company meeting 10.25.10
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Monday, October 25th we welcomed Claytoven Richardson and Larry Batiste to speak to the crew about music publishing and copyrights. Larry and Claytoven are longtime supporters of Youth Movement Records and were the 2 dynamic individuals that helped YMR pioneer our Musical Mentoring Project in 2009, which culminated in the production of Pure Delite album.TRANSCRIPT
COMPANY MEETINGMUSIC PUBLISHING &
COPYRIGHT
October 25, 2010
With Special Guests Larry Batiste and Claytoven Richardson
The Usual
Sign In Grab Snacks
Happy Birthday Tamar!
Icebreaker
Who do you think makes more money? Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston? And why?
(Andrea)
About.com
What’s New? Status of Current Projects
Mixtape Release Discussion Next Week!Next Member of the Month: Alex (Emily)Music Video: Watzreal (Dan)Video: YMR Vision+Donation (Diaris)Collaboration with Fresh Magazine (Kai)Building Event Series (Diaris)
Performance OpportunitiesSF Arts Market (Thursdays)
Other AnnouncementsCan still apply for GRAMMY Camp – see YMR blog
Did You Know?
A Publisher - Essentially another level of copyright
control for songs, publishing deals simply put a
person in charge of making sure the appropriate
amount of royalties are collected for a song, in
exchange for a portion of those royalties and some
rights to the song. Most publishers go further than
that and actively try to place songs in revenue
generating positions, like advertisements or with
other artists for cover version, etc.
Meet Larry Batiste & Claytoven Richardson Business Partners w/ similar
backgrounds Singing, songwriting, production Horn+strings arrangement for Charlie
Wilson’s latest single, “You Are”
Mariah vs. Whitney Whitney makes a lot of money, but not from
songwriting… Break it down: Mariah made a lot of money
from being an artist – performing and songwriting
As an artist, before you can make a dime, the label has to recoup their costs (make their $ back)
This is why Toni Braxton and other artists went bankrupt (owe a lot of $, to label and other contributors)
Labels want artists that can write, perform, look after publishing (i.e., 360 deals)
Music Publishing & CopyrightWhat is copyright?
Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works.
What does copyright protect?
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "What Works Are Protected."
Song as Property
Song is a piece of property (like a car, house, etc.), but “intellectual property” because you can’t touch it (not tangible)
Get your rent from the people that are using your property!
Protecting your Property Insurance = Copyright for songs (Look up tour of the
Library of Congress) Common Law Copyright – the moment you create
something, it belongs to you… Submit as a “suite” Statutory payments for damages from stealing stuff, also
for punitive damages (just stress of consequences, etc.) One issue with the suite is that you have to be really
organized, also the minimum payment you’re owed will be divided when copyright is infringed.
If you have your own publishing company, you might want to have an administrative company handle that aspect so you can focus on being creative.
Copyright Process
www.copyright.gov GET FAMILIAR!!! PA = Performing Arts (check off) CO = form
Collaborations Basically a marriage Everything you do should be in WRITING Name, contribution, percentage if
something happens, dates, signatures, etc. Best rule is generally to share everything
equally Government – half the song is the music
(production), other half is the lyrics and melody
Publishing Scott Joplin Research this pioneer! You have the right to be both the publisher and
the songwriter Interested in setting up a publishing company?
– you’re now part of the educational family of Claytoven – send questions to [email protected] or [email protected]
Publisher owns and manages the copyright, exploits the copyright (work on sync, covers/samples, etc.), does accounting, negotiating, submitting documentation, etc.
How do I get paid??
Mechanical royalty – getting paid for copies of the song that were mechanically reproduced (CDs, mp3s, etc.) 9.1cents/song = rate
Any company or distributor: iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon,
Performance: anything played on the radio- BMI, ASCAP, SESAC
Sync – played at stadium, TV show, video games (Harminix- Rock Band creator),
Media Share
Check out these videos on
How to copyright a song: Guide to Publishing
How to copyright a song: How to copyright music
Discussion
Questions? What are your key takeaways from
today’s meeting? What do you still want to learn? What are the next steps in learning more
about this topic?
A Week’s Glance YMR . . . Workshop Schedule
Tuesday: ○ Music Production 5PM in Room 257○ Artist Development 5:30PM in Studio○ Vocals 5PM in Room 302○ DJ Crew 5PM in Room 306
Wednesday:○ ProTools 5PM in Studio○ Freestyle 5PM in Room 302
Thursday:○ Vocals 5PM in Room 302○ Piano, Bass, Guitar in Room 306
Friday:○ Advanced Recording Production 3:30PM in Studio
Next Week at YMR
Company meeting: Releasing a Mixtape
○ Special guest: Zen Seville Marketing Director at LivenFire Records &
Promotional Company