Ministry seeking to waive copyright fees


PETALING JAYA: The Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry will initiate talks with the country’s music licensing bodies to find a way to exclude small businesses from having to pay copyright fees.

“We will hold talks with the music licensing bodies to consider not imposing fees or charges on small businesses, which play music on their premises,” its minister Datuk Seri Hasan Malek said in a statement yesterday.

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