Analysis of Copyright Law: Protecting Music in Saudi Arabia Context

This essay provides an analysis of copyright laws in Saudi Arabia, specifically focusing on the protection of music and intellectual property rights of artists. It examines the Saudi copyright law issued in 2003, which protects intellectual works, including music, for 50 years after the author's death. The essay discusses various ways copyright laws are violated, such as illegal downloads and sharing of music, leading to copyright infringement. It highlights the measures taken by the law to control copyright infringement, including warnings, fines, closure of infringing outlets, imprisonment, and compensation for the artist. Saudi Arabia's membership in the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works is also mentioned. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding intellectual property laws and the implications of copyright infringement, referencing cases with significant fines to illustrate the magnitude of the violations. Desklib offers similar resources for students.

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Scenario and Analysis
As an artist music one’s music is protected from illegal downloads or sharing by the
copyright Law. In Saud Arabia copyright Laws was issued as per Royal decree No. M/41
dated August 30th 2003. The Saudi copyright Law Protects all of the intellectual works of any
type and the music that one produces fall under this category. The authors rights are protected
until a period of 50 years after his or her death. In this case being an artist, my compositions
are legally protected by the copyright law and copyright infringement is one of the leading
challenges. There are several ways the copyright laws can be violated and are usually
violated within the county, this involves illegal downloads from the internet, sharing of the
music videos or the music content with others. This has significant effect to us the artist and
leads to the loss of value of an artist hard work. This is referred to as copyright infringement.
It is one of the leading problems in the music industry.
The law provides multiple remedies for violation of the copyright laws within the
country; the Copyright laws makes distribution and performance of copyrighted works
illegal. This has been one of the leading challenges in the music industry. One music is easily
duplicated to others making the accessibility of the content very easy. Also, the distribution
of this music content has been a major challenge for the copyright law violation. Different
measures have been taken to control this violation (Field, 2015).
The law has taken different measure to control copyright infringement in the county,
All the copyrightable work is protected once created but to show ownership for the artists,
some jurisdictions require the registration to grant protection as a proof of ownership. Saud
Arabia has been a member state of the Berne Convention for the protection of literary Artistic
works since the year 2004 March 11th. The law has put in place several measure to control this
which includes a warning, this is the first measure as per the law where one is warned against

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this but when this continuous, the law has provisions for fines which do not exceed Saudi
Riyals 250,000. Also, the law advocates for the closer of infringing outlets (Price &
AlDebasi, 2017). This has been one of the most effective ways to fight copyright
infringement. And finally, the law has the provision for imprisonment as well as the
compensation for the owner and in our case the compensation of the artist. This
compensation is usually proportionate to the damage done.
Summary
Copyright laws and how they are violated.
How the law deals with the violation of the copyright laws.
Intellectual property and how its protected.
From the case study and the findings, it has become clear the implications associated with
copyright infringement. This is a particular violation that affects the music industry a lot but
with the set measures in place to control this, it is important for one to gain a deeper
understanding of intellectual property laws. During the research there have been several cases
of people who have been charged with copyright infringement and got charged by the law
with fines of up to$1.5 million. This shows the magnitude of the violations.

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References
Field, L. (2015). Copyright Infringement and Musical Expression: Creating Specific Jury
Instructions for Comparing Music. T. JefferSon l. rev., 38, 152.
Price, D., & AlDebasi, A. (2017). TRIPS and copyright and the nature of compliance in the
Arabian Peninsula. In Protecting Intellectual Property in the Arabian Peninsula (pp.
97-131). Routledge.