Legal Question in Entertainment Law in United Kingdom
Music Copyright law
I am currently acting as an agent for photographers
and illustrators. I now wiah to include musicians on
my books. The idea is that clients will go to our
website to hear samples of the musicians work and
request a us to supply them an original work by their
chosen artist for a commercial/website etc. I'd like
to offer rates for exclusive and unexclusive jobs.
My question is what legal documents will I need to get
draw
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Music Copyright law
You will need some kind of Submission Agreement from each musician. You can borrow the business terms from whatever you are using for your other artists, but you are quite correct in identifying copyright as an issue. A few thoughts:
Elements of the agreement should include: a representation that the submitted work is the original composition of the musician; that the composer has registered his copyright in the work (and you should ask for a copy of the registration certificate); that your Web site is licensed to make copies and facilitate performance of the work; and that your company has no liability for unauthorized use of the work, which the musician must recognize as a possibility created (or made easier) by having the work in digital form on the Web.
Hope this helps -- good luck!
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