51% of Local Music: Cultural Imperative and Legal Norm for the Development of the Music Industry in the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

The music industry in the Republic of Moldova is proxy to the global music industry, with similar problems and perspectives. The effi cient functioning of the local music industries of the European states is becoming current and increasingly evident in the theoretical and practical approaches of the researchers, musicians, as well as of the economic entities in the fi eld. In this sense, the local music industries have traveled, in the last 30 years, through similar and oscillating routes, with many challenges and few opportunities on the local dimension. Thus, the music industry of the Republic of Moldova yields, from a structural, functional and tendentious point of view, to foreign dimensions: Western and Eastern European. In these circumstances, there is a need to rehabilitate the production, distribution and consumption of the music industry of the Republic of Moldova by valorizing and capitalizing on local music production. The pandemic, forced digitalization and the external macroeconomic context, as well as the politico-military one, require updates and connections to contemporaneity. Therefore, musical activity within the borders regulated by a State must measure and appreciate its own potential, in order to apply appropriate legal rules. The governmental and parliamentary involvement, in this respect, consists in updating the aspects aimed at: the local music production (Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 139/2010); the minimum tariff s of the author remuneration (Government Decision of the Republic of Moldova, No. 641/2001) and 51% - the minimum valorization quota (Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 174/2018).