Music Copyright Laws
Music Contracts, Music Deals, Copyright Law, Music Downlads
How to legally sell downloads of cover songs.
Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License
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“In the future, records will be made from records” ~
Every time a new technology comes along that affects the music industry it changes the industry. Piper Jaffray found 72% of teens own an MP3 player, and 79% of those are iPods. (2006)
Word to the Wise: Strength is not the law. The contract might SAY one thing, but getting it enforced?
How many acts have never gotten the second half of their publishing guarantee after their record stiffed? How many acts have been cheated out of their royalties? You might have the RIGHT, but do you have the POWER! "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
IANAL. (I am not a lawyer.) TINLA. (This is not legal advice.) ~ ECP
The unfortunate truth is that anything can be copyrighted, at least for a time. Unlike the United States Patent Office, there is no one in the Copyright Office to verify the originality of the work to be copyrighted. However, I know of at least one federal case in which the court ruled that if the antiquity of a song can be proven, the copyright fails.
COPYRIGHT RECOMMENDED REFERENCE RESOURCES
- Music Performing Rights Societies,
- Music Industry Associations
- Who to Sign with
- Music Mechanical Rights Societies and Collection Agencies
- Music Rights Clearance Organizations
- Webcasting / Radio Streaming License
- Licences
- Royalties
- Open Audio License
- Advice about securing permission to avoid copywrite violations. Who do we contact...pay...
- Is it in the Public Domain? How to find out.
- Synchronization Rights
Music | music law, distribution contracts, production deals
ABOUT MUSIC DEALS
- How should a musician deal with the label?
- Meet a real Manager and understand what they do.
- Sell by the byte
- Plugola / Payola it still goes on and Why It Matters.
- Cost to launch
- A very clear concise explanation from Martin Tobias former Loudeye CEO regarding the technophoic Music Labels (industry) refusal to get with digital music licensing. Allofmymp3 sells the tracks by the megabyte ($.02 per mb) about $.12 per song.
- What's The Deal With Production Deals? By Bob Donnelly
- SoundExchange
- Music Law, Music Contract, Music Production Deals
MUSIC | copyright issues, how to legally sell downloads of cover songs
MUSIC CONTRACT LAW
- Orientation: How to make it in the music business
- Future of digital music
- Marketing
- Production Deals, Contract Law, GRAY TUESDAY, DJ Dangermouse
- The MP3 Model Statement of Roger McGuinn The Byrds on “ The Future of Digital Music: Is There an Upside to Downloading?”
- ** THE CREATIVE COMMONS
- FYI INDIES - Robinson-Patman Act
- Different Kinds of Licensing Rights
- AFM & AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund - Does anyone owe you money?
- Works For Hire
- How to Legally Sell Downloads of Cover Songs
- Statutory Royalty Rates
- WHO MAKES MONEY ON TAXED MEDIA?
- WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION GENEVA -
- CopyRight Issues: Use of early recordings for documentary video
- Radio to web
MUSIC | music law, why file sharing is not theft, false claims of the RIAA, P2P
Every time technology changes so does the music business. Jasper and Marian Sanfilippo's Victorian Palace, is a 44,000-square-foot mansion and private museum in Barrington Hills, Illinois. The world's largest collection of restored automatic musical instruments is on display -- phonographs, music boxes, coin-operated pianos, orchestrions, dance organs, calliopes, and more. Two of the highlights of the Victorian Palace are the gargantuan 80-rank, 8000-pipe theater organ, with chambers occupying four stories, and the Eden Palais, an exquisite European salon carousel from 1890. The player piano comes along and mechanical licenses are the new model. Radio was still a utilitarian message service during the War, but on November 2, 1920, Pittsburgh station KDKA broadcast the Harding-Cox election returns, and soon Westinghouse researcher Frank Conroad was reading newspapers and playing records over and over again from this primitive studio. New York station WEAF began selling time, and radio was on its way to big business. The record industry was directly challenged. "Almost overnight, radio sneaked into the picture and the novelty of tuning in music and static from a distance, combined with the convenience of no cranks to wind and no records to buy and change, began sending the sale of platters downward." Edison's progeny was in trouble in 1923.
There is a difference between Art and Commerce.
How to make a Sexy Rock Star.
RESOURCES
K-12 PRIMER - WHAT IS LEGAL IN THE SCHOOL CLASSROOM
THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF MUSIC COPYRIGHT LAWS
"Are there any copyright restrictions for using music in classrooms? For example, if I wanted to use Billy Joel's song, "A Matter of Trust," could I? What if I just wanted to play the song or his CD, in general, before or after a class? Are there restrictions regarding what you can and cannot use in a class setting? What about before or after the class?"
- FREE MUSIC DOWNLOADS WHY FILE SHARING IS NOT THEFT
- COPYRIGHT <> COPYLEFT
- Courtney Love gave an excellent unedited speech
- Debunking of RIAA's claim that their revenue decline is due to piracy.
- John and Alan Lomax, who also devoted themselves to collecting and preserving traditional folk music, took the controversial step of copyrighting in their own names the songs they collected, as if they had written the songs themselves.
