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Music Law refers to legal aspects of the music industry, and certain legal aspects in other sectors of the entertainment industry. The music industry includes record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the live events sector and of course performers and artists. The terms "music law" and "entertainment law", along with "business affairs ...
The Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act, or Music Modernization Act or MMA (H.R. 1551, Pub. L. 115–264 (text) (PDF)) is United States legislation signed into law on October 11, 2018, aimed to modernize copyright -related issues for music and audio recordings due to new forms of technology such as digital streaming.
Music licensing. Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. [1] Music licensing is intended to ensure that the owners of copyrights on musical works are compensated for certain uses of their work. A purchaser has limited rights to use the work without a separate agreement.
Music censorship refers to the practice of editing musical works for various reasons, stemming from a wide variety of motivations, including moral, political, or ...
Performing rights. Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music's composer /lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two). [citation needed] Performances are considered "public" if they take place in a public place and the audience is ...
While the DPRA expanded the sound recording’s performance right, performers have still criticized the DPRA’s comparative inequity [5] [6] because composers still have a much wider performance right than performers.
Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright -holding record company) did not give consent. In the contemporary legal environment, it is a form of copyright infringement, which may be either a civil wrong or a crime depending on jurisdiction.
Bootleg recording. The first popular rock bootleg, Bob Dylan 's Great White Wonder, released in July 1969. A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. Making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging. Recordings may be copied and traded ...