Music Industry News
International Income for Music Makers
Monday, 28, June 2010
There may be a world of money waiting for songwriters, publishers and performers, but collecting the revenue internationally can be perplexing. It is so complicated, in fact, that the California Copyright Conference (CCC) dedicated one of their monthly programs to the topic.The CCC panel called “Music Rights: A Global Perspective” touched on some of the important issues facing songwriters and music publishers. As a result, many people I contacted wanted to delve deeper into what might be called the international musical monetary fund. Let’s take a look at a few of the issues.
This term has a specific meaning in the music industry, although the basic concept refers to rights held by one person simply because of rights held by another. In music, for example, the owner of a song is the copyright holder, but the performer enjoys rights, too. The performer’s rights are somewhat in conjunction with the copyright owner, hence the term “neighboring.”For many in the United States, this concept seems new, but neighboring rights were enacted after 1996 and then amended to the Copyright Act.