JAKARTA - The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) assesses that the application of a blank license (blanket license) in the collection of music royalties is a source of problems in royalty management in Indonesia.The Secretary General of PHRI, Maulana Yusran, said that the blank license forces users, such as hotels that play background music, to pay royalties without the clarity of whose songs are actually played and who is the creator who is entitled to receive them."For example, we create our own songs, play them in our own place of business, after all, we also have to pay to the LMKN (National Collective Management Institute)," said Maulana when attending the DPR RI Baleg Meeting for the Copyright Bill some time ago.According to him, this condition raises a big question mark in terms of users of song creation and/or music.The system, according to PHRI, has also triggered a major commotion that has emerged to the public in recent years.According to Maulana, many business actors have stopped playing music because they are unable to pay royalty bills whose calculations are not clear. BACA JUGA: As a result, the home band musician whose life is 75 percent depends on the hotel, restaurant and cafe (Horeka) ecosystem is also threatened because users are reluctant to take risks.Furthermore, Maulana also expressed her views on Government Regulation (PP) Number 56 of 2021, which is said to be contrary to the Copyright Law itself."The legal basis should not be allowed, the PP should not exceed that of the law," he said. Well, that's what we understand.One of the crucial points underlined is Article 88 paragraphs 2(b) and 2(c) in the context of royalty collection by the Collective Management Institute (LMK).PHRI highlighted the practice in which LMK can collect royalties from creators who have not even become members. Furthermore, the royalties collected from the non-member creator can be stored, announced, and potentially belonging to the LMK."This is one of the problematic points," he said.PHRI also urged a total evaluation of regulations, especially tariff problems and polling patterns that were considered problematic, and immediately completed the Song and Music Data Center (PDLM) so that there would be no more chaos in the future.The solution offered is to adopt models that have been accepted by the public, such as Spotify or YouTube, where payments and distribution are clearly based on the song being played, not the fuzzy blank system. The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)