Opening of the meeting
Acting Chairperson Mr. Yoon Myung-sun opened the 4th APMA General Assembly held online on May 27th, 2021.
Mr. Lorenzo Ferrero, Honorary President of CIAM, congratulated APMA for its great achievement in the past years and for developing into a mature alliance. He also expressed his gratitude to the former Chairman, Mr. Shunichi Tokura, for his splendid leadership, as well as to Mr. Brendan Gallagher for his great work since the beginning of APMA’s foundation.
Report of activities up to May 2021
Mr. Satoshi Watanabe outlined the organization of APMA and reported the activities up to May 2021.
Mr. Benjamin Ng gave a brief introduction of the Copyright Buyout Study Phase I and the brochure which was made based on the results of the phase I study. He mentioned that the English version of the brochure was launched at the buyout symposium on March 25th, 2021, in order to help more local music creators to understand the situation and to promote APMA’s buyout study campaign.
Election of the Executive Committee members for the term 2021-2023
The previous term of office of the Executive Committee members was November 2017 – May 2021 (extended due to difficulties in holding a physical General Assembly in November 2020). The following ten Executive Committee members for the term May 2021 – November 2023 were elected:
- Yoon Myung-sun, composer, former Chairman of KOMCA, Korea
- Irfan Aulia, songwriter, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of WAMI and Commissioner of LMKN, Indonesia
- Rico Rene Blanco, songwriter, former President of the Board of FILSCAP, Philippines
- Thanit Chernpipat, composer and Honorary Advisor of MCT, Thailand
- Hao Weiya, composer, professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, China
- Toshiyuki Watanabe, composer, board member of JASRAC, Japan
- Amanda Brown, composer, board member of APRA, Australia
- Ung Kuoc Iang, Yan, composer, CEO of MACA, Macau
- Chen Yu Zhen 陳玉貞 (Wawa), songwriter, Chair of MCU, Taiwan
- Aashish Rego, composer, Honorary General Secretary of MCAI (Music Creators Association of India)
As agreed in the previous Executive Committee meeting, Mr. Yoon Myung-sun will continue to assume the role of the Acting Chairperson until November 2021. The newly elected Executive Committee members will appoint a new Chairperson as well as Vice Chairpersons at that time.