back but we understand there’s no specific time to learn anything. Yes, these artists do not have cars, walk on foot from Club to Club or even from one radio station to another just to make sure their songs play, we would also advise that to copyright your content is not selfishness but protecting what you struggled to assemble for sale and no one has any right to eat from it except you, your family, friends and management or otherwise they get a token from you willingly and not by stealing and selling your content. Therefore, copyright and monetize your channel for the better.