BAJAN SUN MAGAZINE
DEC 2014
Bringing Value to Music In Barbados
By Erica Smith
T
he Copyright Society of Composers,
performers and record companies. Copyright is a
Authors
Incorporated
bundle of rights and these include: the right to
(COSCAP) is what has been traditionally called a
authorize the distribution, broadcast, public
copyright society but nowadays it is more often
performance and the reproduction or copying of
called a collective management organisation
works. In many cases these rights are exclusive
(CMO).
The holders of copyright and similar
which means that the permission of the rights
rights called neighbouring or related rights are
holder has to be obtained in advance. In practical
granted certain rights in their literary and artistic
terms what this means is that in the case of the
works. For example, the authors of books, visual
broadcast of music