Teacher asked to pay 50,000 TL for using Kazım Koyuncu song

In Adana, a teacher named Kadir Can Uslu wasfaced with a demand afterusing visuals prepared for the OrangeBlossom Carnival, set to Kazım Koyuncu's song "Uy Aha," with themusidue to a post he made on TikTok using the song, Kazım Koyuncu's heirsdemanded royalties. Koyuncu's relatives filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutor's office against theteacher becauseof thecopyrightThe teacher went to the police to give a statement.

"THEY AREDEMANDINGCOMPEN SATIONPAYMENT"

After giving his statement to the police regarding the matter, hemade statements Teacher Uslu stated that if this is the case, they would have to penalize thousands of people, saying, "Everyone uses the music of the artist they lovein their musiI am uploading it. If the workswe post to our social media accountsare going to come back to us as a penalty,then let's not use any music at all.I am.

Kazım Koyuncu is an artist we love,infact, I even visited his grave in Artvin. They are asking for nearly 50,000 liras from me. The social media platform upload it thinking that it is being paidfor. Copyrighted music on social media platformseither needs to be muted or requires an agreement. It seemed very absurd, I hopewe do not have to pay a penalty.

Regarding people's copyrights needs to pay attention. After all, effort was put into creating the song. However, we upload the musicwe love becausewe don't know.It needs to be specified whether this music is copyrighted or not. These copyrightsshould be paid by the social media platforms. I thought they were paying them," he said.

"SHOULDROYALTIES BE COLLECTED FROM EVERYONE WHO HUMS A SONG"LAWYER NAZAN AKÇA

reminded that there is Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, stating,"Article 71 of this lawregulates the criminal sanctions related to intellectual and artistic works. The point to be noted here is that the useof such workswhether it carries a commercial gainpurpose.Citizens can listen to any music they wish and share this music on their social media accounts for personal use. In this case, there can be no criminal or financial sanctioninvolved. The important thing is whether these works are broadcastfor commercial purposes or not. If there is no financial gainand it is only for perIf you are sharing content personally, you cannot face either criminal or legal sanctions. If the opposite were to beconsidered, it would be necessary to penalize even those who hum the songs; in that case, all 85 million people would be subject to criminal sanctions," he stated.

News Source: İHA