Learn all about music copyright - and how artists, songwriters and composers manage and monetise the recordings, songs and compositions that they create. In this user-friendly webinar, we will provide a beginner's guide to copyright and explain how music rights make money, including streaming, physical discs, live performance, sync and production music, and neighbouring rights. We'll also run through everything you need to discuss and agree when you create music with other music-makers, and outline the key categories of data that make sure you get credited and paid whenever your music is streamed, synced, performed or played.

Topics covered include:

The different music rights and copyright controls
How music rights make money
Copyright ownership, splits and data
Collective licensing
Sync, original commissions and production music
Neighbouring rights

Webinar outline

11.00am - 11.10 - Intro

11.10 - 11.30 - music rights + copyright controls

11.30 - 11.50 - music rights + money

11.50 - 12.10 - copyright ownership, splits + data

12.10 - 12.30 - break

12.30 -12.50- Q&A (submitted during first half)

12.50- 13.05 - collective licensing

13.05- 13.20- sync, commissions, production music

13.20 - 13.35 - neighbouring rights

13.35- 13.45 - performer's rights - Q&A interview with Sam Jordan (MU)

13.45 - 14.00 - Q&A

Timings may deviate

The event is free for MU members. Please register, and the Zoom link will be sent directly from CMU on the morning of the event. For GDPR, by signing up to this event, you agree that your name and email address will be shared with CMU for the purposes of attending this event. A recording of the event will also be made available for playback.

About the host, Chris Cooke:

Chris Cooke is co-Founder and MD of CMU, a company that helps people navigate and understand the music business. It does this through media like the CMU Daily bulletin, Setlist podcast and CMU Library; consultancy unit CMU Insights; and future talent programme CMU:DIY. He also programmes the core conference strands at The Great Escape showcase festival each May and wrote the acclaimed book ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’. CMU is part of Chris’s business 3CM UnLimited, through which he also publishes cultural media ThisWeek Culture and ThreeWeeks at the Edinburgh Festival; and helped launch PR training charity the Taylor Bennett Foundation.

For further information or any questions about the event please contact: writers@themu.org.

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CMU Webinar: Copyright for Songwriters & Composers