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In concerts, there are no rules yet on recording live performances for the public to observe and follow.

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Leah C. Salterio

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1788663650782IMG_8771.jpeg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960">(From left) Top Suzara, Nina and Thor Dulay</div>In films, the Movie Television Review and Classification Bord (MTRCB) is a governing body regulating the classification and exhibition, with strict rules and mandate to the public.In concerts, however, there are no rules yet for the public to observe and follow. Hence, audiences are free to upload not just snippets of the performance, but unfortunately, sometimes even the entire show in their YouTube channels or social media platforms .Singer-musician Ice Seguerra recently posted and called the attention of a vlogger and complained about uploading several videos of the recent Sessionistas concert at the Newport Performing Arts Theater (NPAT).<div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/music/2026/8/25/ice-seguerra-calls-for-respect-for-artists-work-please-don-t-upload-the-concert-itself-1158">Ice Seguerra calls for respect for artists&rsquo; work: &lsquo;Please don&rsquo;t upload the concert itself&rsquo; </a></div>Artists such as Nina, Top Suzara and Thor Dulay recently weighed in their respective thoughts about recording concerts and monetizing the videos taken during live concerts. The artists want to have rules about uploading concert videos.Suzara and Dulay are guesting in &ldquo;Nina XX: The Repeat&rdquo; on September 24 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater. The concert marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the successful &ldquo;Nina Live&rdquo; album.&ldquo;If you want to post snippets of the concert, that&rsquo;s fine,&rdquo; Suzara told ABS-CBN News. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re actually grateful as artists. But to post the whole show takes away the whole experience if you&rsquo;re going to monetize it. I don&#39;t think that&#39;s going to be possible. So you&#39;re going to get copyright for some of the songs.&nbsp;&ldquo;I think even if you paid the ticket for show, it doesn&#39;t entitle you to record it and load it as yours. It&#39;s nice of you to share the experience, share the night together. What we want to do is perform for you. But we also want you to be part of the evening. It&#39;s hard to react to somebody who&#39;s just documenting the entirety of the concert with no interaction.Dulay urges vloggers to show respect to the artists and stop posting videos of the show. &ldquo;The audience spent to watch the concert,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If they post about the entire performance, ibang usapan na &lsquo;yun. Naghirap ang artists and production for the show. The audience should respect that.&rdquo;Nina admitted she had her fair share of those people who readily record and upload videos of her concerts. &ldquo;There are people who saved their hard-earned money just to watch the show,&rdquo; said Nina. &ldquo;Snippets are fine because it would also promote our show. They are proud that they watched the show. Pero kawawa naman &lsquo;yung nagbayad.&ldquo;I cannot speak for all those people. Sometimes, you just leave them to the one handling your social media. There&rsquo;s nothing like watching the concert physically. You can see the artists in person. You can even smell us and see us splashing in front of you.&rdquo;To experience the entire show, Nina prefers that the audience does not record the concert, keep their phones while watching and simply enjoy the performance.&nbsp;&ldquo;&rsquo;No phones during the performance&rsquo; can perhaps be made as a rule in every concert,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;If the producer wants to upload the show after the concert, then the audience can watch it in the correct account where the show can be accessed.&ldquo;Huwag pangunahan ng audience. So they can experience the totality of the show. If you want to have evidence that you watched the show, you can take pictures maybe even with the artists after the concert.&rdquo;Suzara added, &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s a matter of setting rules and making the audience observe those rules. That has to be said because no one is talking about it. Like what Thor said, the audience should not be disrespectful. It&rsquo;s a lot better to experience the concert live. Sometimes, there are scenes where you don&rsquo;t have to actually document them.&ldquo;Once you bought the ticket does not give you the right to record the show and upload the videos on your social media account and monetize it. There should be a rule that the audience needs to follow.&rdquo;Concert director Calvin Murphy Neria was more concerned about the producer since &ldquo;Nina XX,&rdquo; first staged last May, will have a repeat on September 24.&ldquo;When the audience can watch the concert online, they might not come and watch it live anymore,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We can brag that we really have a good concert repeat. Nina is loved by her fans; that&rsquo;s why the first concert was sold out. But who will police the audience in uploading videos?&ldquo;That post of Ice Seguerra was a wake-up call to us on the production side, sa concert scene. There must be a regulation when it comes to recording the concert. If the audience watching the movies or theater productions like &lsquo;Les Miz&rsquo; or &lsquo;West Side Story&rsquo; can observe the no-recording policy, why can&rsquo;t they do it in the concert?&ldquo;There are people who don&rsquo;t realize that productions spend a lot of money investing in shows to mount for entertainment to flourish so we will not be compared to foreign shows. We want to be at par to foreign shows even the K-pop concerts. I hope what Ice Segeuerra did will eventually educate the viewing audience and concert-goers. It&rsquo;s about time.&rdquo;Neria recently took on the challenge of directing Nina anew for &ldquo;XX: The Repeat.&rdquo; Also joining as special guest is Christian Bautista.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a people pleaser,&rdquo; Neria said. &ldquo;As a director, I listen to feedback and I read comments online. We need to do more in the show that the audience will want. In the repeat, we will do other &lsquo;Nina Live&rsquo; songs that we missed out and the fans will look forward to. I will study the repertoire. This will be a different show. Eighty percent of the songs will be different.&ldquo;With a new set of guests, there will be different production numbers with Christian, Top and Thor,&rdquo; Neria disclosed. &ldquo;In the first &lsquo;Nina XX,&rsquo; the minute they announced the show, half of the tickets were sold in just one week. They had to cancel the scheduled second press conference when the tickets were sold out a month before the concert.&rdquo;Mounting &ldquo;XX: The Repeat&rdquo; are Echo Jham Entertainment Productions (Mhae Arenas) in collaboration with Synth X (Roland Lee). There are plans to do the concert abroad and even in the provinces in the coming months.An R&amp;B pillar, Nina revisited the commercial success of the &ldquo;Nina Live&rdquo; album that redefined the OPM landscape, elevating live cover performances into a cultural phenomenon and embedding itself into the everyday soundtrack of Filipino life, from radio airwaves to karaoke sessions nationwide.

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Nina, Top Suzara, Thor Dulay want rules on concert video-taking

Leah C. Salterio

Published September 06, 2026 11:24 AM PHT

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