This term is referred to as a limited duration monopoly.
What is a copyright?
100
This license means that you must license to someone who wants to use the your work, whether you like it or not.
What is a compulsory license?
100
According to Passman in Chapter 23, of all the members on an artist's team, this person is in charge of the tour.
What is the personal manager?
100
Publishers take on these rights in a publishing deal such as finding users, collecting money, and issuing licenses.
What are administration rights?
100
This agency issues mechanical licenses for publishers.
What is Harry Fox?
DD: What is their Canadian counterpart?
200
Something that is copyrightable is anything that is original and has sufficient materiality to constitute this.
What is a work?
200
Along with cable tv rebroadcasts and the public broadcasting system, these music-playing machines are also included as a type of compulsory license.
What are jukeboxes?
In addition to requiring that the song is a non-dramatic work and that it has previously been recorded and distributed, the compulsory license also restricts how much a person can change a song. What is the restriction?
200
In Chapter 23, Passman defines this as the artist's tour routing, including which cities and halls the artist will be performing in and in what order.
What is the itinerary?
200
The majority of revenues a publisher collects comes from these two types of royalties.
What are mechanical and performance royalties?
Daily Double: Does it take more money to establish yourself as a publisher or a record company?
200
Performance royalties are paid by radio stations, venues, and TV networks to these organizations who then distribute the money to their affiliated songwriters and publishers.
What are Performing Rights Societies?
300
According to _______, as soon as you have a tangible copy of something, you have a copyright.
What is U.S. Law and/or The Copyright Act?
300
Monies paid to copyright owners for the manufacture and distribution of records.
What are mechanical royalties?
300
These refer to concert attendees that walk up to the venue the night of the show to purchase tickets instead of purchasing tickets in advance.
What are walk-ups?
300
An addendum, or additional document, artists and agents attach to the standard contact sent to a promoter or venue that has booked that artist. This document states the artist's requests, or the "guts of the deal."
What is a rider?
300
The two largest performing right societies.
What are BMI and ASCAP?
DD: Another not as well known PRS is?
400
Along with the right to sell your copyright, the right to distribute, the right to make a derivative work, and the right to display the work publicly, copyright includes one more exclusive right.
What is the right to perform the work publicly?
400
This board is made up of three administrative judges who set the rates for all the compulsory licenses.
What is the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB)?
400
This team member would be involved in financial aspects of the tour.
What is the business manager?
400
This is the term that describes the independent publishing companies, whose administration is handled by a major.
What are major affiliates?
400
This phrase means giving away as many tickets as possible to make the venue look full.
What is "papering the house?"
500
This term is defined in the copyright law to mean an audio-only recording.
What is a phonorecord?
500
Promoters will deduct any expense they can (ex. facility/venue rent, advertising, insurance) from the gross receipts of a concert to arrive at the next profit figure. In this specific deal, promoters have the ability to add a profit as an expense before net profits are determined from which a split may come.
What is promoter profit deal?
500
This means the venue or promoter has offered to agreed to some percentage of ticket sales (revenue) to go to the artist as payment.
What is a split?
500
This is the term Passman uses to describe a company that's not affiliated with a major and instead does its own administration.
What is a stand-alone?
DD: This term refers to writers who keep their own publishing.
500
This fee is the amount charged by the building for selling merchandise (T-shirts, posters, etc.) and it's a percentage of the gross sales.