Copyrights
- Copyrights identify who owns the song and who recieves the money
- Songwriters who write the songs = automatically copyrighted
- Registration should be done before you release the song to the public
- Copyright owners have the right to reproduce the copyrighted song, create something based on the source, distribute it publicaly, perform or display it publicly
- If you have recorded the song as the artist you have the sound recording copyright and can play or perform the record vua digital audio.
Copyright licenses:
- By giving a copyright license you're giving the rights of your song to someone else
- Once the song is distributed compulsory licensing kicks in which means anyone who wants to cover the song can without your permission - however by law they have to pay a statutory royalty rate to you and pay monthly roylaty statements - and have to notify you whent they release it
- they cant make changes to the song in the form of words or the melody without the copyright owners approval - a changed song is considered derivative work
- compulsory licensing is rare as record companies dont want to provide monthly royalty statements and so go direct to the owner to negotiate
Shared Copyrights:
- If the song has been written by two people they own 50% each of the total song i.e. song, music, lyrics
- this means one individual cant give the right to the song to someone if the the partner doesnt agree
- You must half any money made on the song
- shared copyrights can happen when you or the publisher sign over a portion of the copyright to another publisher for a sampled composition (a song that uses a portion of another song)
Transfer of Copyrights:
- Most agreements sate that the songwriter must give the copyright of the song to the publisher
- this transfers the ownershiop of the song to the publisher in exchange for the royalties paid to the songwriter
- Usually the publishers own the copyrights and sound recordings are held by record companies
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