Unit 2: Professional Practise in the Music Industry - COPYRIGHT

Which group of musicians do publishers work with?

• Producers

• Songwriters

• Sheet music printers

• Artists/performers

Match the terms with their meaning

• Distribution

• The unauthorised duplication of recorded music with the intent to defraud the copyright holder.

• Piracy

• Reasons you can use music without needing a license from the copyright holder.

• Licensing

• The selling of the rights to use your music for a period of time.

• Permitted Acts

• Getting the music from the record company or artist to the point of sale.

Monies collected on behalf of copyright owners when someone uses their property are called ...

The copyright agency that works on behalf of artists and performers is called

• PRS

• PPL

• MCPS

• BMG

The recorded performance of an artist is known as what?

What enables a work to be "copyrightable"?

• Creative and sufficiently imaginative.

• Original and longer than 8 bars.

• Original and of sufficient creativity to constitute a work.

• Of sufficient length to be a full work.

What is meant by Primary Infringement?

• You're the one doing the infringement.

• You have infringed the copyright of a major record label.

• You have infringed the copyright of the composer.

What is meant by "Secondary Infringement"?

• You infringed the copyright of the master.

• You broke copyright law for a second time.

• You helped a person who was doing the actual infringing.