| Contents |
Overview. Copyright basics ; Two types of copyrights ; Mechanical royalties ; Performance royalties ; Synchronization ; Other types of income ; Songwriters and publishers ; Digging deeper -- The value of music. This is a low-budget production ; It will be good exposure ; A foreign idea ; Step this way ; Subjective tense -- Types of publishing deals. Ownership vs. administration ; Work for hire ; Songwriting ; 360 deals ; Administration ; Copublishing ; The final solution ; Beware the jabberwock, my son ; Song plugging ; No deal at all ; I have it here someplace -- Mechanical licenses. Compulsory licenses ; Compulsory license requirements ; Mechanical licenses in the real world ; You're a publisher again ; Reduced rate licensing ; Harry who? ; Oh! Canada! ; Record clubs ; Those other foreigners ; Who gets the money? -- Performance income. How the system works ; Direct licenses ; Ok, so where does all the money go? ; Getting in on the action ; I still haven't been paid ; What's on TV? ; Do they monitor my gym? ; The enforcer ; My performing right society is better than yours -- Synchronizations. Film factors ; Half the world ; Out-of-context uses ; I ain't got no money that I can depend on ; There's never anything on TV ; Video licenses ; It was here a second ago ; That's BS! No, PBS ; Those foreigners did what? ; Least favored nations ; What does it all mean anyway? ; Coming back for more ; A few more do's and don'ts ; Confirmation letters -- Sundry uses. Advertising ; Video games ; Print ; Gently down the steam ; Ringtones ; Karaoke ; Foreign translations ; Samples ; That's not fair, or is it? ; New technologies -- Subpublishing. A good subpublisher ; Let's make a deal ; An experiment gone wrong ; The subpublisher dinner circuit -- Cowriting and copublishing. Back to reality ; Don't bogart that joint (work) ; Let's make more paper -- Controlled composition clauses. A controlled what? ; The meter is running ; Our special reducing formula ; Just in case that isn't enough ; Et tu, Brute? ; Wait, there's more! ; Seen it all before? Or have you? ; Can you make it all go away? -- More on copyright. Hey PA, what's this form? ; Wait, I changed my mind ; The corporation wrote your song ; I feel renewed ; Transfers and other forms ; Can you help me, SR? ; The advantages of being dead ; The advantages of being foreign -- Representation and further advice. You get what you pay for ; My lawyer is a sewer, er, suer ; A boy named Sue ; Let us count this day our daily beans ; Know what they owe ; Learn me more -- DIY. Protect the song ; Uncle Sam wants you and so do ASCAP and BMI ; Scumbag record companies ; Fourth base -- Appendix. Can you do the splits? |
| Abstract |
Publishing is one of the most complex and lucrative parts of the music business. The author covers everything from mechanical, performing and synch rights to sub-publishing, foreign rights, copyright basics, types of publishing deals, advice on representation and more. Get a view from the top, in plain English. This updated and revised edition has been prepared in light of the ever-changing landscape of music publishing, taking into account factors like illegal downloading and recent announcements from the Copyright Royalty Board. With an added "DIY" chapter, the author demonstrates why the playing field has changed for the traditional copyright adminstrators, and how musicians just starting out can protect their own work until they hit the big time. |
