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The associations have asked the organizers to stop making the works available to the public.
“In response to the sensitive political context of the Great Defense of the Family of March 2021, we inform AGATA members and the public that we have not authorized the use of music at this event,” said AGATA.
According to the association, the organizers of the “Great March for the Defense of the Family” use the recordings of Vytautas Kernagis, Ieva Narkutė and other artists at their events.
“We publicly ask the organizer to stop the unlicensed public use of music that is not coordinated with the creators or their representatives. If we do not do this, we will protect the violated rights of the developers by legal means,” warns AGATA.
LATGA also warned that according to current laws, event organizers who wish to use the works must request it from the association no later than two weeks before the event.
“So far, the organizers of the March 2021 Great Family Defense have not done so,” the association said.
LATGA informs this Friday that it reminded the organizers of the obligation to sign a contract with it if the works of the authors represented by the association will be reproduced during the event.
We have also attached to the organizers a list of authors and other rights holders who do not allow the use of their works at the event. The LATGA association has no legal basis on its own initiative for not granting a public performance license. Authors who do not want their works to be represented in public during said event have the right to inform LATGA, which in turn will inform the organizers, ”the report indicates.
The associations reacted after being assisted by the Vytautas Kernagis Foundation.
“All the music released so far at the Great Family Defense upheaval events in March 2021 sounded illegal because the organizers had not concluded agreements with the LATGA and AGATA associations,” said one of the founders of the foundation, Eglė Kernagytė-Dambrauskė.
Therefore, we will await the reaction and action of the associations on this issue. Furthermore, the lexicon, values and aggressive and degrading attitude of the organizers of the march towards other people are in no way in line with the idea of freedom, respect and tolerance that the work of V. Kernagis carries. Therefore, we categorically declare that we do not agree that the songs of Vytautas Kernagis and his personality are in any way related to this event and we completely distance ourselves from it, ”said V. Kernagis’s daughter.
„V. Kernagis has become a symbol of freedom singing in Lithuania, so it is very important that her songs are used in that context. How and in what way the Great Defense of the Family March 2021 spreads its ideas is unacceptable to our family, so the father’s songs cannot be played at that event. Everything is simple and clear, ”said the teacher’s son, MP Vytautas Kernagis.
The Vytautas Kernagis Foundation requested that no licenses be granted to use teacher songs at March for the Defense of the Family events.
A Family Defense March will be held in Vilnius on Saturday, with participants seeking to protest against the Istanbul Convention and other initiatives that they say are directed against the traditional family.
Organizers say they oppose the initiatives of the ruling majority, which they consider contrary to the Constitution, the introduction of the concept of gender in educational institutions. According to them, the initiatives considered would be contrary to the constitutional principle of allowing parents to raise their children according to their beliefs.
The initiator and leader of the event is Raimondas Grinevičius, a former “organizer”, among the organizers is the comedian Artūras Orlauskas, member of the Algimantas Rusteika National Association, responsible for the website infa.lt Arvydas Daunys.
