Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 9
25th November 2013
The copyright law is made to identify who made the song and who owns it
so no one else can claim it. They are designed to protect artists from
unauthorized copy or use. Without copyrighting any one could place an artists
song in their commercial or on the radio without any credit to the artist
himself. To copyright a song all musicians whether recording artists or songwriters
must copyright it at the Library of Congress in America. When you buy a song an
ITunes you are only buying the private rights, which allow you to listen on
your Ipod, car, etc. You are not in any way allowed to record it, or use it for
your video on the web. Albeit you can use the song if the composer is dead for
more than 50 years, which is when the copyright expires.
Music Production 9
25th November 2013
Copyright
The copyright law is made to identify who made the song and who owns it
so no one else can claim it. They are designed to protect artists from
unauthorized copy or use. Without copyrighting any one could place an artists
song in their commercial or on the radio without any credit to the artist
himself. To copyright a song all musicians whether recording artists or songwriters
must copyright it at the Library of Congress in America. When you buy a song an
ITunes you are only buying the private rights, which allow you to listen on
your Ipod, car, etc. You are not in any way allowed to record it, or use it for
your video on the web. Albeit you can use the song if the composer is dead for
more than 50 years, which is when the copyright expires.  |
| Louis Tomlinson (Recording Artist) |
If you were to use a copyrighted song in a video or on the radio, you
must get a license. Since radio’s play about 500-600 songs daily they go to the
two most major companies, which give out these music licenses called public
performance rights. The two major companies, who are BMI and ASCAP handle about
4,000,000 songs, respectively. A radio station must get what’s called a blanket
license to play any song they want for the whole year. When you cover a
song, compulsory licensing kicks in in which you have to pay a statutory
royalty rate, you have to tell the people who own the copyright, and have to
pay a monthly royalty statement. Although you are not allowed to make any
changes at all in the song or else it is considered “derivative work”. Another
way to get a license for a copyrighted song is either by going to a regional
agency that is specially made to get you a license and they are in charge of
copyrights. Also you can go to BMI or ASCAP’s website and state how you’re
going to use the song and they will tell you how to pay them.
Here is the website for BMI: http://www.bmi.com/licensing/
Website for ASCAP: http://www.ascap.com/licensing/
Examples of other recording artists, with songs copyrighted:
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| Praise Beyonce, mom, model, and a recording artist |
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| One Republic, a band (please praise new album) |
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