{"id":3790,"date":"2015-03-30T21:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:45:35","slug":"understanding-uk-copyright-law-an-interactive-workshop-for-music-writers-and-composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2015\/03\/30\/understanding-uk-copyright-law-an-interactive-workshop-for-music-writers-and-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding UK Copyright Law: An Interactive Workshop for Music Writers and Composers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post by Bartolomeo Meletti<\/a>, Lead Producer of\u00a0CopyrightUser.org<\/a>, a co-production between CIPPM (Bournemouth University) and CREATe (University of Glasgow).<\/em><\/p>\n

On Thursday 19th March 2015, the Digital Catapult Centre hosted the second in\u00a0the series of workshops entitled \u2018Understanding UK Copyright Law\u2019, a joint initiative of the\u00a0Digital Catapult<\/a>,\u00a0CREATe<\/a>, CopyrightUser.org<\/a>, and\u00a0the Copyright Hub<\/a>. The purpose of these workshops is to provide useful guidance about copyright to different sectoral groups of the creative industries, starting from the questions and concerns that these groups have. The\u00a0first workshop of the series<\/a>\u00a0was held at the Digital Catapult Centre on 3rd December 2014, and was addressed to\u00a0photographers and illustrators. On 19th March, the focus was on the music sector and the event attracted more than\u00a040 attendees from London and across the UK, consisting mainly of songwriters, composers, and music producers.<\/p>\n

Chaired by Prof. Ruth Towse<\/a> (Co-Director of CIPPM; CREATe Fellow in Cultural Economics; Editor of CopyrightUser.org), the workshop consisted of two panel sessions: each panel speaker was asked to give a 10-minute talk, and the audience participated with their questions and comments. The first session included presentations by Sarah Williams (Big Picture Legal), Vick Bain (CEO, BASCA), Peter Jenner (Sincere Management. Music Manager and Record Producer), and Bartolomeo Meletti (CopyrightUser.org, CREATe). The second panel consisted of Sue Hantsch (Music Publishers Association), Kenny Barr (PhD Student in Music\/Law, CREATe. Tour Manager and Artist Manager), and Dominic Young (CEO, The Copyright Hub).<\/p>\n\"2_audience\"<\/a>\n

Both sessions produced very lively and interesting discussions between the panellists and the attendees.\u00a0Questions from music writers and composers concerned ownership of rights in cases of joint authorship. This led to a stimulating conversation on the relationship between copyright law and contracts, and the importance of writing agreements at early stages of production in order to avoid expensive disputes afterwards. However, one of the revelations\u00a0of the discussion was that songwriters and composers \u2013 especially when starting out \u2013 tend not to think about music as a \u2018business\u2019. Therefore, often they do not sign those agreements that could prevent arguments with other rights holders \u2018when the money comes in\u2019.<\/p>\n

Other points of discussion included the challenges that digital distribution of music poses for copyright and the problematic nature of the \u2018making available\u2019 right. In general, the interaction between speakers and the audience generated an interesting landscape of the complexity of copyright law for the music sector, where different exclusive and related rights can be held by different people involved in the production of a piece of music. During my talk, I showcased how CopyrightUser.org tries to make complex copyright information accessible through explanatory guidance produced by leading copyright experts and illustrated through compelling multimedia materials. The event ended with Dominic Young explaining how the Copyright Hub aims to make licensing easier<\/a>, by hiding the complexity of copyright behind a technology that would help copyright work the way the Internet works.<\/p>\n\"3_form\"<\/a>\n

From the point of view of CopyrightUser.org, these workshops are a great opportunity to explore what people, businesses and organisations operating in different sectors of the creative economy do not currently know but\u00a0want to know about copyright. In addition to carrying out a series of\u00a0copyright education initiatives<\/a>, we are also planning to produce specific guidance for sectoral groups such as photographers, archives, libraries, video game developers, and music writers and composers. According to the\u00a0bottom-up methodology<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0engagement with primary creators<\/a>\u00a0that have characterised the Copyright User project since its very beginning, we are starting this process by gathering data on what the major copyright\u00a0concerns are for\u00a0these groups. During this workshop as well as\u00a0the one before this (with photographers and illustrators), the attendees were asked to fill a form with their copyright questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post by Bartolomeo Meletti, Lead Producer of\u00a0CopyrightUser.org, a co-production between CIPPM (Bournemouth University) and CREATe (University of Glasgow). On Thursday 19th March 2015, the Digital Catapult Centre hosted the second in\u00a0the series of workshops entitled \u2018Understanding UK Copyright Law\u2019, a joint initiative of the\u00a0Digital Catapult,\u00a0CREATe, CopyrightUser.org, and\u00a0the Copyright Hub. The purpose of these workshops is… Read more » about Understanding UK Copyright Law: An Interactive Workshop for Music Writers and Composers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":3791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-industries-2","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}