Created songs which private radios in Yogyakarta broadcast is an activity of
copyrights announcement which has been protected by the copyright law. The
protection for song copyrights which private radios broadcast is related to
neighboring rights. The purpose this research was to know if those songs which
the private radios broadcasted were automatically neighboring right subject. This
research was the empirical law which involved sources. They were from the
regional office of Departement of Law Human Rights of special region of
Yogyakarta and PRSSNI for Yogyakarta region. Besides them, there were also 3
respodents from Retjo Buntung FM, Prambors FM, and UTY FM. This research
applied approach qualitative, inductive and interview. The data got from the
interview with the sources and respondents was to know the protection of
copyright for songs broadcasted by the private radios above in Yogyakarta. The
result showed that every broadcasted song would automatically be neighboring
rights and there were some kinds of law protection. They were licence and royalty
payment to protect the economical right of a song and it was based on UU No.19,
2002 and UU No.32, 2002.