Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age

Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age provides tools to navigate the complex music marketplace, demystifying laws, business practices, and trends, and empowering music creators, managers, and entrepreneurs to make informed decisions. It covers exclusive rights, copyright protection, registration, recent developments, music licensing, royalty collection societies, and other useful organizations and services.

Format: Hardback
Length: 178 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The music marketplace today is more complex than ever before, with a vast array of digital services and business models, as well as corresponding revenue streams, all of which are governed by copyright. In this guide, Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age, author Casey Rae takes readers on a step-by-step journey through the world of music copyright, providing them with the tools they need to navigate this intricate system.

One of the key challenges facing music creators, managers, and entrepreneurs is the complexity of the laws, business practices, and trends that enable—and sometimes frustrate—a rapidly evolving industry. Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age demystifies these laws and practices, empowering music creators to make informed decisions about their work.

The book covers a wide range of topics, including the exclusive rights attached to expressive works and how they correspond to different roles and royalties within the music marketplace. It provides information on protecting and registering copyrights, as well as recent developments in the courts and Congress pertaining to music copyright law.

In addition, Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age offers valuable strategies for music licensing, including information on how to sign up for royalty collection societies and an array of other useful organizations and services.

Whether you are a musician, songwriter, producer, or music industry professional, Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age is an essential resource that will help you understand and navigate the complex world of music copyright. With its clear and concise language, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the laws, business practices, and trends that shape the music industry, and empowers music creators to make informed decisions about their work.

So why wait? Pick up a copy of Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age today and start exploring the world of music copyright!

Weight: 396g
Dimension: 159 x 235 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538104835