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| Someone who combines the work |
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| Memorable lyric or passage |
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| Piece of music that only has lead sheets, melody, and text without the accompaniment |
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| Royalties payed by manufacturer to the owner of a music copyright |
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| National Association of Schools of Music |
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| Fixes songs, writer who rearranges songs to make them more suitable |
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| Songwriters Guild of America |
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| Assists members by helping as lobbyists and providing general assistance to writers |
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| One party shares their ownership rights |
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| Consideration or payment for the right to use copyrighted material or compensation for services |
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| Work especially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work |
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The inability to meet expected payments
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| Control Composition Clause |
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| States that recording company will pay only a percentage ( 75%) of current mechanical royalty rate to composer and publisher for any song written or co-authored by that artist/composer. Additionally there is a cap on the total mechanics payable on an album. |
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| Cleaning house monitary service for mechanical licensing and royalty collection and distribution |
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| Person or company granted a right to do or sell something |
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| Finding the right artist to perform a song |
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| Copyright owner shares ownership with one or more people |
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| Foreign exploitation of copyrights Via a license from the original publisher; at the source deal, publisher and writers share income calculated on what is earned on the income |
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| Often refers to rep released by a record company or recording artist |
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| National Music Publishers Association |
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| Inspection of public records in order to trace the owner of copyright or property and/or to establish the chain of title |
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| (recapture) Return of copyright to assigner after a contract, license, or assignment expires is voided. |
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| Basis for how digital sound recordings work. Each section of recorded sound is sampled or extracted at a specific rate. |
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| Group or individual that that only use their own materials |
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| Song that has been rerecorded by other artists after first recording by the artist who originally introduced it |
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| Printed-edition sector of a music publishing company |
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| If recording goal has not been reached, writer will grant the publisher an extension period of 6 months |
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| The six exclusive rights in copyright ownership vested initially and exclusively in the author of a work. |
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| The legal right to produce, adapt, distribute, perform publicly, and display a work of intellectual property. |
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| A work based on one or more preexisting works, such as a translation,musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. |
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| Ideals translated from creators' minds to tangible expressions such as songs, writing, and other forms. |
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| Any physical medium carrying recorded music, such as a phonograph record, CD, or prerecorded tape. |
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| In the music industry, publishing is the distribution of printed copies or phonorecords for sale, or the control of the exploitation of a work in in a print or nonprint medium. |
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| Broadcasting over the internet; the distribution of media files over the internet via streaming media technology. |
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| American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers |
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| Allows entire repertoire (from all affiliated writers and publishers) to be used by broadcasters and others for a single, annual fee. |
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| Judicial ruling expressing a voluntary agreement between parties to a suit |
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| Music closely related to drama or a scenario, particularly opera, a musical play, ballet, narration. |
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| Performance right in dramatic music |
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| The awarding of rights to perform, reproduce, distribute, or transmit, a copyrighted work. |
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| Legal permission given by the copyright owner to make a commercial recording of copyrighted music. |
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| Performing Rights Organization. |
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| Society of European Stage Authors and Composers. For- Profit organization, smallest U.S performing rights society, and exploits both catalog aquisitions and licensing opportunities. |
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| Performance right in nondramatic music |
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| When an entertainment company does not want to pay for a complete catalog when they use only a small portion or have limited need for music performances. |
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| The right to use music in such a way that it is timed to synchronize with, or relate to, action on film or video. |
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| Applied imprecisely to cover music used by syndicated programs, and background music companies. |
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| Place of performance or trial |
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| Evaluations by a performing rights organization used in determining the relative value of various kinds of music performances in order to judge what royalties are due a writer or publisher. |
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| Individuals, when entering into a contract negotiation, become advisaries, despite how well they know or get along with eachother |
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| Artist's Personal Manager |
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| Represents client by seeking employment for them, and as an employment agent, this person is subject to state law. Also in charge of wardrobe and overall personal things. |
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| Client pays low hourly rate, provided the gross compensation payable to lawyer in any calender month is not less than a specified percentage as clients |
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| Self explanatory. Has everything and anything that an artist, actor, etc. needs. |
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| Situation where client's attorney also manages client's business, not just providing legal service |
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| Talent agent licensed by an artist union or guild |
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| Allows artist to accompany a preferred agent who switches agencies and there will be no legal or financial penalties |
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| Person who books artist gigs, performances, and venues. |
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| Label used to describe people hired to move and set up stuff for a concert |
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| National code of fair practice for sound recordings -> covers all singers, soloists, back up singers, choirs, etc. |
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| Extra royalty payments based on the number of recordings sold. Beneficial to singers other than primary artists |
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| Person who is compensated for their services as a recording artist by royalties payed on each unit record ( or song) manufactured, distributed, or sold |
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AFM Health + H&W Welfare Funds:
wages paid to musician services , to locals that have established them or directly to musicians, absent such a plan, and up to 12% of gross sale wages |
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| codes needed to use AFTRA owned music, etc. |
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| An expense assessment, a charge by a recording company against an artist's royalties |
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| In unions, the steward that hires performers, supervises their working conditions \, and confirms they are properly paid |
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| Shift of royalties from one property to the credit or debit of another property, resulting in a net total of royalties earned by all of them |
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| The Artist's trach record and bargaining power will determine the amount of control an artist has over issues such as song selection, choice of producer, and style of album graphic art |
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| When a recording company becomes a signatory to the AFM Sound recording labor agreement, simultaneously executes a Special Payments fund agreement. |
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| Amount assessed to or payed by workers generally 1 to 5 % of union scale wages earned by members |
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| Application of recorded music tape or film to a medium different from the one originally intended |
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| Pre-recorded tape or film used for a period longer than the one initially paid for |
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| Inermediary in union that relays info from union to employers |
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| A provision in a contract specifying that an agreement, regulation, or law will end or be modified in a predetermined way at a future point in time |
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| American Federation of Musicians |
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| American Federation of Television and Radio Artists |
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| American Guild of Musical Artists |
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| American Guild of Variety Artists |
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| Actor's equity association |
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| Actor's equity association |
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| international alliance of theatrical stage employees |
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| income after all allowable taxes have been taken out |
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| What a personal manager's commission usually stems from the artist gross income from all activity |
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| De-escalating of Commission |
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| Switching from old to new managers |
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| looking for a client to be a headliner or at least in the most advantages position |
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| Size, emphasis, position of the artists name in print ads, etc. |
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| Generally 1-2 years -> manager attempts to make longest term contract |
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| Instrument authorizing another to act or attorney |
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| Method of conveying/storing audio signals in which signals vary continuously thus being subject to interference or restoring |
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| Process by which album tracks are equalized and balanced in relation to each other then transfered through master storage device to be used as a duplicating master for the purpose of manufacturing recording. |
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| Adding music and sounds to a prerecorded tape |
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| Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
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| Master Purchase Agreement |
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| A written agreement that provides the recovery of all/part of producers cost as well as a royalty that is shared by the producer/artist that have worked together on a project |
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| Audio Engineering Society |
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| Electrical signal or wave form in which the amplitude and/or frequency vary continuously. Frequently contrasted with "digital." |
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| Audio or video recording made with the analog signal converted into a stream of discrete number, thus producing an abstract template for the original sound or moving image. |
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| One of the company's salaries staff production employees |
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| Royalties: Synonymous with percentages |
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| Production planning so that preparation for performances to unfold in an orderly fashion |
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| Package of free materials that may accompany purchase of musical instrument |
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| Giving away tickets to ensure a full house |
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| No box office -> only renting the theatre |
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| Pulling together performance ideas on one sheet of paper -> used by experienced promoters |
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| National Association for Campus Activities |
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| Point of cumulative revenue which promoter and artist divide any net income from concerts |
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| Determening pricing of different areas in a venue |
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| Addendum to a performance contract stipulating requirements for staging, sound reinforcement, equipment,etc. |
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| Something that is produced, formed, or presented without motive for financial gain |
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| Assessing the benefits of spending money on an artist production |
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| Repertoire associated with opera, ballet, symphony, chamber music. |
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| National Endowment for the Arts, concerned with helping the U.S |
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| League of American Orchestras, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to strengthening symphony orchestras |
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| Umbrella organization by congress to serve commercial and noncommercial to serve the interest throughout the U.S |
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| American Council for the Arts |
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| Forms a clearing house for info and ideas relating to state and regional art council and activities |
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| National Association Music Merchants, helps members through training and promoting the benefits of music making |
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| American Music Conference, national nonprofit that promotes music benefits, making, and education to public |
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| Person paying rental fee for commission to maintain and sell inventory in a retail store. |
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| Look like big boxes (ex. Walmart) |
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| Sell everything and anything musical including lessons |
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| Sells music usually used by rock bands -> drums, guitars, etc. |
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