Episode 04: Music Ownership + An Abbey Road Story
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In This Episode
Continuing the conversation around music ownership (11:03)
My last gig at The Village Underground (32:19)
Inside Abbey Road Studios (48:02)
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
#SaveOurStages from the National Independent Venue Association
Crew Nation, a global relief fund for live music crews
Glossary
Neighboring rights are royalties paid out for the public performance of a recording, so any time a record is played on TV, in a club or bar…basically anywhere in public. In 1961 several countries got together for the Rome Convention to find a way to pay performers and producers for their work played in public, and from this neighboring rights were born. The US didn’t attend so they don’t pay out royalties to the performer for neighboring (AKA “master” rights) — only to the publisher and songwriters of the song. However, the US does pay out royalties for the masters on digital platforms. Countries that are part of the Rome Convention pay neighboring rights through collections societies who collect and distribute the money on the performer’s behalf. This ensures that featured and non-featured artists, producers, and record labels get paid royalties any time their recording is played in public spaces around the world (with the exception of the US).
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