Midterm Cheat Sheet - Summary Copyright, Royalties, and Licensing PDF

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(COMPOSITIONS, SONGWRITERS, PUBLISHERS) (RECORDINGS, PERFORMERS, LABELS) Canadian Music Reproduction Rights Agency - Music licensing collective representing music rightsholders who range in size from large multinational music publishers to individual songwriters. Issue licenses to for the reproduction of songs on various media. Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada - Not-for-profit organization that represents the Canadian performing rights of millions of Canadian and international music creators and publishers. Re: Sound - A not-for-profit music licensing company dedicated to obtaining fair compensation for artists and record companies for their performance rights. Pays 50% to MROCK who pays performer, the other 50% go to CONNECT and pays the label. Connect - A music licensing website that administers licenses in Canada for the reproduction of sound recordings, and the reproduction and broadcast of music videos on behalf of the copyright owners (usually record companies). CPCC(Canadian Private Copying Collective) - A copying collective website, that advocates on behalf of recording artists, songwriters, publishers, and record labels for their rights as they pertain to private copying. Mechanical royalties paid on CMRRA (who pays) record label Performance rights paid on SOCAN (who pays) publisher Copyright term for a composition/recording: Canada - Creator of the works lifetime plus 50 years from the end of the calendar year that the creator died US - In other countries copyright duration varies, US and UK it is 70 years from the end of the calendar year that the creator died Bourne Convention - Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works. Is an international agreement governing copyright. Basic minimum. Canadian Copyright Act came into effect - 1924 first phase - 1988 (modern act) (moral rights, compulsory licenses) second phase - 1997 (rental rights, protection from bootleg, statutory damages regine) Orphaned Works - works that have been abandoned, can’t find copyright. Private copying levy? - A royalty that exists to provide compensation to songwriters, composers, music publishers, recording artists, musicians record companies for private copies made of their music. Neighbouring Rights - Used to describe the rights of performers and master recording owners. Refer to the right to publicly perform, or broadcast a sound recording. SOCAN collects them and distributes them. Re:Sound is in charge of them. CSI - a joint venture of the CMRRA and SODRAC. Licenses the reproduction rights in both these organizations to various music users (radio stations, background music, online music) 3 Types of Publishing Agreements - publishing agreement (50/50) - not common today. Has sole admin rights, splits 50/50 - co pub agreement the norm today. 75/25 in favour of artist (50% writer, 25% publisher, 25% writer self pub) - publishing admin deal - common type of deal in Canada. Publisher is hired as a third party to admin a catalogue, helps ensure royalties are being distributed correctly around the world, administrator does not acquire ownership but administers for a fee (1025%). Artists retains full ownership but gives up % of publishing revenue. Fair Dealing - Exception in the Canadian Copyright Act - allows material to be used for purposes of research, private study, criticism, review or news reporting, education, and satire or parody Public Domain - works belong to the public and there is no restriction on their use - Musical work enters the 50 years after the year of the death of composer - A recording 70 years after the recording was first fixed Revenue streams of a song - Sheet music, folio, matching folio, mixed folio Special products (singing fish, toys, build a bear, cards) film/games. Types of electronic transmission: Permanent download (yours forever) Non-Interactive and Semi-Interactive. Non is fully controlled by provider. Semi allows user-influenced or customized playlists. What are the American Performance Rights Societies BMI, ASCAP, SESAC What is the American Mechanical Rights Society? HARRY FOX Why do you need to know? Some of your stuff may end up going there. You are going to be performing in every region around the world. Songs will be released What are some royalties that Canada collects that the U.S. does not? Neighboring rights. Moral rights. Blank levy scheme What is the copyright term in Canada? - life of author plus 50 years What is the copyright term in the U.S.? - life of author plus 70 years. What are compulsory compositions? - a clause where a musical work that has been previously recorded and can be obtained without having to obtain the copyright holder’s permission. Who pays SOCAN? - anyone facilitates the public performance of a copyright song Who does SOCAN pay? - publisher and writer Who pays CMRRA? - record label Who does CMRRA pay? - publisher. What is the mechanical royalty rate $0.083 for the first 5 minutes of a song. $0.0166 for each additional minute What is a controlled composition? A song written by performing artist. What is the mechanical royalty rate for a controlled composition? $0.0622...