Apolat Legal is a company which serviced for legal advisory and prosecution representative to conciliate copyrights and related rights between a famous singer and the largest music streaming site of Vietnam about uploading, streaming songs which are protected by copyrights and related rights without permission from copyrights owner. In pursuant to published information, this case shall be considered as the first dispute between a famous singer and the largest music streaming site of Vietnam which was dominating the music market, and also operating as a social network.
In this case, the key is to determine the formula to calculate the number of the views and how to charge them when the parties do not have any formal agreement. Moreover, the case developed complexly under circumstance of Vietnam still does not have transparent Intellectual Property regulations and close to the international standard about responsibilities of the intermediary organizations on the internet.
The question is “Shall the intermediary organization take responsibilities to a song which is uploaded into the organization’s network by another user?”
As the organization which represents for the plaintiff, all lawyers in APOLAT LEGAL have taken steps to review the case, represent to negotiation, conciliate at the court and achieved certain results. The result of this case shall be considered as the first step of the effort to execute effectively the regulations of Intellectual Property law in Vietnam internet environment.
