IFPI Hosts Anti-Piracy Concert ‘The First Kind of Sound’
IFPI 舉辦「第一種聲音—中華民國反盜錄演唱會」
Source: Music as the Practice of Citizens’ Cultural Rights: A Review and Critique of Popular Music Policy
From: Scarcity amid Abundance: Reflections and Reconstruction of Communication Policy
Date: 2012. Authors: Chien Miao-ju, Cheng K’ai-tung
From 1986 onward, the eleven domestic record companies that had grown powerful in the wake of the campus folk song movement established the IFPI Taiwan chapter and became an active lobbying group pressing the government on industry policy. Their main demands were: that the government enact copyright and related legislation, use state authority to crack down on counterfeiting and piracy — in short, “combating piracy” — and strengthen public education on copyright protection.
Notable campaigns included: the 1987 “The First Sound — ROC Anti-Piracy Concert”; the 1992 “3-21 Anti-Piracy Petition March”; the 1999 “End Piracy, Defend Originals” rally; and the 2004 “4-04 Anti-Piracy March.” From 2002 to 2006, successive lawsuits were filed against unlicensed domestic P2P operators Ezpeer and Kuro. Even at the 2010 Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Premier Wu Dun-yi and GIO Director-General Chiang Chi-ch’en still proclaimed in their speeches: to protect musical creation, the government would spare no effort in combating piracy.