MBU 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Harry Fox Agency, Performance Rights Organisation, Bmg Rights Management
13 Jan 2017
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Music rights management: mechanical licenses issued mostly through harry fox agency, the big four, universal music publishing, warner/chappell music, bmg rights management, sony/atv music publishing. Emi music publishing: a more stable income stream, continued performances on radio and tv, new recordings (covers, use in movies, tv, and games, copyrights last at least 70 years, music publishing revenues. Ascap the american society of composers authors and. Ascap and bmi are about the same size in terms of writers and collections, sesac is much smaller. All three get some actual counts of performances and estimate others: performance revenue sources: Other: 2: how the pros work: Publishers and writers affiliate with one pro (writers only one, publishers have separate sub-companies to each). Pros give non-exclusive licenses to radio, tv, clubs, etc. to perform that pro"s catalog (a blanket license). Pro splits the money 50/50 between writer and publisher, after costs (profits in sesac"s case): ascap.
