SPEAKER MEETS SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUPS REPS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Speaker of parliament Z.Enkhbold Friday received Ms Arina Dmitrieva, a managing director at the Sony Music Entertainment for a regional affairs, and Mr Sergei Yelfimov, first deputy director of the Universal Music Group for the Mongolian affairs. The visitors thanked the Speaker for receiving them and shared views with him on Mongolia's legal environment for rights of intellectual properties and copyrights. Mr Enkhbold said that, in recent years Mongolian music groups have been playing national music and singing songs in modern styles, and that they have a great opportunity to penetrate into the world’s market. "In a sphere of cinema a copyright infringement is not spread widely here, but it is difficult to control this kind of problem in music industry," he noted. Considered as the second largest company in the world’s music industry, the Sony Music Entertainment is an associated company of Japan’s Sony Corporation. The Sony Music Entertainment and the Universal Music Group keep and protect copyrights of world’s hundreds of singers and groups. Recently, these companies have officially started to deliver their intellectual capitals in Mongolia together with the "Khuur Music Group" LLC. Present at the meeting was Ts.Buyantogtokh, an advisor to the Speaker on social policy.