| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Music Publishing -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction -- REALWORLD, MYTH-BUSTER, and! -- 1 A brief history of music publishing and copyright law -- A brief history of copyright -- The Berne Convention -- Music publishers and sheet music -- The nature of copyright -- Copyright law -- Writer share and publisher share -- Inherent rights of 8220;copyright8221; -- Obtaining and enforcing copyright -- Copyright registration -- Copyright notice -- Duration of copyright -- 2 Sources of income, royalties, and licenses -- Sources of income -- Performing rights: music played on radio, television, and in public establishments -- Synchronization rights: music embedded in film or television productions -- Mechanical rights: royalties generated from record sales and downloads -- Licenses, assignments, and transfers of rights -- Mechanical license fees and the Harry Fox Agency -- Controlled-composition clause -- 3 Performing rights -- The performing right -- Performing Rights Organizations -- Title Registrations: the roadmap to performance royalties -- Song performances, identification, and music surveys -- Cue sheets -- Income from radio play -- Income from television -- Performing rights and live performances -- Songwriters and the Performing Rights Organizations -- Choosing a Performing Rights Organization -- Accessing Performing Rights Organizations -- 4 Publishing companies -- Functions of music publishing companies -- Getting songs recorded -- Other publisher functions and interactions -- Holds -- Collaborations -- Who do publishers sign? -- The nature and role of demos -- Cross-collateralization of income -- Publishing administration -- Songsharks: caveat emptor -- 5 Publishing deals -- Publishing contracts -- Publishing contract deal points -- Evaluating a publisher -- 6 Independent songwriters -- Demo strategies for the singer-songwriter -- Home studios vs. commercial studios -- Keeping track of your business -- Getting songs recorded: pitching and shopping -- Building a singer-songwriter-performer career -- Live performance, promotion, and exposure -- Where you live -- 7 Music in film and television -- Film and television music -- 8220;Front-end8221; fees / 8220;back-end8221; fees -- Music supervisors -- Music casting -- Instrumental music -- Soundtrack albums -- Trailers -- Work-for-hire agreements -- 8 Music in advertising and Production Music Libraries -- Advertising music -- Licensing songs for commercials -- Production Music Libraries -- 9 Classical music, Broadway, print music, and educational music -- Classical music -- Commissions for composers -- Broadway and Grand Rights -- The nature of print music -- The market for educational music -- School band and choral music -- 10 Foreign publishing revenue, rights, and deals -- Foreign Sub-Publishing Deals -- Functions of sub-publishers -- Exploitation -- Administration -- Foreign collections -- Foreign mechanical royalties -- 11 New media, technology, and copyright -- Technology overview -- Recording technolog |
| Summary |
Music Publishing covers the basics of how a composition is copyrighted, published, and promoted. When we think of publishing, we often think of the printed, physical form-- sheet music-- that a composition may take. However, publishing in the music business goes far beyond the physical sheet--it includes live performance and mechanical (recording) rights, and income streams from licensing deals of various kinds. A single song can generated over 30 different royalty streams, and a writer must know how these royalties are calculated and who controls the flow of the money. Taking a practical appr |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music publishing -- United States
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Music -- Economic aspects.
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Music -- Economic aspects
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Music publishing
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weissman, Dick
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| ISBN |
9780203895689 |
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0203895681 |
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1281457507 |
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9781281457509 |
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