{"id":23245,"date":"2017-01-09T08:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23245"},"modified":"2017-01-09T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:25:03","slug":"music-copyright-issue-sends-bulgarian-national-radio-back-to-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/music-copyright-issue-sends-bulgarian-national-radio-back-to-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Music copyright issue sends Bulgarian National Radio back to 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: BBC<\/a> via Mike Terry on the WRTH Facebook Page<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Bulgaria’s public radio broadcaster has been banned from playing millions of contemporary songs because of a row over copyright payments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 1 January, state-funded Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) has been filling its airwaves with classical pieces, jazz and traditional folk music instead, the Novinite news agency reports. It’s locked in a dispute with the non-profit Musicautor organisation, which manages the rights to work by both local and international artists – 14 million pieces of music in total.<\/p>\n

Even the traditional version of the national anthem is off-limits. Listeners tuning in on New Year’s Eve instead heard the BNR symphony orchestra and choir’s take on the tune, Balkan Insight reports, adding that the copyright row means only music made before 1945 can be played. BNR itself says it cannot play “95% of today’s modern music repertoire”.<\/p>\n

Musicautor wants BNR to pay more in royalties – triple the amount it pays at the moment – to bring it more into line with national radio in other EU countries. But radio director Aleksander Velev says that’s impossible unless it gets more funding or drops a regional broadcast, which would “tarnish the radio’s public mission”.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article on the BBC website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: BBC via Mike Terry on the WRTH Facebook Page) Bulgaria’s public radio broadcaster has been banned from playing millions of contemporary songs because of a row over copyright payments. Since 1 January, state-funded Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) has been filling its airwaves with classical pieces, jazz and traditional folk music instead, the Novinite news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,442,3],"tags":[5797,5082,5798,5799,4100,792],"class_list":["post-23245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-news","tag-bnr","tag-bulgaria","tag-bulgarian-national-radio","tag-copyright","tag-music","tag-radio-bulgaria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-62V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18862,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/bulgarian-national-radio-names-alexander-velev-director\/","url_meta":{"origin":23245,"position":0},"title":"Bulgarian National Radio names Alexander Velev director","author":"Thomas","date":"May 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio Bulgaria via David Iurescia, LW4DAF) The Council for Electronic Media elected Alexander Velev as the new Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio. 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