MP3 is one of the most favourite file to listen a song in Indonesia. Almost
everyone use file MP3 to play a song with MP3 player like winamp. In Indonesia
there’s no legal MP3 distribution and it makes a lot of illegal MP3 distributed to
people. Many merchant who sell pirated MP3 on the roadside and the problem is that
music is copyrighted. This means that the maker of a work must grant permission
before his work may be distributed on CD MP3. In the vast majority of the cases the
copyright holder has not granted such permission, because most artists make money
by selling CDs with their music. The music industry not surprisingly is complaining
loudly about all the lost sales they claim to suffer because copyright holder didn’t get
any royalty. The writing of this legal writing used empirical research and in this legal
writing, the author conducted a research to know how the copyright protection of
musical works in the form of MP3. Based on the result of author’s findings, it
founded that musical work on MP3 type protected and regulated by Act Number 19
of 2002. It protected either in form and substance. The highest level of violation
copyright music works that much happen on the distribution and sell of illegal MP3.
Thus, it has been appropriate that copyright holder of music works produce and sell
of legal MP3. Hopefully, legal MP3 will be more effective in depressing the level of
illegal MP3 violation in Indonesia.