Purpose Of Copyright Law

Is important for anyone who has created any intellectual property to protect it. In the music industry, in order for someone to protect their work, they must obtain a copyright. Music has been around before anyone could obtain a copyright and when the invention of the computer came along it made it easier for someone to steal another artist's intellectual property with the help of the internet. This paper will cover what events have taken a big role in copyright protection for artist, the consequences if someone was to break the rules of a copyright which is called copyright infringement, and how will a copyright hold in the future. Were copyrights enacted without the thought of life changing technology, and how can some music companies

Now : Songs are created by synthesizers. Nobody can realistically take credit for their own songs because most songs are re-mixes or a collage of dubs from other people's  music.

Michael R. Cohen, 25B WEST 'S LEGAL FORMS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY § 23:22 (2014) (“Since it would be virtually impossible for publishers or songwriters to monitor and control the large numbers of users of their songs, the enforcement and control of such performance rights usually falls to one of three performing rights organizations ....”).

To answer this, Copyright Law must be understood. Copyright Laws protect intellectual property, and ownership rights. Artists can control their content by selling, leasing it or giving it away. Artists can grant permission for their work and have the freedom to charge. It encourages creativity, and protects the creativity by keeping it exclusive to the creator which allows profit. Mass media embodies the Copyright content,

Many musicians and artist get plagiarized. Sometimes the case goes threw in court and they have to take down music, others they get money for it, and sometimes they just have to credit them. If the case is extremely ridiculous they just kick the case out and it doesn’t go anywhere, but that's not what happened in the Chuck Berry vs The Beach Boys case.

In addition, the public got the chance to see new works of their favorite band. This way, the advertisement company started much earlier the album was produced. By the time it was recorded people already recognized songs and compositions from it. “Normally a band will make a record and then play in clubs and concerts to support it. But I decided to do the opposite” (Hancock).

For all of music’s history, the industry has favored the interests of songwriters over those of the performers. It appears that the industry believes that songwriters, both composers and lyricists, have full exclusive rights to whatever they compose, while performers have none to the music they perform. In Rock: Music, Culture, and Business, Schloss, Starr, and Waterman hold this value to be true in all of music’s history as well as currently, today. In terms of music business, this still remains an uneasy question to answer; to say whether, performers and composers both have rights, I have to agree. Schloss, Starr, and Waterman would be correct in that fact because performers like composers place their own styles and twists on the music. Therefore,

Over the past fifty years, the British Music Publishing industry has undergone dramatic changes. It has evolved as an entity with innovations in technology, changes and creations of laws and new mediums to promote and exploit songs to a wider audience. Therefore, the way in which the music publishing industry operates and exploits its assets has completely transformed, and continues to do so at a rapid pace. This paper will attempt to explore the ways in which publishers exploit song copyrights and the way in which this has changed over the past 60 years. It is important to define what is meant by copyright and its role within the industry. The Performing Right Society website states: “Copyright

Copyrighted works fall into two categories in the music world. The first is recorded performance, one first has to get permission from the recorded label to use a song. Next, the composition underlying a specific performance has to come straight from the artist. For “pass the mic,” the B. Boys got permission from the record label but not the artist, Newton therefore sued but lost. “The reason serves as a useful introduction to how to think about intellectual property”

Some artists also have the rights of attribution and integrity, meaning they can claim authorship and prevent the use of their name for works that are not theirs. There are different time constraints for a work to be copyright-protected in the United States according to the Artists Rights Society. They also explained that any changes in copyright terms have occurred over the years, but now there is a total of 95 years of copyright protection of works published before January 1, 1978, and a term of the lifetime of the artist plus 70 years for works published after January 1, 1978. The term of copyright protection is different from country to country and depends on what the individual nations decide to do. On the “Copyright Basics” page of Artists Rights Society, they state that in 1994, the European Union, as a whole, established a term of the lifetime of the artist plus 70 years. Understanding the background information about copyright in the United States is helpful when discussing the specific issues right for artists.

The Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) seeks to protect individuals who have created original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. Sections 14(1) and 36 provide that copyright is infringed when a person reproduces a substantial part of another’s work without the license of the owner of the copyright. In 2010 the Federal Court of Australia considered whether the flute riff in ‘Down Under’ a song by popular Australian group Men at Work was a substantial reproduction of the iconic children’s song ‘Kookaburra’ composed by Marion Sinclair. This case attracted significant media coverage and public interest.

Music Copyright is a very important aspect of the music industry. The Copyright law was established to preserve the creativity and rights of authors, composers, performers of expression. Copyright is the law that protects the property rights of the creator of an original work in a fixed tangible medium. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/copyright) A fixed tangible medium is something substantial like copying lyrics on paper or putting a song on tape or CD. Copyright can be seen every where in the music industry. Many music artist of our culture today have been involved in copyright issues. Recently, on MTV news it was stated that, "As the music industry becomes increasingly concerned about protecting the

Unless otherwise specified in the Schedule of this Agreement or otherwise agreed in writing by the Band Partnership, Band Partners on creation own a separate and equal share of the copyright in musical works and any of the lyrics of any song that is composed together (a “Co-Written Song”)

United States copyright law recognizes that certain portions of software are protected by copyright law. Like other items protected by copyright law, copyright protection attaches to software as soon as it is "fixed in a tangible medium"--for instance, when written to a disk.Copyright law requires a work to be presented in a "fixed, tangible medium." When computer software first appeared, courts saw it as intangible and labeled it a "utilitarian good" that arose from the running of source code on a machine. In 1980, Congress added computer software to the list of works protected by copyright under the U.S. Copyright Act. Congress clarified the rules surrounding software copyright in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits

The following report will be a critical marketing plan of the EP ‘Weekends’, by the band Project Bongo. With help from academic theory and concepts this analysis will include an overview and aim of the band and its EP and a strategy for the potential seven areas involved in the release of any musical product. Additionally, this plan will produce a timeline and elaborate on a budget to bring the aforementioned theory into practice.