Radio as a Disseminator of Copyrighted Literary and Artistic Works a Descriptive Study of Radio Omdurman, Sudan

Abstract

Radio is one of the important mass media that helps in the dissemination of
literary and artistic works. It played an important role in the history of music in
Sudan by giving the singers and composers the chance to record and disseminate
their works through the Radio which was the only available medium.
Songwriters, composers, singers, performers, actors and all these copyright and
related rights categories need the Radio to disseminate their works. If these
works didn't reach the audience, it will negatively affect the dissemination of
works. Beside that, Radio has no active mechanism in organising the usage of
works the matter that involved the Radio in many problems with the right's
holders, although the Radio has applied some measures to avoid that.