MUSB 2305 Chapter 7 Study Guide

Study Guide for Chapter 7 of "The Plain and Simple Guide To Music Publishing by Randall D. Wixen

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MUSB 2305 CHAPTER 7 STUDY GUIDE

“Sundry Uses”

THE PLAIN AND SIMPLE GUIDE TO MUSIC PUBLISHING

by Randall D. Wixen

 

  1. ______ The most important and common types of licensing and income interest for most music publishers are in the areas of mechanical, performance and advertising
  2. ______ Many writers and publishers eschew advertising licensing
  3. _____   Sting, among others, has given advertising credit for helping his career
  4. _____    The most typical advertising license request is for a world-wide one year campaign
  5. _____    Typical publishing fees for a one year national advertising campaign in the U.S. are in the $150,000 to $500,000 range
  6. _____    Parody lyrics can raise the fair market value of an advertising license by 25% or more
  7. _____    Printed sheet music, songbooks and album matching folios comprise the bulk of the written music sold in the U.S.
  8. ______  The royalty rates offered for printed music licenses vary widely
  9. ______  Some publishers are demanding 75% or more of the net revenue of electronic distributions

10.  ______ DiMA is the trade group representing digital broadcasters

11.  ______ RIAA is the trade group representing publishers

12.  ______ In September, 2008, DiMA and RIAA agreed in principal to a royalty rate of 10.5% of the streaming broadcasters revenues

13.  ______  A huge percentage of the ringtones sold are not authorized by the artist, publisher, or master owner

14. _____    As of October 3, 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board set a statutory rate for master-tone ringtones of 2.4 cents per unit

15. _____ Publishers are effectively cracking down on illegal marketing of ringtones and karaoke.

16. _____  Wixen encourages doing license deals for foreign translations of popular songs

17. __ ___  Sampling creates derivative works

18. ______  You only need to deal with record companies for sampling licenses

19. ______  With most sampling licenses the sampler owns the new copyright

20. _____    When meeting the guidelines of fair use, no license or permission is required

21. _______ Fair use is easy to determine by claimants and publishers

 

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BRIEF OUTLINE/ESSAY

  1. Why have some writers and publishers agreed to do advertising deals after they have refused other offers before? pp. 91-92
  2. Are video games evolving into a win/win for publishers and manufacturers? Discuss. p. 94
  3. Name the MFN royalty rates in 4 or more types of print music licenses. pp. 94-95
  4. Discuss typical MFN licensing terms for karaoke on at least 4 issues (clauses). p. 97
  5. List at least 4 terms and requirements to consider when licensing foreign translations. pp. 98-99
  6. Briefly discuss the process of negotiating a sampling license. pp. 99-100
  7. What four factors are considered under section 107 of the Copyright Act so as to constitute fair use? p. 100
  8. Outline 4 or more suggestions that Wixen has for publishers who are licensing deals in new technologies. pp. 101-102

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