1. Music Publishing in the
Entertainment Industry
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2. Music Publishing in the
Entertainment Industry
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3. Functions & structure
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4. Functions & structure
What a publisher does:
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5. Functions & structure
What a publisher does:
 Finding & Keeping
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6. Functions & structure
What a publisher does:
 Finding & Keeping
 Promoting
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7. Functions & structure
What a publisher does:
 Finding & Keeping
 Promoting
 Protecting
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8. Structure
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9. Structure
 Departments:
 Business and legal affairs
 Copyright: registration
 Foreign: notification and information
 Royalty dept: Incoming and outgoing royalties
 Promotion: Marketing and promotional
media re songwriters
 Creative: find new writers, resource and
advise existing ones
 IT: – royalties and cataloguing
 CEO
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10. Functions: The Business role
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11. Functions: The Business role
Protecting
 Protecting copyright
 Registering songs with collecting societies
MCPS-PRS etc
 Negotiating fees and issuing appropriate
licences and making sure that people pay for
their licences
 Keeping up with new developments in
technology, markets, legislation
 Lobbying for legislation or opinion forming to
protect rights of creators.
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12. Functions: The Creative role
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13. Functions: The Creative role
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14. Functions: The Creative role
Finding & keeping
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15. Functions: The Creative role
Finding & keeping
 - Acquiring, developing and supporting
writing talent
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16. Functions:The Creative role
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17. Functions:The Creative role
Promoting
 Exploiting – getting recordings, TV, stage, film,
games and other media uses
 Arranging for publication of
sheet music
 Promoting creation of
new songs
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18. Functions:The Creative role
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19. Functions:The Creative role
Promoting
 Understanding overseas markets & ensuring
good representation in them
 Promoting interest in songs and writers
 Giving users information about songs
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20. Publishers and writers
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21. Publishers and writers
 We asked ourselves:
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22. Publishers and writers
 We asked ourselves:
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23. Publishers and writers
 We asked ourselves:
What is important to each of them in a
relationship?
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24. Both want……...
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25. Both want……...
 Earnings
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26. Both want……...
 Earnings
 Exposure
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27. Both want……...
 Earnings
 Exposure
 Protection
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28. Both want……...
 Earnings
 Exposure
 Protection
 Trust
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29. Writers want……….
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30. Writers want……….
 Security
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31. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
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32. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
 Investment
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33. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
 Investment
 Broad exploitation
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34. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
 Investment
 Broad exploitation
 Expertise
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35. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
 Investment
 Broad exploitation
 Expertise
 Knowledge of technological change
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36. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
 Investment
 Broad exploitation
 Expertise
 Knowledge of technological change
 Non-exclusivity
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37. Writers want……….
 Security
 Special attention
 Investment
 Broad exploitation
 Expertise
 Knowledge of technological change
 Non-exclusivity
 Freedom (to move and write what they
want)
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38. Publishers want……
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39. Publishers want……
 Delivery
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40. Publishers want……
 Delivery
 Professionalism
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41. Publishers want……
 Delivery
 Professionalism
 Lasting Quality Carmina Burana
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42. Publishers want……
 Delivery
 Professionalism
 Lasting Quality Carmina Burana
 Individual quality – ‘X factor’
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43. Publishers want……
 Delivery
 Professionalism
 Lasting Quality Carmina Burana
 Individual quality – ‘X factor’
 Creative input
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44. Publishers want……
 Delivery
 Professionalism
 Lasting Quality Carmina Burana
 Individual quality – ‘X factor’
 Creative input
 Exclusivity
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45. Publishers want……
 Delivery
 Professionalism
 Lasting Quality Carmina Burana
 Individual quality – ‘X factor’
 Creative input
 Exclusivity
 Networking
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46. The song is the key……
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47. The song is the key……
“A great song can make a very low
talented person a star. And a bad
song, with the three greatest singers in
the world, you can’t make it work”
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48. The song is the key……
“A great song can make a very low
talented person a star. And a bad
song, with the three greatest singers in
the world, you can’t make it work”
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49. The song is the key……
“A great song can make a very low
talented person a star. And a bad
song, with the three greatest singers in
the world, you can’t make it work”
Quincy
Jones
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50. Honoured guest: Paul Jordan
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51. Honoured guest: Paul Jordan
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52. Honoured guest: Paul Jordan
Creative Director of
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53. Paul Jordan
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54. Paul Jordan
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55. Paul Jordan
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56. Paul Jordan
 BUG’s catalogue
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57. Paul Jordan
 BUG’s catalogue
 How is BUG’s business organised?
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58. Paul Jordan
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59. Paul Jordan
 Signing writers
 How do you get to sign a writer?
 How do you decide who to sign?
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 What about record deals?
 What are the differences between signing
emerging and established writers?
 What attracts writers & what puts them
off?
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60. Paul Jordan
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61. Paul Jordan
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62. Paul Jordan
 Keeping writers
 How do you nurture/keep a writer?
 How do you promote a writer? Who to?
 To what extent do you advise them about
writing in certain fields?
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63. Paul Jordan
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64. Paul Jordan
 Industry Trends
 What new markets have emerged during
your career and how do you approach
them?
 What changes in publisher/writer
relationships have you seen?
 What changes in the business generally?
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65. Module Programme
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66. Module Programme
 Week 3: The publisher’s legal and financial
roles
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67. Module Programme
 Week 3: The publisher’s legal and financial
roles
 4: Music publishing agreements 1
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68. Module Programme
 Week 3: The publisher’s legal and financial
roles
 4: Music publishing agreements 1
 5: Guided Learning week
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69. Module Programme
 Week 3: The publisher’s legal and financial
roles
 4: Music publishing agreements 1
 5: Guided Learning week
 6: Music publishing agreements 2 Guest
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70. Module Programme
 Week 3: The publisher’s legal and financial
roles
 4: Music publishing agreements 1
 5: Guided Learning week
 6: Music publishing agreements 2 Guest
 7: The Collecting Societies Guests
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71. Module Programme
 Week 3: The publisher’s legal and financial
roles
 4: Music publishing agreements 1
 5: Guided Learning week
 6: Music publishing agreements 2 Guest
 7: The Collecting Societies Guests
CW3 Task 1 in seminar time
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72. Module Programme
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73. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
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74. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
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75. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
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76. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
CW3 Task 3
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77. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
CW3 Task 3
 10: The rules of copyright – Infringements
and remedies Guest
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78. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
CW3 Task 3
 10: The rules of copyright – Infringements
and remedies Guest
CW3 Task 4
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79. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
CW3 Task 3
 10: The rules of copyright – Infringements
and remedies Guest
CW3 Task 4
 11: Music publishing in the future Guests
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80. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
CW3 Task 3
 10: The rules of copyright – Infringements
and remedies Guest
CW3 Task 4
 11: Music publishing in the future Guests
 12: Review of the module
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81. Module Programme
 8: The management of songs: registration
and royalty accounting Guest
CW3 Task 2 in seminar time
 9: Nature of copyright law
CW3 Task 3
 10: The rules of copyright – Infringements
and remedies Guest
CW3 Task 4
 11: Music publishing in the future Guests
 12: Review of the module
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CW4 Assignment due 3 May financial roles
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82. Assignments
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83. Assignments
 CW 3 Task1: 7/3: Precis of Songwriter
contract
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84. Assignments
 CW 3 Task1: 7/3: Precis of Songwriter
contract
 Task2: 14/3: Registration of songs
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85. Assignments
 CW 3 Task1: 7/3: Precis of Songwriter
contract
 Task2: 14/3: Registration of songs
 Task 3: 21/3: Royalty Accounting
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86. Assignments
 CW 3 Task1: 7/3: Precis of Songwriter
contract
 Task2: 14/3: Registration of songs
 Task 3: 21/3: Royalty Accounting
 Task 4: 28/3: Acknowledging receipt of
material
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87. Assignments
 CW 3 Task1: 7/3: Precis of Songwriter
contract
 Task2: 14/3: Registration of songs
 Task 3: 21/3: Royalty Accounting
 Task 4: 28/3: Acknowledging receipt of
material
 CW 4: 3/5: Publisher’s roles,
responsibilities, relationships, licensing
and technological developments
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