regulation spotify ed

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Regulation Ed Sheeran

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Copyright

• The music industry relies on royalties generated by the licensing ofcopyrighted songs and recordings as

a primary form of payment formusicians. Intellectual property lawand licensing systems hae gone

through signicant ad"ustments oerrecent years as a result of the rise ofdigital music# but much of the

industry$s historic legal framework


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Royalties

Performance Royalties

The fees music users pay when music is performedpublicly. The use of music oer the radio# in arestaurant or bar# or oer a serice like Spotify or%andora is considered a public performance.

• Mechanical Royalties

&echanical royalties paid to songwriters and artistswhen music is licensed 'think C( or inyl) but alsowhen music is streamed 'streaming mechanicals)

*on+demand, 'like Spotify). Songwriting mechanicalroyalties are set by goernment through what$scalled a compulsory license# which right now is set toabout -. cents per copy.

http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/%23royalties-in-detailhttp://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/%23royalties-in-detail


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• The company# owned by billionaire /en 0laatnik# sawstreaming music reenue from its recorded music

diision surpass digital download dollars for the rst timein its history# with streaming reenue "umping 11

percent.

• 2hile the company doesn$t break out the diisionbetween download and streaming dollars# oerall global

digital reenue was 34-5 million# up percent for the6uarter to &arch 1# 478# or 7.9 percent in constantcurrency.

• “Streaming will help return the industry to

sustainable, long-term growth,” said C! StephenCooper"

• The music industry saw 3.- billion in streaming reenuein 479# from sources such as :ouTube# Spotify and

%andora# or 45 percent of the oerall pie# according to

the Recording Industry Association of America.


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• #abels represent artists" $rtists record soundrecordings"Publishing Companies represent songwriters"Songwriters write compositions"

• Eery recording has two copyrights; one for thesound recording and one for the composition.

• The only way Spotify 'and all other streamingserices like Apple &usic# Rhapsody and Tidal) get

music for their serice is from distributors. Eerylabel# ma"or or indie# works with distributors. Eeryunsigned# self+released artist works with a digitaldistributor 'like (istro=id# C( 0aby and Tunecore)to get their music to streaming serices.


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• The lawsuit alleges that Spotify not only hasn$t paid all ofthe mechanical royalties# but that they didn$t obtain theproper licenses either.

• they didn$t negotiate directly with the publishingcompanies for the mechanical license nor did they send out>?Is either. (istributors get paid from Spotify royalties forthe sound recording# >?T the composition.

• Spotify 'and all streaming serices) worked out the soundrecording rates they pay labels and artists 'ia thedistributor) directly. The compulsory royalty rates forcompositions# howeer# are set by the @S goernment.Streaming serices# howeer# don$t hae to get permission to use a composition# but they do hae to obtain a licensefor it. A license can either be obtained directly from thepublisher or they can send a >otice of Intent '>?I) to thepublisher "ust saying that they intend to use thecomposition '17 days prior to releasing the song on theserice).


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Regulation + Spotify + 2

• 2hat is I%B

• 2ho owns '*rights holders,) Ed Sheeran$s I%B

• ow does the owner make moneyB

• 2hat are the dierent types of RoyaltiesB• 2hat does Ed Sheeran think about royalties

from streaming sericesB

• as Spotify done anything wrongB

• Thinking about streaming and royalties whateect has this had on the industryB


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&ash ups

• https;DDwww.rocketlawyer.comDblogDmashups+and+sampling+whats+fair+use+-587

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Sampling

http://www.whosampled.com/Ed-Sheeran/?sp=1http://www.whosampled.com/Ed-Sheeran/?sp=1


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%arody


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Changes to @= legislation allowingthe parody of copyright works '479)

• In the past comedians like French and Saunders and many others haeparodied famous lms# TG shows and songs using the copyrightmaterial in them# but there has always been a risk they could be suedby the copyright owner.

• Copyright owners would often grant a licence to those who wanted touse their work# and charge a fee for doing so. That meant many peoplewanting to parody were deterred from doing so. oweer# the iew thatparody is a form of free eHpression and creatiity has drien the changeto the law.

• Recently theres been an eHplosion of online parodies made by

comically re+editing or Jmashing+upJ snippets of TG# lm and songs. Amash+up of The Apprentice has had more than e million hits# while aparody of the &iley Cyrus song 2recking 0all has had more than 87million.

• The law should lead to a growth of that kind of creatiity by parodistswho can now plunder copyright material from moies to boy bands.

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