INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
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Chapter 5: ​Songwriting and Copyright

Songwriting
  • Songwriter and Music Publisher Agreements
  • Books
  • What makes a song popular - David Tough article
  • Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule
Copyright
  • Todd and Jeff Brabec: How Songwriters, Composers, and Music Publishers Make Money
  • Copyright Office - forms for registering copyright
  • First-Use Mechanical Licenses. The songwriter and their publisher get to decide who records and release their song.
  • Fair Use
  • Creative Commons
  • Copyright Law of the United States
  • How long does copyright last?
  • Other frequently asked questions
Sampling Cases
  • Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records, Inc. (1991). Biz Markie was accused of appropriating part of Gilbert O'Sullivan's song.
  • Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films (2005). N.W.A.
DIY​
For Further Study
  • Watch the documentary Copyright Criminals.
  • Watch the documentary RIP: A Remix Manifesto.
  • Watch Secondhand Sureshot documentary about guys sampling records.
  • Visit www.whosampled.com, study a track, and see if you can identify the samples in the song.
  • Read Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola. This is the companion book for the documentary Copyright Criminals.
  • Read Cory Doctorrow's Content. The author chose to give it a Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses.
  • White-Smith Music Publishing v. Apollo Company, 209 U.S. 1 (1908). Ruling by the Supreme Court that publishers of piano rolls did not have to pay royalties to composers.
  • Copyright Act of 1909, law enacted by Congress introducing a new mechanical license for piano rolls, and setting the length of time for a copyright to 28 years from the date of publication.
  • Copyright Act of 1976
  • Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. Non-commercial copying by consumers of recordings is not copyright infringement
  • Telecommunications Act of 1996 - the first major overhaul of telecommuniations law in over 60 years, adding the Internet in broadcasting and spectrum allotment. Its provision for media cross-ownership caused a convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication markets.
  • Digital Millenium Copyright Act (1998). Provides a "safe harbor" for Internet Service Providers and sites like YouTube to protect them from claims of copyright violation.

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  • Teachers Guide
    • Teachers Guide 2018
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  • Interviews
  • Midwest Edition
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  • Southwest Edition