The incident related to BH Media, Lululola, 1900 Group, May Sai Gon (producing the May Lang Thang program series), The Voice of Life... is attracting great attention from public opinion.
The move from the Ministry of Public Security is considered a strong handling step, directly impacting the "free-use" thinking that has existed for a long time in the entertainment and digital content fields.
The situation of using music without permission, without paying copyright fees on digital platforms and performing stages has long become a "hot spot" of the Vietnamese entertainment market.
Although artists have repeatedly spoken out to reflect, and many exploitation units have been accused of copyright infringement, controversies often only erupt for a short time on social networks and then quickly subside.
For many years, the problem of protecting music copyright has not been thoroughly solved, causing the rights of creators to be continuously affected.
Talking to Lao Dong reporters, musician Nguyen Van Chung said: "I have been too familiar with being stolen of my intellectual property and profits, since the first time in 2008 (in the field of waiting bell music).
That time was truly a shock of loss that I had to endure on my career path, what do you feel when you read the summary of waiting ringtones revenue from network operators for 1 of your hit songs is 1.7 billion VND, but the recipient is not you. When I asked the singer's crew directly, I received a casual answer to let things pass and gave me 30 million VND to comfort me?
After that, musician Nguyen Van Chung became more cautious in documents, agreements, and contracts, but technology developed too quickly, and new platforms appeared a lot, making it impossible for him to control everything. He himself was also once deceived.
Then after that, I was approached and persuaded by a person claiming to be a copyright lawyer specializing in demanding justice for musicians that if I signed a power of attorney for him, he would help me get back the lost money. But who knew that he himself would bring the power of attorney for those songs to continue to sign and sell to other companies to benefit.
And then there are scams from other companies, larger in scale with more sophisticated tricks using words embedded in contracts. Through each case, I learn more and more experience for myself," he said.
The author of the hit "Continuing the story of peace" believes that speaking out to demand rights from his songs is very normal.
Demanding rights for what is worthy of being received from the fruits of labor is a very normal thing in society, similar to going to work to be paid and have rights protected" - musician Nguyen Van Chung said.
When functional agencies intervened and prosecuted many business owners for copyright infringement, the male musician said that it was a welcome sign.
That makes me believe that I am about to be truly protected, that intellectual property thieves will be severely punished, that music copyright will be respected, not like before, resentful without knowing who to sue, how to sue and when will I be returned to my things that were stolen by bad guys!", he said.
Nguyen Van Chung (born in 1983) is one of the prominent musicians of the current music market.
He is the author of a series of hit songs associated with many generations of audiences such as "Nhật ký của mẹ", "Chiếc khăn gió ấm", "Mùa đông không lạnh" or "Em luôn ở trong tâm trí anh". Recently, he has the songs "Viết tiếp câu chuyện hòa bình", "Nỗi đau giữa hòa bình" loved by young people.
Not only successful in youth music, Nguyen Van Chung is also known as a young musician who composes many of the best children's songs with about 300 songs carrying educational and humanistic messages.
Besides his outstanding music career, he also constantly learns when studying formally in Music Pedagogy at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music in order to improve his expertise and contribute more to art.
