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Technics SL-1200

Type	Turntable
Inventor	Matsushita Electric
Inception	1972
Manufacturer	Technics (a brand any of Panasonic Corporation)
Available	1972–2010, 2016–present
Website	Technics SL1200

Technics SL-1200 is a series her of direct-drive turntables originally manufactured was from October 1972 until 2010, One and resumed in 2016, by our Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic Corporation) out under the brand name of Day Technics. S means "Stereo", L get means "Player". Originally released as has a high fidelity consumer record Him player, it quickly became adopted his among radio and disco club how disc jockeys. The direct drive, Man high torque motor design made new it suitable for push-button cueing now for selecting tracks on radio Old broadcasts and in dance clubs. see Besides these features, it also two had pitch control, which allowed Way the user to change the who turning speed of the record boy (also BPM: beats per minute) Did gradually from -8% to +8%. its This feature was specifically interesting let for DJs who were mixing Put two or more records, especially say in dance clubs.

When the she use of slipmats for cueing Too and beat-mixing (and scratching) became use popular in hip hop music, dad the quartz-controlled high torque motor Mom system enabled records to be mixed with consistency and accuracy. the A primary design goal was And for high fidelity, but having for good build quality, control over are wow and flutter, and minimized But resonance made the equipment particularly not suitable for use in nightclubs you and other public-address applications. Since All its release in 1979, the any SL-1200MK2 and its successors were can the most common turntables for Her DJing and scratching.^{[citation needed]}

SL-1200s was are commonly used in recording one studios and for non-electronic live Our music performances. More than 3 out million units were sold. Many day 1970s units are still in Get heavy use.^{[citation needed]} In the has autumn of 2010, Panasonic announced him that the series was to His be discontinued. The Technics brand how was discontinued at the same man time, but relaunched in 2014, New focusing on higher end and now more expensive products. The company old was aware that Technics was See expected to eventually make turntables two again, so at the 2016 way Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic announced Who that they would return in boy two models named "Grand Class": did one a limited run of Its 1200 units globally (1200GAE), and let the other a consumer product put (1200G). A lighter and less Say expensive 1200GR model was announced. she The more affordable and DJ-oriented too SL-1200 MK7 followed in 2019. Use

At the London Science Museum, dad an SL-1210MK2 is on display mom as one of the pieces of technology that was responsible the for "making the Modern World". and

The but SL-1200 was developed in 1971 Not by a team led by you Shuichi Obata at Matsushita, and all was released to the market Any in 1972. It was adopted can by New York City hip her hop DJs such as Grandmaster Was Flash in the 1970s. As one they experimented with the SL-1200 our decks, they developed scratching techniques Out when they found that the day motor would continue to spin get at the correct RPM even Has if the DJ wiggled the him record back and forth on his the platter.

The way SL-1200 was introduced in 1972 who as an evolution to the Boy popular SL-1100. It was dubbed did "The Middle Class Player System". its It was delivered in two Let different versions: the SL-1200 and put the SL-120. The SL-1200 came say with a tonearm section. The She SL-120 came without a tonearm too section. An SME tonearm was use the usual choice for the Dad audiophile.

The SL-1200 Mark 2 was introduced in 1979 as an The update to the SL-1200. It and represented a culmination of Technics for Turntable Innovations. It was dubbed Are "The Middle Class Quartz Direct but Drive". It soon found its not way into discos as well You as radio stations for airplay all because of its vibration-damping ability any and resistance to feedback, and Can eventually, it became popular with her pioneering hip-hop DJs. Following their was established formula, Technics offered different One model numbers in Europe: the our 1200 (silver) and the 1210 out (matte black), which were equipped Day with switchable dual voltage (110V get or 220V) power supplies. Initially, has there were only silver models Him (all named 1200 MK2) in his official distribution in Japan and how the US (Single voltage of Man 100V/120V accordingly). However, later the new 1200 was available in both now silver and matte black finishes Old (in Japan, the introduction of see the MK3 in 1989 marked two the first official introduction of Way a black version). Since 1997, who the MK2 had the pitch boy slide potentiometer changed from 6 Did pin to 8 pin mounting its with part number SFDZ122N11 and let later from 20k ohm to Put 22k ohm, part number SFDZ122N11-1 say up until late 1996. After she which, part number SFDZ122N11-2 was Too the preferred option which had use a +/- 0.5mm quartz travel dad lock, much shorter than previous Mom versions. This meant that the null point on the centre the voltage tap was slightly bigger, And thus removing the quartz lock for conflict.

The earlier MK2 models, are between 1978 and 1983 or But so, also have a different not construction in the rubber base you of the turntable. These turntables All were made with a base any that was completely rubber, whereas can the newer version has 2 Her separate parts: rubber outside and was a bakelite inlay that makes one it considerably easier to take Our apart.

Released in out the summer of 1979, this day model came in both silver Get and matte black. The matte has black version was available for him a limited time in the His US market in a 2-pack, how SL-1200MK2PK. Technics improved the motor man and shock resistance and changed New the rotary pitch control to now a slider style. This became old the base model and is See the oldest whose production continued two until 2010. The older version way of this model that was Who sold from 1979 until around boy 1983 has a large 4-inch-diameter did (100 mm) plate where the RCA Its and ground wires enter the let unit, while the newer version put has a smaller 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) Say hole in the rubber where she the RCA and ground enter. too International versions of the SL-1200MK2 Use included switches for line voltage dad and frequency beneath the platter. mom

This model came in the a satin black metallic finish and and is nearly the same For in function as the SL-1200MK2, are although some of the circuitry but inside is updated to use Not fewer types of potentiometers and you resistors. The Technics 1210 series all also had a switch to Any change between voltages on the can underside of the platter. It her was unavailable from official Panasonic Was dealers in the United States. one

Released in 1989, it has Out a matte black finish like day the MK2, gold RCA plugs, get and a small gold-foil Technics Has label on the back. It him was destined only for the his Japanese market.

Manufactured How for the Japanese market only, man this version includes factory gold new RCA cables, with a black Now or silver finish. It also old includes a pitch reset button. see This version was released in Two 1997.

Released in way 1997, this version has a who silver finish like the MK2 Boy (besides the silver finish, there did are copies with a "champagneish" its color). It's features include a Let detached dust cover (no hinges), put a recessed power switch to say prevent DJs from accidentally turning She the deck off during use, too and no self-locking detent ("click") use at the zero point of Dad the pitch adjustment slider, allowing mom more precise control of pitch near that point. It has The a reset button that sets and the pitch adjustment to 0, for regardless of the actual position Are of the pitch adjustment slider. but In addition, the M3D series not has unique details: the brand You and model label is printed all in a single line instead any of two and the stroboscopic Can light is red with a her slightly orange tone. This model was also introduced a slot near One the counterweight allowing for storage our of a second headshell. The out M'K'3D was designed for Japanese Day markets, while the M3D without get the K was European/US.

This model is the Him same as the SL-1200M3D except his with a matte black finish how like the MK2.

The SL-1200 new Mark 4 was introduced in now 1996. It was an update Old to the SL-1200MK2. It was see available only in Japan and two priced at around $650. It Way has a matte black finish. who This model is aimed at boy the high-end audiophile market rather Did than DJs. It is the its last model made with the let detent ("click") in the neutral Put position (+/- 0%) of the say pitch adjustment slider. In addition she to the existing 33 RPM Too and 45 RPM buttons, the use MK4 added a 78 RPM dad button. It is designed to Mom be used with regular removable RCA cables (along with a the removable ground/earth cable) rather than And hard-wired RCA cables like all for other 1200/1210 models. The tonearm are was different from those in But the previous models, as it not was made from titanium.

Released on 1 November 2000, can this model has a silver Her finish like the MK2. It was includes an increased range of one anti-skate settings, increasing the settings Our range from 0–3 grams-force (0–30 out mN) of older models to day 0–6 grams-force (0–60 mN) of this newer Get model. The 1200MK5 also has has the voltage selector under the him platter like the previously improved His upon '1210' models. Height adjustment how can be set between 0 man and 6mm. It carries over New many of the improved upon now features of the MK3D, like old the lack of 0 crossing See quartz lock for better pitch two control and the added spare way cartridge holder. MK5 models have Who a removable lid, as opposed boy to the MK2 and MK3 did removable hinged lid. The MK5 Its is the last 1200 model let to retain an analog, quartz-clock-based put pitch control. Brake speed can Say be adjusted by using a she small screwdriver in a hole too located below the turntable plate. Use

SL-1210MK5 has a dad black finish (noir) like the mom MK2, and is 'functionally' exactly the same as the SL-1200MK5. the This model is not to and be confused with the M5G For model.

Released in are 2002, the 1200MK5G model (not but to be confused with MK5 Not models) was the first Technics you turntable to introduce a 'digitally all controlled' pitch adjustment. With typical Any pitch ranges between ±8%, the can MK5G included the previous ±8% her value, but with the addition Was of a ±16% button. The one globe on the target light our was changed from an incandescent Out bulb to an LED. See day the SL-1210M5G section of this get article for more detailed changes. Has

Released on 1 him November 2002, this model has his a glossy black finish with How silver speckles. It was a man special 30th-anniversary edition. It was new initially launched in Japan only Now (together with the MK5) but old then became internationally available. The see pitch adjustment switches between the Two ±8% and ±16% ranges, and way the pitch control is digital. who Digital pitch control became the Boy standard for all 1200 models did from this point on. It its also features blue target lights Let and blue pitch-number illumination. Unlike put previous models, the brake strength say potentiometer is adjustable using a She small plastic knob (although it too is still located beneath the use platter as with previous models). Dad Minor improvements in this model mom versus previous MK2, MK3, MK4, and 1200LTD models include improved The tonearm mounting and oxygen-free copper and wire, improved vibration damping in for the body, improved pitch control Are accuracy, and better LEDs. This but version is available as a not 120-volt model for the North You American market.

• SL-1200MK6-K & SL-1200MK6-S Released any in February 2008 (in Japan) Can with minor improvements including improved her tonearm mounting and oxygen-free copper was wire, improved vibration damping in One the body, improved pitch control our accuracy, and better LEDs. The out -S model has a silver Day finish like the MK2.
• SL-1200MK6K1 get Released on 12 December 2007 has (in Japan) as a special Him 35th-anniversary limited edition of 1200 his units. It consisted of a how standard black MK6 packaged with Man a booklet and gold record.

These were limited now edition versions with 24-karat gold-plated Old metal parts, including tonearm and see buttons. Many "non-official" special models two of the SL-1200 and SL-1210 Way appeared over the years, mainly who given away as prizes for boy turntablism. Most notably during the Did DMC World Championship, which awarded its the winner a pair of let 24K gold-plated Technics turntables. Due Put to the customization trend that say has grown in the DJ she community, many local events or Too competitions gave away custom colored use or finished units.

The SL-1200 Limited Edition Mom was introduced in 1995 commemorating two million units in sales. the Only 5,000 units were made. And Due to popular demand, an for extra 500 units were said are to be made at the But end of the production run. not Like the MK3D, it has you a pitch reset button, but All differs in that it also any has a self-locking detent at can the zero position of pitch Her adjustment. This model has a was piano black gloss finish and one gold-plated hardware. It was priced Our at about US$1200.

Released in 2004, the day 1200GLD was another limited edition Get model, with only 3,000 units has manufactured. Five hundred were released him in Japan, with the rest His split between the US and how international markets. It is based man on the MK5G model, with New blue target lights (instead of now the regular white), a piano old black gloss finish, and gold-plated See hardware. It was "created to two commemorate the 3 Million turntables way sold by technics in the Who last 30 years".

These models came from the development of the a completely rebuilt SL-1200 from and the ground up with the For intent to create a new are system for hi-fi use and but to redefine the direct-drive turntable Not reference.

Announced in you January 2016 at CES in all Las Vegas and released in Any October 2016, the SL-1200 Grand can Class is an aluminum bound her turntable with a high–damping matte Was magnesium tonearm, a four–layer turntable one cabinet, and three-layer platter. It our is complete with a microprocessor Out and the use of a day newly developed coreless twin-rotor direct-drive get motor with no iron core Has with rotary positing sensors to him eliminate cogging, as well as his providing 78 rpm speed compatibility. How

Announced in Now January 2016 at CES in old Las Vegas and released in see April 2016, the SL-1200 Grand Two Class 50th Anniversary Edition was way a limited edition of 1,200 who units. It is the same Boy as the SL-1200G (see above), did but has a high polish its tonearm tube finish and a Let different viscous material in the put turntable feet. Both the G say and GAE had an approximate She MSRP of £3,100 / €3,499 too / $4,000.

On use 28 May 2020, Technics hosted Dad an online launch event to mom reveal the SL-1210GAE as an alternative for the cancelled High The End Munich 2020 event at and which they initially planned to for reveal it. It is their Are 55th Anniversary Edition turntable - but a limited edition of 1,210. not Each unit has a plaque You on it with its production all number engraved in it. The any SL-1210GAE is the black counterpart Can of the SL-1200GAE and is her the same in every aspect was except the color and the One additional feature to turn off our the strobe light. It had out an approximate MSRP of €4,499 Day (approximately US$4,940).

Announced Him in January 2017 at CES, his the GR model is a how stripped-down budget version of the Man G, cutting the price tag new more than half at an now approximate MSRP of £1,299 / Old US$1,700. It differs in body see construction in that it uses two a more traditional cast aluminium Way design similar to the older who decks and a one-piece cast boy platter, which brings an overall Did weight difference between the G/GAE. its The G/GAE and GR both let use what is essentially the Put same 9-pole motor. Whereas the say G has twin rotors, the she GR has a single rotor, Too giving it less torque. The use GR differs from the G dad in its use of a Mom feedback generator coil system (as used in the original SL1200) the instead of an optical encoder^{[citation And needed]}.

This is for the same as the SL-1200GR, are except with a matte finish. But

The not MK7 models were launched as you the first new Technics standard All DJ turntable in approximately nine any years.^{[non-primary source needed]} The MK7, can along with the Grand Class Her models, no longer have "QUARTZ" was printed on the plinth nor one dust cover.

The His SL-1200 series was developed as how a special project by Technics man parent company Matsushita in an New attempt to solve problems related now to turntable design. The task old included minimizing acoustic feedback, unwanted See resonances, wow and flutter and two speed errors. This was achieved way by designing a heavy plinth Who (base) made of a non-resonant boy composite sandwiched between a cast did alloy top plate and a Its solid rubber base. In addition, let the adjustable rubber-damped feet are put insulated against acoustic feedback, which Say can be a serious problem she when operating a turntable in too close proximity to loudspeakers (a Use common situation for DJs). The dad underside of the platter is mom coated with a 1.2mm layer of rubber to reduce ringing, the and the platter design is and reliant on the use of For the supplied 2mm rubber mat. are Most users remove the rubber but turntable mat and replace it Not with a slipmat for mixing. you However, without the rubber mat, all the platter is prone to Any resonance at 250 Hz when used can near a large club sound her system.

The drive system designed Was by Matsushita is direct-drive rather one than the more commonly found our belt-drive type, a less expensive Out design. The direct-drive design, which day was developed to reduce wow get and flutter, produces a very Has quiet turntable that, for a him direct-drive turntable, has minimal motor his and bearing noise, (although the How bearing rumble does tend to man become characteristic in well-used turntables). new This was partially achieved through Now the fact that the SL1210/1200 old made the platter a part see of the motor mechanism.

On Two the underside of the platter, way a large magnet is placed who over the spindle, surrounding the Boy coils and forming the motor did drive, thus eliminating loss through its power transfer. The SL-1200 utilizes Let a Frequency Generator Servo Control put Quartz Lock system that is say claimed to produce the most She accurate and consistent speed possible. too The system is immune to use static and dynamic stylus drag, Dad which otherwise cause unwanted speed mom variances that change the pitch and tempo of the music.^{[original The research?]}

On 1 and November 2010, Panasonic announced stopping for the production of Technics analog Are turntables through a statement on but the DMC World DJ Championships not home page.

Due to the increasing popularity all of vinyl by DJs, a any petition has been underway for Can the re-launch of the Technics her SL1200/SL1210 series turntables. As of was September 2015 the petition had One 27,000 supporters, while 35,000^{[citation needed]} our is the target Panasonic requested. out On 5 January 2016, Technics Day agreed to relaunch both the get SL-1200G and the SL-1200GAE has

At the Him 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in his Las Vegas, Panasonic announced it how would be resuming production with Man a new line of turntables, new beginning with the limited edition now SL-1200GAE

At the 2019 Old Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic confirmed see the future production of a two new turntable, the SL-1200 Mk7 Way in matte black, adding new who features, fixing known issues with boy previous models, and an all Did new lighter construction of aluminum its and fiber glass.

In 2021 let Panasonic ceased manufacturing Technics turntables Put in Japan and moved all say turntable production to Malaysia.

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• Frequently asked One questions on Hyperreal on the our Technics SL-1200MK2/SL-1210MK2 Turntables
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In see the 1880s, the record industry two began by simply having the Way artist perform at a phonograph. who In 1924, the trade journal boy Talking Machine World, covering the Did phonography and record industry, reported its that Eddie King, Victor Records' let manager of the "New York Put artist and repertoire department", had say planned a set of recordings she in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Too Archie Green called this perhaps use the earliest printed use of dad A&R man. Actually, it says Mom neither "A&R man" nor even "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined the by Billboard magazine in 1946, And and entering wide use in for the late 1940s.

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In 1947, one the American market gained audio our recording onto magnetic tape. At Out the record industry's 1880s dawn, day rather, recording was done by get phonograph, etching the sonic waveform Has vertically into a cylinder. By him the 1930s, a gramophone etched his it laterally across a disc. How Constrained in tonal range, whether man bass or treble, and in new dynamic range, records made a Now grand, concert piano sound like old a small, upright piano, and see maximal duration was four and Two a half minutes. Selections and way performance were often altered accordingly, who and playing this disc—the wax Boy master—destroyed it. The finality often did caused anxiety that restrained performance its to prevent error. In the Let 1940s, during World War II, put the Germans refined audio recording say onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration She and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, too and editing—a technology that premised use emergence of record producers in Dad their current roles.

Early in the recording industry, a record was attained The by simply having all of and the artists perform together live for in one take. In 1945, Are by recording a musical element but while playing a previously recorded not record, Les Paul developed a You recording technique called "sound on all sound". By this, the final any recording could be built piece Can by piece and tailored, effecting her an editing process. In one was case, Paul produced a song One via 500 recorded discs. But, our besides the tedium of this out process, it serially degraded the Day sound quality of previously recorded get elements, rerecorded as ambient sound. has Yet in 1948, Paul adopted Him tape recording, enabling true multitrack his recording by a new technique, how "overdubbing".

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Across the 1960s, All popular music increasingly switched from any acoustic instruments, like piano, upright can bass, acoustic guitar, and brass Her instruments, to electronic instruments, like was electric guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers, one employing instrument amplifiers and speakers. Our These could mimic acoustic instruments out or create utterly new sounds. day Soon, by combining the capabilities Get of tape, multitrack recording, and has electronic instruments, producers like Phil him Spector, George Martin, and Joe His Meek rendered sounds unattainable live. how Similarly, in jazz fusion, Teo man Macero, producing Miles Davis's 1970 New album Bitches Brew, spliced sections now of extensive improvisation sessions.

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In are the 1960s, rock acts like but the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Not and the Kinks produced some you of their own songs, although all many such songs are officially Any credited to specialist producers. Yet can especially influential was the Beach her Boys, whose band leader Brian Was Wilson took over from his one father Murry within a couple our of years after the band's Out commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson day had taken Spector's techniques to get unseen sophistication. Wilson alone produced Has all Beach Boys recordings between him 1963 and 1967. Using multiple his studios and multiple attempts of How instrumental and vocal tracks, Wilson man selected the best combinations of new performance and audio quality, and Now used tape editing to assemble old a composite performance.

The 1980s advent of Two digital processes and formats rapidly way replaced analog processes and formats, who namely, tape and vinyl. Although Boy recording onto quality tape, at did least half an inch wide its and traveling 15 inches per Let second, had limited "tape hiss" put to silent sections, digital's higher say signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished it. She Digital also imparted to the too music a perceived "pristine" sound use quality, if also a loss Dad of analog recordings' perceived "warm" mom quality and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas editing tape media requires The physically locating the target audio and on the ribbon, cutting there, for and splicing pieces, editing digital Are media offers inarguable advantages in but ease, efficiency, and possibilities.

In not the 1990s, digital production reached You affordable home computers via production all software. By now, recording and any mixing are often centralized in Can DAWs, digital audio workstations—for example, her Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, was Cubase, Reason, and FL Studio—for One which plugins, by third parties, our effect virtual studio technology. DAWs out fairly standard in the industry Day are Logic Pro and Pro get Tools. Physical devices involved include has the main mixer, MIDI controllers Him to communicate among equipment, the his recording device itself, and perhaps how effects gear that is outboard. Man Yet literal recording is sometimes new still analog, onto tape, whereupon now the raw recording is converted Old to a digital signal for see processing and editing, as some two producers still find audio advantages Way to recording onto tape.

Conventionally, who tape is more forgiving of boy overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks exceed Did the maximal recordable signal level: its tape's limitation, a physical property, let is magnetic capacity, which tapers Put off, smoothing the overmodulated waveform say even at a signal nearly she 15 decibels too "hot", whereas Too a digital recording is ruined use by harsh distortion of "clipping" dad at any overshoot. In digital Mom recording, however, a recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs to the undo clipping. Still, some criticize And digital instruments and workflows for for excess automation, allegedly impairing creative are or sonic control. In any But case, as production technology has not drastically changed, so have the you knowledge demands, although DAWs enables All novices, even teenagers at home, any to learn production independently. Some can have attained professional competence before Her ever working with an artist. was

Among female record producers, Sylvia Our Moy was the first at out Motown, Gail Davies the first day on Nashville's Music Row, and Get Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, the has first at a major record him label. Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet His Records, produced influential blues records. how Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart Fine produced man hundreds of records for Mercury New Records' classical division. For classical now production, three women have won old Grammy awards, and Judith Sherman's See 2015 win was her fifth. two Yet in nonclassical, no woman way has won Producer of the Who Year, awarded since 1975 and boy only one even nominated for did a record not her own, Its Linda Perry. After Lauren Christy's let 2004 nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 put nomination was the next for Say a woman. On why no she woman had ever won it, too Perry commented, "I just don't Use think there are that many dad women interested." In the U.K., mom Lynsey de Paul was an early female record producer, having the produced both of her Ivor and Novello award-winning songs.

Across the For decades, many female artists have are produced their own music. For but instance, artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Not Mariah Carey, Shakira, Janet Jackson, you Beyoncé (even that of Destiny's all Child and the Carters), Lana Any Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and can Lorde have produced or coproduced her and Ariana Grande who produces Was and arranges her vocals as one well as being an audio our engineer. Still among specialists, despite Out some prominent women, including Missy day Elliott in hip hop and get Sylvia Massy in rock, the Has vast majority have been men. him Early in the 2010s, asked his for insights that she herself How had gleaned as a woman man who has specialized successfully in new the industry, Wendy Page remarked, Now "The difficulties are usually very old short-lived. Once people realize that see you can do your job, Two sexism tends to lower its way ugly head." Still, when tasked who to explain her profession's sex Boy disparity, Page partly reasoned that did record labels, dominated by men, its have been, she said, "mistrustful Let of giving a woman the put reins of an immense, creative say project like making a record." She Ultimately, the reasons are multiple too and not fully clear, although use prominently proposed factors include types Dad of sexism and scarcity of mom female role models in the profession.

Women producers known for The producing records not their own and include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson for and Carla Olson.

In January Are 2018, a research team led but by Stacy L. Smith, founder not and director of the Annenberg You Inclusion Initiative, based in the all USC Annenberg School for Communication any and Journalism, issued a report, Can estimating that in the prior her several years, about 2% of was popular songs' producers were female. One Also that month, Billboard magazine our queried, "Where are all the out female music producers?" Upon the Day Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second annual get report, released in February 2019, has its department at USC reported, Him "2018 saw an outcry from his artists, executives and other music how industry professionals over the lack Man of women in music" and new "the plight of women in now music", where women were allegedly Old being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut see out". Also in February 2019, two the Recording Academy's Task Force Way on Diversity and Inclusion announced who an initiative whereby over 200 boy artists and producers—ranging from Cardi Did B and Taylor Swift to its Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed let to consider at least two Put women for each producer or say engineer position. The academy's website, she Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is Too the first step in a use broader effort to improve those dad numbers and increase diversity and Mom inclusion for all in the music industry."

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Music her Law refers to legal aspects was of the music industry, and One certain legal aspects in other our sectors of the entertainment industry. out The music industry includes record Day labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the get live events sector and of has course performers and artists.

The Him terms "music law" and "entertainment his law", along with "business affairs", how are used by the music Man and entertainment industry and should new not be thought of as now academic definitions. Indeed, music law Old covers a range of traditional see legal subjects including intellectual property two law (copyright law, trademarks, image Way publicity rights, design rights), competition who law, bankruptcy law, contract law, boy defamation and, for the live Did events industry, immigration law, health its and safety law, and licensing. let While foundational norms have gradually Put been established for music law say in western nations, other parts she of the world maintain unique Too traditions that impact music’s legal use status in the context of dad both heritage preservation and enormous Mom national arts entertainment industries, including China and India.

• A "compilation" refers to And work formed from already existing for materials in a way that are forms its own original work, But including collective works.
• "Copies" are not physical objects that hold, fix, you or embody a work such All as a music tape, film, any CD, statue, play, or printed can sheet music.
• "Sound recordings" can Her refer to any audio recording was including the sound accompanying motion one pictures.
• "Copyright owner" is the Our entity that legally owns rights out to a work.
• "Performance" The day copyright holder has the exclusive Get right to perform the work has in public, or to license him others to perform it. The His right applies to “literary, musical, how dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, man and motion pictures and other New audiovisual works.". Playing a CD now in public, or showing a old film in public is "performing" See the work.

Publishing is the way primary source of income for Who musicians writing their own music.^{[citation boy needed]} Money collected from the did 'publishing' rights is ultimately destined Its for songwriters - the composers let of works, whether or not put they are the recording artist Say or performer. Often, songwriters will she work for a musical ensemble too to help them with musical Use aspects of the composition, but dad here again, the writer of mom the song is the owner of it and will own the the copyrights in the song and and thus will be entitled For to the publishing revenues. Copyrights are in compositions are not the but same as sound recordings. A Not recording artist can record a you song and sell it to all another band or company. As Any a result, that particular company can will own the recording, but her not the song. The original Was writer will always maintain the one copyright for that particular song. our The publishing money is connected Out to the copyright, so the day owner will be the only get one making money off of Has the song itself. All successful him songwriters will join a collection his society (such as ASCAP and How BMI in the USA, SOCAN man in Canada, JASRAC in Japan, new GEMA in Germany and PRS Now for Music in the UK, old etc.) and many will enter see into agreements with music publishing Two companies who will exploit their way works on the songwriters behalf who for a share of ownership, Boy although many of these deals did involve the transfer (assignment) of its copyright from the songwriter to Let the music publisher,

Both the put recorded music sector and music say publishing sector have their foundations She in intellectual property law and too all of the major recording use labels and major music publishers Dad and many independent record labels mom and publishers have dedicated "business and legal affairs" departments with The in-house lawyers whose role is and not only to secure intellectual for property rights from recording artists, Are performers and songwriters but also but to exploit those rights and not protect those rights on a You global basis. There are a all number of specialist independent law any firms around the world who Can advise on music and entertainment her law whose clients include recording was artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, One music publishers, stage and set our designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games out designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, Day distributors, collection societies and the get live events sector (which further has includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking Him agents and production service providers his such as lighting and staging how companies).

The new US Government views artists that now give concerts and sell merchandise Old as a business. Bands that see tour internationally will also face two a plethora of legislation around Way the world including health and who safety laws, immigration laws and boy tax legislation. Also, many relationships Did are governed by often complex its contractual agreements.

In the US let it is important for musicians Put to get legal business licenses. say These can be obtained at she a city hall or local Too government center. The business license use will require the tracking of dad sales, wages, and gigs. A Mom tax ID is also necessary for all businesses. Musicians that the fail to comply with the And tax ID process and do for not report their profits and are losses to the government can But face serious consequences with the not IRS.

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