MUSB 2305 Chapter 7 Study Guide
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MUSB 2305 CHAPTER 7 STUDY GUIDE
“Sundry Uses”
THE PLAIN AND SIMPLE GUIDE TO MUSIC PUBLISHING
by Randall D. Wixen
- ______ The most important and common types of licensing and income interest for most music publishers are in the areas of mechanical, performance and advertising
- ______ Many writers and publishers eschew advertising licensing
- _____ Sting, among others, has given advertising credit for helping his career
- _____ The most typical advertising license request is for a world-wide one year campaign
- _____ Typical publishing fees for a one year national advertising campaign in the U.S. are in the $150,000 to $500,000 range
- _____ Parody lyrics can raise the fair market value of an advertising license by 25% or more
- _____ Printed sheet music, songbooks and album matching folios comprise the bulk of the written music sold in the U.S.
- ______ The royalty rates offered for printed music licenses vary widely
- ______ 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
- Why have some writers and publishers agreed to do advertising deals after they have refused other offers before? pp. 91-92
- Are video games evolving into a win/win for publishers and manufacturers? Discuss. p. 94
- Name the MFN royalty rates in 4 or more types of print music licenses. pp. 94-95
- Discuss typical MFN licensing terms for karaoke on at least 4 issues (clauses). p. 97
- List at least 4 terms and requirements to consider when licensing foreign translations. pp. 98-99
- Briefly discuss the process of negotiating a sampling license. pp. 99-100
- What four factors are considered under section 107 of the Copyright Act so as to constitute fair use? p. 100
- Outline 4 or more suggestions that Wixen has for publishers who are licensing deals in new technologies. pp. 101-102
BONUS RIDDLE (from my 13 year-old friend, Nafisa, in Vienna):
A fast Pony Express rider leaves with mail from St. Louis on Tuesday, rides 3 days and arrives back in St. Louis on Tuesday. How is this possible? J
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