The Chaos Of Music Copyright Is Getting More Noisy, Anji Wants All United Musicians To Improve The System

Anji (Ivan Two Men/VOI)

JAKARTA - In the midst of the increasing copyright of music, Anji chose to refrain. Instead, he looks busy releasing new works. For this year, the former vocalist of Drive has issued five singles, coupled with a new collaboration single which will be released next September.

Anji chose not to talk too much about copyright because he felt the problem was getting more complicated. He is no longer too interested when many people participate, especially since the musicians form their respective camps.

"Actually, what happened today was too noisy. I was actually one of the ones who contributed to this noise, at the beginning, I've been talking about this since 2015," Anji told the media crew in Kemang, South Jakarta on Wednesday, June 25.

"But lately, when a lot of people make a sound, I even feel like it's already done. Because it's been too noisy, too noisy, and too many camps like that," he continued.

In addition, Anji saw that the discussion on copyright, especially related to royalties, was too far from its main goal, namely mutual understanding between musicians.

"Even though the problem is actually easy. (It only needs) empathy, ethics, and understanding. That's the problem," he said. If for example we talk from the side of the law, from the side of the rules, we don't find it, because it's a gray rule.

The 46-year-old songwriters actually hope that musicians will unite for the sake of mutual welfare. He wants those who are involved in sitting together and criticizing the system to be better for the Indonesian music ecosystem.

"Actually, these two camps should unite. Now, this one, the one who makes the system, who oversees the system, who gets the money, this is actually what we need to attack too," he said.