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Music and copyright / Ian McDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonald, Ian, 1960 July 20- author.
- Australian Copyright Council, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright--Australia.
- Copyright.
- Copyright--Music--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Strawberry Hills, NSW : Australian Copyright Council, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- E137v01
- Contents:
- Intro
- 1 About this guide
- Who this guide is for
- How this guide is set out
- Information, not legal advice
- 2 Some things you need to know about copyright …
- Copyright law is set out in the Copyright Act 1968
- Copyright protects a wide range of material
- Lyrics, music, recordings and film or video footage can each have separate copyright protection
- Copyright doesn't protect techniques or styles
- Copyright is unlikely to protect a name or title
- There's no registration of copyright in Australia
- Copyright lasts a long time
- The person who creates the material generally owns copyright
- The copyright owner can generally control how people use their material
- You'll usually need a clearance to use other people's copyright material in your compositions, songs and recordings
- Copyright is a type of property that can be transferred to other people
- People who infringe copyright leave themselves open to legal action
- 3 … and "moral rights" for creators …
- Moral rights apply in relation to music and lyrics, for example, but not recordings
- Creators have moral rights, whether or not they own copyright
- People using lyrics, artworks, music and films usually have to credit the relevant creator/s
- Creators can usually take action against anyone who credits someone else for their work
- Creators can usually take action against anyone who credits them wrongly when someone else has changed their work
- People using lyrics, artworks, music and films usually can't use material in a way that might damage the honour or reputation of the creators
- Moral rights don't need to be respected if the creator has given a consent
- Your moral rights may not apply in some cases, if it's "reasonable" in all the circumstances not to respect them
- Moral rights usually last for as long as copyright
- 4 … and performers' rights.
- People wanting to film, record or broadcast a performer usually need authorisation
- Performers sometimes co-own copyright in sound recordings of their performances
- Performers sometimes have moral rights
- 5 Debunking some myths
- You need to post your songs to yourself by registered mail to prove you wrote them …
- You register your copyright with APRA …
- You only get copyright once you've been published …
- It's not protected unless it has a copyright notice on it
- It's OK to sample recordings, provided you only use 3 seconds or no more than 10% …
- You can use anything you find on the net …
- You can use copyright material provided you attribute the creator …
- You only need to worry about copyright if you're charging money …
- Copyright owners should see our use of their material as good promotion …
- It's all right to use other people's material if you change it …
- You own copyright if you pay someone to create something for you …
- Copyright only benefits big companies and established songwriters …
- 6 Composing and songwriting
- Overview
- When does copyright begin?
- Who is going to own rights?
- Heading off potential problems with ownership
- Agreements between band members
- Including other people's material in your work
- If you own rights: what then?
- 7 Getting ready to perform
- Copying print music and parts
- Making backing tapes
- Transposing
- Altering lyrics
- Arranging
- Downloading guitar charts and lyrics from the net
- Hiring music and parts for performances
- Borrowing music and parts for performances
- Importing music to build a performing library
- 8 Performing
- General issues
- Performing music in "dramatic contexts"
- Staging musicals
- Promotion
- 9 Recording
- Recording your own material
- Recording covers
- Using session musos
- Producers
- Sampling.
- Contracts with record companies
- Packaging
- 10 Publishing
- What is "publishing"?
- Contracts with publishers
- 11 DJing
- Playing songs one after the other
- Moral rights
- Copying recordings to use while DJing
- Selling mixes and remixes
- Copyright protection for mixes and remixes
- 12 Making your copyright work for you
- Copyright-based income
- Non-copyright income streams
- Alternative ways of generating income
- Creative Commons licensing
- 13 They're playing your song?
- Can you take action for copyright infringement?
- Can you take action for infringement of your moral rights?
- Can you take action for infringement of your performers' rights?
- What to do if your rights are infringed
- 14 Collecting societies
- Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
- Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society (AMCOS)
- Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
- Copyright Agency
- Viscopy
- Screenrights
- Aboriginal Artists Agency
- Christian music licensing organisations
- 15 Other useful resources
- Australian Copyright Council
- Arts Law Centre of Australia
- Australian Guild of Screen Composers
- Australian Music Centre (AMC)
- Music Rights Australia
- Other resources.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-875833-16-1
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