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 Media laws and Ethical procedures

Uk Regulation

• Regulation is done to ensure that record companies and other media organisations pay the band or artist a sum of money, everyone a song is performed publicly for their use
• There are multiple regulators such as :
• MCPS- Mechanical Copyright protection  Society- oversee collection of royalties for album and single sales - psychical and digital formats and pay these artists
• PRS- Performing rights society- License the use of members musical compositions, when their lyrics are laid in public, broadcast or TV
• PPL- Phonographic performance limited- License the use of recorded music when played in public
• VPL- video performed limited- deals with the licensing of music videos when they are played in public or broadcast. VPL distributes the fees
• Youtube is becoming very popular as a very of listening to music. However, Youtube does intervene by removing videos content which creates copyright, at others times it allows the video to remain but directs the alerting revenue to the copyright owners.

What is copy right and their laws?

Copyright protects written, theatrical, musical and artistic works. It can also be applied to film. Copy right is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literally and artistic works.

• Form of legal protections given too many kinds of created works such as musical compositions. The work must be protected under copyright laws such as it must be not be copied from other sources or have a minimum degree of creativity.
• once an original work is fixed in a tangible medium the creator has copyright protection
• The rights of a copyright owner:
• Reproduce the work- has the right to make more copies
• Distribute the work- sell copies of the work to the public
• Perform works in public- performance in public
• Make derivative works- remix the song
• Display the work- displaying the lyrics and musical notation on a karaoke machine.

Two types of copyrights:

• Musical works- both the music and lyrics to a song - constitute as copyrightable musical work
• Sound recordings- a sound recordings is work that is comprised of recorded sounds- performance of a song

Samlping:

• Occurs when a portion of a prior recording is incorporated into new recording

Trademark:

• A trade work is a work, name, symbol or device used by a business in commerce to identify its goods and services and to distinguish them form others.
• Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a similar mark