Music rights have often been a misunderstood subject in the Gulf. When I first moved to the region 15 years ago, I often found myself battling dismissive attitudes towards the rights held by music creators, with the belief by some that copyright law didn’t apply here. The reality, however, has always been that the existing copyright laws were passed throughout the region in the early 2000s, when the UAE Federal Copyright law was written in 2002. Under this framework, the rights of all creators and producers are protected without the need for any new laws to be passed.
There has, however, been a legal conundrum making the act of music licensing difficult. Most broad-based users of music being
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