Mati Caspi celebrates his 72nd birthday today (Tuesday), but instead of celebrating it in Israel with his fans, he raises a critical and angry post about the government's conduct, also mentioning a "special gift" he received as a musician.
"Hello everyone, today I mark 72 years. This is my first and last time," Caspi opened the post he posted on his official Facebook page.
"The most 'exciting' gift I have received from the Israeli government, apart from the fact that it has prevented me from appearing in front of my audience off stage since March 2020, is another low expression of the prestigious collection of shamelessness the country is proud to hold, and the understander will understand," the singer wrote Of a memorandum received from ACUM:
Hello, tomorrow, 1.12 is the last day to file objections to the Ministry of Justice's law memorandum seeking to infringe on the copyright of each and every one of you members of ACUM, and members of other rights management organizations such as Eshkolot, Ilam, Tali, the Federation of Records and Hefi "To.
If you are a member of one or more of these organizations, know that if the memorandum of law passes, the result will be a fatal violation of your proprietary right. "
The memorandum that angered Caspi is the Memorandum of the Corporate Law for the Joint Management of Copyright and Operations of the Ministry of Justice.
It is based on a request for a joint management arrangement of the copyrights or performers by corporations that deal with licensing users, collecting usage fees from users, enforcing the rights, and dividing the royalties collected between the rights holders entitled to royalties according to law and corporation rules.
It is proposed that the playing and playing of music in small businesses or certain institutions will not be considered a "public performance" and as a result will not be charged a royalty at all.
To date, the existing law states that a business owner seeking to use music is required to reach agreements with each of the rights holders on the music he seeks to use, a cumbersome and complex process that is almost impossible to perform in the field due to multiple rights holders.
To try to overcome this difficulty, corporations were set up to jointly manage the copyrights or promoters and these dealt with licensing, collecting usage fees, enforcing the rights and distributing the royalties to the creators and promoters entitled to them.
Today there are about five corporations of this type that hold different rights, and they must be contacted in order to obtain a license to play the music, which of course involves a fee.
This conduct has created many difficulties over the years, the main one being the conduct of the business market vis-à-vis the corporations, the manner in which the tariffs for royalties are determined, and so on.
Now, as stated, an attempt is being made to settle the matter, with whoever now wants to play music in public, working with a single corporation instead of the multiplicity of corporations currently operating.
The corporation will set uniform tariffs, and at the same time distribute the royalties collected to the creditors or the corporations that represent them.
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