Copyright and turkish music

Copyright protects original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. It allows an original work to be considered a property that is owned by somebody.

In music, copyright begins automatically once a piece of music is created, and documented or recorded (eg. on video, tape or CD or simply writing down the notation of a score).

The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from central asian folk music and music from ottoman empire dominions such as Persian music, balkan music and byzantine music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences. In turn, it has influenced these cultures through the ottoman empire Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across europe, north africa, the middle east, the caucasus and south and central asia.

Many Turkish cities and towns have vibrant local music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles. Despite this however, western-style pop music lost popularity to arabesque in the late 70s and 80s, with even its greatest proponents ajda pekkan and sezen aksu falling in status. It became popular again by the beginning of the 1990s, as a result of an opening economy and society. With the support of Aksu, the resurging popularity of pop music gave rise to several international Turkish pop stars such as tarkan and sertab erener. The late 1990s also saw an emergence of underground music producing alternative turkish rock, electronica, hiphop and rap and dance music in opposition to the mainstream corporate arabesque and pop genres, which many believe have become too commercial.

Before 2 years, four major music collecting societies in Turkey, representing authors (MESAM & MSG), phonogram producers (MU-YAP) and performers (MUYORBIR) joined forces to sign a copyright agreement with the Television Broadcasters Association representing 55 leading TV channels in Turkey, constituting approximately 90 % of the television broadcasting sector.

Many of turkish singers participated to this. And now turkey has copyrigt law like europen countries. Because from this turkish singers are in pleasure at the moment and turkish music in safe.