A Copyright is a legal Protection of One’s own work. In the
Field of Music this implies, having sole ownership of the produced Art, along
with its Literary and artistic Content. A Copyright commences, immediately
after one has Produced, Recorded or documented their piece of Music. Copyrights
can also acclaimed on a page of Music Notations (PRS, 2015)
Holding a Copyright enables you to have control of almost
any action taken towards your work of art. This means, that one can you have
all rights to copy, publish, lend or publish that work in any format at any
place. This also grants permission for the owner to perform or choose who performs
his/her art in public places. A Major advantage of owning a copyright to your
production is the ability to market and communicate it with the people. That
is, via broadcasting companies, Television channels and Radio Shows.
In Terms of Music, There are two types of Copyrights that a
Musical piece can be subjected to. The First Variable is its composition while
its second variable is the recording. In Terms of Musical Composition, The
Copyrights are based on the Creative effort of the Composer. This includes the
Melody of the piece and the It’s Music Sheet. If the Song has lyrics, Credits
are given to the Lyricist by Having Rights over the lyrical content of the
track. The Second Variable is the Musical Recording of the track. In this
process, The Recording/Sound Engineer in-charge makes subtle changes to the
Music/Mix with his own style and creativity. This Copy Right is made to protect
the Works of the Sound Engineer and is infringed on as the Tangible Medium of
what the Composer has produced. The Recording Copy-right is in no way the same
as a Musical Composition Copy-right and neither can it be used as a substitute
for it. The Recording Copyright also provides for the ownership of distributing
the piece of work (DiMA, 2015)
As for Any work I have done in my University, I do not own
any Rights on the Productions. Since All my Productions have been Re-mixing
Already Existing Content I would not be Legible to have any Composition Rights
or Recording Rights over it. For those of you unaware there is also a section
of Content Available that is listed as the Creative Common where the Owner does
not own any Copy Right over the Piece of work and allows us to freely
experiment with that particular piece of art.
References
DiMA.
(2015). Copy Rights in Music.
Retrieved
from
PRS.
(2015). About Copy Rights.
Bibliography
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