Ensuring Sabah’s ethnic musicians compensated fairly

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is taking steps to protect its indigenous artistes’ compensation rights over licensing and royalty distribution for all ethnic songs in the state and in Labuan.

Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said the state would prepare a Cabinet paper to endorse Music Rights Sabah Bhd (MRS) to become a licensing agency to protect the rights of ethnic artistes to ensure they get fair compensation, among others.