MUSIC-UA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Derivative Work, Sound Recording And Reproduction, Interpolation
27 Sep 2016
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Fair pay, fair play act introduced to house of reps in 2015. Which would require terrestrial-radio companies to begin paying royalties to audio-recording-rights holders, as well as to songwriters, alongside some reforms to the digital-music industry . Work is copyrighted the moment it is created or fixed in a tangible form either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Public records of ownership/creation of work, chain of title, infringement claims/damages. Owner: the songwriter(s) is the owner until and unless they assign ownership of a work to another party (i. e. publisher, record label, etc. ) Exceptions: commissioned works and works for hire. Five exclusive rights granted musical works under copyright law. Right to reproduce or allow others to reproduce your work in any form. Right to prepare or license others to prepare derivative works based on or incorporating the original work. Right to distribute copies of the work by sale or transfer of ownership.
