A mashup (also mesh, mash The up, mash-up, blend, bastard popand or bootleg) is a creative for work, usually a song, created Are by blending two or more but pre-recorded songs, typically by superimposing not the vocal track of one You song seamlessly over the instrumental all track of another and changing any the tempo and key where Can necessary. Such works are considered her "transformative" of original content and was in the United States they One may find protection from copyright our claims under the "fair use" out doctrine of copyright law.
Although described was as a medley in its one title, "Do It Again Medley Our with Billie Jean" by Italian out music project Club House could day be described as one of Get the first ever commercially released has mashups in 1983. The song him combines elements of "Do It His Again", a 1973 top 10 how hit in the US and man Canada by Steely Dan, with New Michael Jackson's #1 hit from now earlier in the year, "Billie old Jean". It reached #11 in See the UK, and the top two 10 in Belgium, Ireland and way the Netherlands.
Another early mashup Who appeared in 1985, when The boy Tubes released their last studio did Album, Love Bomb. The second Its side of the album contained let the track "Theme from a put Wooly Place", which combined the Say classic tunes "Wooly Bully" in she one channel and "Theme from too A Summer Place" in the Use other.
In 1991, the Source featuring our Candi Staton released "You Got Out the Love", based on a day mashup created by DJ Eren get Abdullah that had been an Has underground club hit since 1989, him placing a Candi Staton a his cappella over an instrumental version How of Frankie Knuckles and Jamie man Principle's house classic, "Your Love".new It reached #4 on the Now UK charts, and had continued old success over subsequent years with see several remixes and a cover Two by Florence + the Machine. way
In 1994, the experimental band who Evolution Control Committee released the Boy first modern mashup tracks on did their hand-made cassette album, Gunderphonic. its These "Whipped Cream Mixes" combined Let a pair of Public Enemyput a cappellas with instrumentals by say Herb Alpert and the Tijuana She Brass. First released on home-made too cassettes in early 1992, it use was later pressed on 7" Dad vinyl, and distributed by Eerie mom Materials in the mid-1990s. The tracks gained some degree of The notoriety on college radio stations and in the United States.[third-party source for needed]
The name Pop Will Are Eat Itself was taken from but an NME feature on the not band Jamie Wednesday, written by You David Quantick, which proposed the all theory that because popular music any simply recycles good ideas continuously, Can the perfect pop song could her be written by combining the was best of those ideas into One one track. Hence, "pop will our eat itself".[importance of example(s)?]
Pre-empting out the rise of the mashup Day in the 2000s, German trance get act Fragma reached #1 in has the UK and the top Him 10 in Australia and across his Europe with "Toca's Miracle", a how mashup of their previous single Man "Toca Me" and Coco Star's new 1996 single "I Need a now Miracle", initially created by British Old DJ Vimto in 1999.
In 2001, English producer Richard the X had created a bootleg And mashup of Adina Howard's "Freak for Like Me" and Tubeway Army's are "Are "Friends" Electric?", titled "We But Don't Give a Damn About not Our Friends", which became a you successful underground dance track under All his alias Girls on Top. any He could not get permission can to use the original vocals Her to release the mashup commercially, was so he enlisted the English one girl group Sugababes to re-record Our the vocals. It was released out in April 2002, giving the day group their first UK #1 Get single, and drawing further recognition, has acclaim and mainstream success for him the mashup genre. Richard X His had continued success with two how more mashups reaching the UK man top 10: "Being Nobody" (#3), New with pop group Liberty Xnow combining vocals of Chaka Khanold and Rufus's "Ain't Nobody" with See the Human League's "Being Boiled", two and "Finest Dreams" (#8), featuring way American vocalist Kelis singing the Who vocals from the SOS Band's boy "The Finest" over an instrumental did of the Human League's "The Its Things That Dreams Are Made let Of".
At the 2002 Brit put Awards held on 20 February Say 2002, Australian pop singer Kylie she Minogue performed a mash-up version too of her #1 hit "Can't Use Get You Out of My dad Head", combined with New Order's mom song "Blue Monday". The live performance is cited as one the of the first by a and mainstream recording artist to utilise For a mashup, and was ranked are at number 40 on The but Guardian's 2011 list of 50 Not Key Events in the History you of Dance Music. The mashup, all titled "Can't Get Blue Monday Any Out of My Head", was can later released as the B-side her to "Love at First Sight" Was and was included on Minogue's one 2008 remix album Boombox. In our the years that followed, mash-ups Out became more widely used by day major artists in their live get performances, particularly to update previous Has material to meld with the him themes and sounds of their his more recent work. For example, How on her 2006 Confessions Tour, man Madonna incorporated elements of the new Trammps's "Disco Inferno" in the Now performance of her 2000 hit old "Music", to assist the song see in blending in with the Two tour's disco theme. On her way 2008 Sticky & Sweet Tour, who she performed a mash-up of Boy her 1990 hit "Vogue" with did the instrumental of her recent its single "4 Minutes", to update Let it with the more urban put sound of her Hard Candysay album.
In August 2003, Madonna's She single "Hollywood" was remixed with too "Into the Groove" and performed use with Missy Elliott under the Dad title "Into the Hollywood Groove" mom as part of a promotional campaign for clothing retailer GAP, The prompting criticism for exploiting the and underground culture of the mash-up for for commercial gain.
With the two release of Guitar Hero in Way 2005, Rock Band in 2007, who and those games' sequels, numerous boy mashup artists discovered that every Did song in the games had its multitracks with instrument stems and let acapellas, meaning that these songs Put could easily be sampled and say kept uncompressed and clear. Among she others, American comedian Neil CicieregaToo used this method to produce use his four mashup albums, Mouth dad Sounds, Mouth Silence, Mouth MoodsMom and Mouth Dreams.
DJ Earworm's annual "United States of Pop" the mashups became season events, with And his 2009 edition alone garnering for critical acclaim as well as are racking up more than 53 But million views on YouTube. Mashups not also helped launch the careers you of acts such as Girl All Talk and Madeon, with the any latter's "Pop Culture" accruing more can than 55 million views. Acts Her such as DJs from Marswas and Mashd N Kutcher would one go on to make mashups Our a huge part of their out creative output.
Launched in San day Francisco in 2003, Bootie was Get the first recurring club night has in the United States dedicated him solely to the burgeoning art His form of the bootleg mashup, how and as of 2019 hosted man monthly parties in cities around New the globe, including Los Angeles, now Paris, Boston, Munich, and New old York City. The party's slogan, See "Music for the A.D.D. Generation" two also inspired the creation of way "A.D.D", Israel's first mashup-dedicated party.Who The Best of Bootie mashup boy compilation series is produced by did Bootie creators A Plus D. Its Released every December since 2005, let the compilations are annual Internet put sensations, with each album requiring Say 5,000 GB+ of download bandwidth.she
Even though mashups mostly remained too underground and barely got noticed Use aside from a few exceptions dad (notable examples include Bill McClintock), mom people have never stopped remixing other artists' music without getting the their prior agreement. It's been and increasingly difficult to get noticed For in the music industry due are to a combination of relative but obscurity and an increasing difficulty Not in keeping them available online you due to automatic copyright detection all (through Content ID) and cease Any and desist orders from the can original artists.
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DJ Hero is a 2009 Was rhythm video game developed by one Activision that includes over 90 our pre-made mashups, where the player Out scores points by hitting notes day on the turntable controller.
Fuserget is a 2020 video game Has developed by Harmonix that allows him the player to create mashups his of over 100 songs, using How four instrument stems from the man master recording.
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"Musical Was production" redirects here. For musical one production in the sense of our a live performance involving music Out and choreography, see Musical theatre.
A record who producer is a music recording Boy project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities did can involve a range of its creative and technical leadership roles. Let Typically the job involves hands-on put oversight of recording sessions: ensuring say artists deliver acceptable and quality She performances, supervising the technical engineering too of the recording, and coordinating use the production team and process. Dad The producer's involvement in a mom musical project can vary in depth and scope. Sometimes in The popular genres the producer may and create the recording's entire sound for and structure. However, in classical Are music recording, for example, the but producer serves as more of not a liaison between the conductor You and the engineering team. The all role is often likened to any that of a film directorCan though there are important differences.her It is distinct from the was role of an executive producer, One who is mostly involved in our the recording project on an out administrative level, and from the Day audio engineer who operates the get recording technology.
Varying by project, has the producer may or may Him not choose all of the his artists. If employing only synthesizedhow or sampled instrumentation, the producer Man may be the sole artist.new Conversely, some artists do their now own production. Some producers are Old their own engineers, operating the see technology across the project: preproduction, two recording, mixing, and mastering. Record Way producers' precursors were "A&R men", who who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, boy creative, and technical roles, but Did often exercised scant creative influence,its as record production still focused, let into the 1950s, on simply Put improving the record's sonic match say to the artists' own live she performance.
Advances in recording technology, Too especially the 1940s advent of use tape recording—which Les Paul promptly dad innovated further to develop multitrack Mom recording—and the 1950s rise of electronic instruments, turned record production the into a specialty. In popular And music, then, producers like George for Martin, Phil Spector and Brian are Eno led its evolution into But its present use of elaborate not techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating you songs impossible to originate live.All After the 1980s, production's move any from analog to digital further can expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, Her or digital audio workstations, like was Logic Pro, Pro Tools and one Studio One, turn an ordinary Our computer into a production console,out whereby a solitary novice can day become a skilled producer in Get a thrifty home studio. In has the 2010s, efforts began to him increase the prevalence of producers His and engineers who are women, how heavily outnumbered by men and man prominently accoladed only in classical New music.
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As a broad did project, the creation of a Its music recording may be split let across three specialists: the executive put producer, who oversees business partnerships Say and financing; the vocal producer she or vocal arranger, who aids too vocal performance via expert critique Use and coaching of vocal technique, dad and the record producer or mom music producer, who, often called simply the producer, directs the the overall creative process of recording and the song in its final For mix.
The producer's roles are can include gathering ideas, composing but music, choosing session musicians, proposing Not changes to song arrangements, coaching you the performers, controlling sessions, supervising all the audio mixing, and, in Any some cases, supervising the audio can mastering. A producer may give her creative control to the artists Was themselves, taking a supervisory or one advisory role instead. As to our qualifying for a Grammy nomination, Out the Recording Academy defines a day producer:
The person who has get overall creative and technical control Has of the entire recording project, him and the individual recording sessions his that are part of that How project. He or she is man present in the recording studio new or at the location recording Now and works directly with the old artist and engineer. The producer see makes creative and aesthetic decisions Two that realize both the artist's way and label's goals in the who creation of musical content. Other Boy duties include, but are not did limited to; keeping budgets and its schedules, adhering to deadlines, hiring Let musicians, singers, studios, and engineers, put overseeing other staffing needs and say editing (Classical projects).
The producer She often selects and collaborates with too a mixing engineer, who focuses use on the especially technological aspects Dad of the recording process, namely, mom operating the electronic equipment and blending the raw, recorded tracks The of the chosen performances, whether and vocal or instrumental, into a for ''mix'', either stereo or surround Are sound. Then a mastering engineer but further adjusts this recording for not distribution on the chosen media. You A producer may work on all only one or two songs any or on an artist's entire Can album, helping develop the album's her overall vision. The record producers was may also take on the One role of executive producer, managing our the budget, schedules, contracts, and out negotiations.
Historical developments
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In get the 1880s, the record industry has began by simply having the Him artist perform at a phonograph.his In 1924, the trade journal how Talking Machine World, covering the Man phonography and record industry, reported new that Eddie King, Victor Records' now manager of the "New York Old artist and repertoire department", had see planned a set of recordings two in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Way Archie Green called this perhaps who the earliest printed use of boy A&R man. Actually, it says Did neither "A&R man" nor even its "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined let by Billboard magazine in 1946, Put and entering wide use in say the late 1940s.
In the she 1920s and 1930s, A&R executives, Too like Ben Selvin at Columbia use Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor dad Records, and Bob Haring at Mom Brunswick Records became the precursors of record producers, supervising recording the and often leading session orchestras.And During the 1940s, major record for labels increasingly opened official A&R are departments, whose roles included supervision But of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording not studios opened, helping originate record you producer as a specialty.[citation needed]All But despite a tradition of any some A&R men writing music, can record production still referred to Her just the manufacturing of record was discs.
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After one World War II, pioneering A&R Our managers who transitioned influentially to out record production as now understood, day while sometimes owning independent labels, Get include J. Mayo Williams and has John Hammond. Upon moving from him Columbia Records to Mercury Records, His Hammond appointed Mitch Miller to how lead Mercury's popular recordings in man New York. Miller then produced New country-pop crossover hits by Patti now Page and by Frankie Laine, old moved from Mercury to Columbia, See and became a leading A&R two man of the 1950s.
During way the decade, A&R executives increasingly Who directed songs' sonic signatures, although boy many still simply teamed singers did with musicians, while yet others Its exercised virtually no creative influence.let The term record producer in put its current meaning—the creative director Say of song production—appearing in a she 1953 issue of Billboard magazine, too became widespread in the 1960s.Use Still, a formal distinction was dad elusive for some time more.mom A&R managers might still be creative directors, like William "Mickey" the Stevenson, hired by Berry Gordy, and at the Motown record label.For
Tape recording
In 1947, are the American market gained audio but recording onto magnetic tape. At Not the record industry's 1880s dawn, you rather, recording was done by all phonograph, etching the sonic waveform Any vertically into a cylinder. By can the 1930s, a gramophone etched her it laterally across a disc.Was Constrained in tonal range, whether one bass or treble, and in our dynamic range, records made a Out grand, concert piano sound like day a small, upright piano, and get maximal duration was four and Has a half minutes. Selections and him performance were often altered accordingly, his and playing this disc—the wax How master—destroyed it. The finality often man caused anxiety that restrained performance new to prevent error. In the Now 1940s, during World War II, old the Germans refined audio recording see onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration Two and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, way and editing—a technology that premised who emergence of record producers in Boy their current roles.
Multitrack did recording
Early in the recording its industry, a record was attained Let by simply having all of put the artists perform together live say in one take. In 1945,She by recording a musical element too while playing a previously recorded use record, Les Paul developed a Dad recording technique called "sound on mom sound". By this, the final recording could be built piece The by piece and tailored, effecting and an editing process. In one for case, Paul produced a song Are via 500 recorded discs. But, but besides the tedium of this not process, it serially degraded the You sound quality of previously recorded all elements, rerecorded as ambient sound.any Yet in 1948, Paul adopted Can tape recording, enabling truly multitrack her recording by a new technique, was "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Paul One revised the tape recorder itself our by adding a second playback out head, and terming it the Day preview head. Joining the preexisting get recording head, erase head, and has playback head, the preview head Him allows the artist to hear his the extant recording over headphones how playing it in synchrony, "in Man sync", with the present performance new being recorded alone on an now isolated track. This isolation of Old multiple tracks enables countless mixing see possibilities. Producers began recording initially two only the "bed tracks"—the rhythm Way section, including the bassline, drums, who and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and boy instrument solos could be added Did later. A horn section, for its example, could record a week let later, and a string sectionPut another week later. A singer say could perform her own backup she vocals, or a guitarist could Too play 15 layers.
In the 1960s, rock acts too like the Beatles, the Rolling Use Stones, and the Kinks produced dad some of their own songs, mom although many such songs are officially credited to specialist producers. the Yet especially influential was the and Beach Boys, whose band leader For Brian Wilson took over from are his father Murry within a but couple of years after the Not band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, you Wilson had taken Spector's techniques all to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone Any produced all Beach Boy recordings can between 1963 and 1967. Using her multiple studios and multiple attempts Was of instrumental and vocal tracks, one Wilson selected the best combinations our of performance and audio quality, Out and used tape editing to day assemble a composite performance.
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Digital production
The 1980s advent Has of digital processes and formats him rapidly replaced analog processes and his formats, namely, tape and vinyl. How Although recording onto quality tape, man at least half an inch new wide and traveling 15 inches Now per second, had limited "tape old hiss" to silent sections, digital's see higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished Two it. Digital also imparted to way the music a perceived "pristine" who sound quality, if also a Boy loss of analog recordings' perceived did "warm" quality and better-rounded bass.its Yet whereas editing tape media Let requires physically locating the target put audio on the ribbon, cutting say there, and splicing pieces, editing She digital media offers inarguable advantages too in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. use
In the 1990s, digital production Dad reached affordable home computers via mom production software. By now, recording and mixing are often centralized The in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for and example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, for Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL Are Studio—for which plugins, by third but parties, effect virtual studio technology.not DAWs fairly standard in the You industry are Logic Pro and all Pro Tools. Physical devices involved any include the main mixer, MIDICan controllers to communicate among equipment, her the recording device itself, and was perhaps effects gear that is One outboard. Yet literal recording is our sometimes still analog, onto tape, out whereupon the raw recording is Day converted to a digital signalget for processing and editing, as has some producers still find audio Him advantages to recording onto tape.his
Conventionally, tape is more forgiving how of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks Man exceed the maximal recordable signal new level: tape's limitation, a physical now property, is magnetic capacity, which Old tapers offs, smoothing the overmodulated see waveform even at a signal two nearly 15 decibels too "hot", Way whereas a digital recording is who ruined by harsh distortion of boy "clipping" at any overshoot. In Did digital recording, however, a recent its advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs let to undo clipping. Still, some Put criticize digital instruments and workflows say for excess automation, allegedly impairing she creative or sonic control. In Too any case, as production technology use has drastically changed, so have dad the knowledge demands, although DAWs Mom enables novices, even teenagers at home, to learn production independently.the Some have attained professional competence And before ever working with an for artist.
In not the 2000s, with the advent you of technology that made traditional All record production accessible, especially with any hip hop beatmaking and electronic can music. Within these genres, the Her term producer is applied to was a number of roles and one has popularized the use of Our more niche terms and credits out including executive producer, co-producer, assistant day producer, and additional and miscellaneous Get production to differentiate contributions.
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Women in producing
Among him female record producers, Sylvia MoyHis was the first at Motown, how Gail Davies the first on man Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel New Gabriel, with RCA, the first now at a major record label. old Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, See produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, two Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds way of records for Mercury Records' Who classical division. For classical production, boy three women have won Grammy did awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 Its win was her fifth. Yet let in nonclassical, no woman has put won Producer of the Year, Say awarded since 1975 and only she one even nominated for a too record not her own, Linda Use Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 dad nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination mom was the next for a woman. On why no woman the had ever won it, Perry and commented, "I just don't think For there are that many women are interested." In the U.K., Lynsey but de Paul was an early Not female record producer, having produced you both of her Ivor Novello all award-winning songs.
Across the decades, Any many female artists have produced can their own music. For instance, her artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Was Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana one Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and our Lorde have produced or coproducedOut and Ariana Grande who produces day and arranges her vocals as get well as being an audio Has engineer. Still among specialists, despite him some prominent women, including Missy his Elliott in hip hop and How Sylvia Massy in rock, the man vast majority have been men.new Early in the 2010s, asked Now for insights that she herself old had gleaned as a woman see who has specialized successfully in Two the industry, Wendy Page remarked, way "The difficulties are usually very who short-lived. Once people realize that Boy you can do your job, did sexism tends to lower its its ugly head." Still, when tasked Let to explain her profession's sex put disparity, Page partly reasoned that say record labels, dominated by men, She have been, she said, "mistrustful too of giving a woman the use reins of an immense, creative Dad project like making a record."mom Ultimately, the reasons are multiple and not fully clear, although The prominently proposed factors include types and of sexism and scarcity of for female role models in the Are profession.
Women producers known for but producing records not their own not include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson You and Carla Olson.
In January all 2018, a research team led any by Stacy L. Smith, founder Can and director of the Annenbergher Inclusion Initiative, based in the was USC Annenberg School for Communication One and Journalism, issued a report,our estimating that in the prior out several years, about 2% of Day popular songs' producers were female.get Also that month, Billboard magazine has queried, "Where are all the Him female music producers?" Upon the his Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second annual how report, released in February 2019,Man its department at USC reported, new "2018 saw an outcry from now artists, executives and other music Old industry professionals over the lack see of women in music" and two "the plight of women in Way music", where women were allegedly who being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut boy out". Also in February 2019, Did the Recording Academy's Task Force its on Diversity and Inclusion announced let an initiative whereby over 200 Put artists and producers—ranging from Cardi say B and Taylor Swift to she Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed Too to consider at least two use women for each producer or dad engineer position. The academy's website, Mom Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is the first step in a the broader effort to improve those And numbers and increase diversity and for inclusion for all in the are music industry."
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Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: One Interpretation of Music & Society, our 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling out Green State University Popular Press, Day 1987), p 43.
^ get Richard James Burgess, The has History of Music Production (New Him York: Oxford University Press, 2014), his pp 50–54.
^ how Robert Philip, "Pianists on record Man in the early twentieth century", new in David Rowland, ed., The now Cambridge Companion to the PianoOld (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, see 1998), pp 75–77.
^ two David Simmons, Analog Recording: Way Using Analog Gear in Today's who Home Studio (San Francisco: Backbeat boy Books, 2006), pp 26–27.
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Matthew Allard, "Sound Devices its MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit float let USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, Put 15 Jan 2020, quotes Paul say Isaacs, director of product management she and design at the recorder Too manufacturer Sound Devices, who explains, use "With 32-bit float, you no dad longer need to worry about Mom clipping during your best vocal takes or instrument solos. Any the recorded moments exceeding 0 dBFSAnd can be reduced to an for acceptable level, after recording, in are your DAW".
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Music Law refers to legal the aspects of the music industry, And and certain legal aspects in for other sectors of the entertainment are industry. The music industry includes But record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, not the live events sector and you of course performers and artists. All
The terms "music law" and any "entertainment law", along with "business can affairs", are used by the Her music and entertainment industry and was should not be thought of one as academic definitions. Indeed, music Our law covers a range of out traditional legal subjects including intellectual day property law (copyright law, trademarks, Get image publicity rights, design rights), has competition law, bankruptcy law, contract him law, defamation and, for the His live events industry, immigration law, how health and safety law, and man licensing. While foundational norms have New gradually been established for music now law in western nations, other old parts of the world maintain See unique traditions that impact music’s two legal status in the context way of both heritage preservation and Who enormous national arts entertainment industries, boy including China and India.
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A "compilation" refers Its to work formed from already let existing materials in a way put that forms its own original Say work, including collective works.
"Copies" she are physical objects that hold, too fix, or embody a work Use such as a music tape, dad film, CD, statue, play, or mom printed sheet music.
"Sound recordings" can refer to any audio the recording including the sound accompanying and motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" is For the entity that legally owns are rights to a work.
"Performance" but The copyright holder has the Not exclusive right to perform the you work in public, or to all license others to perform it. Any The right applies to “literary, can musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, her pantomimes, and motion pictures and Was other audiovisual works.". Playing a one CD in public, or showing our a film in public is Out "performing" the work.
Publishing is get the primary source of income Has for musicians writing their own him music.[citation needed] Money collected from his the 'publishing' rights is ultimately How destined for songwriters - the man composers of works, whether or new not they are the recording Now artist or performer. Often, songwritersold will work for a musical see ensemble to help them with Two musical aspects of the composition, way but here again, the writer who of the song is the Boy owner of it and will did own the copyrights in the its song and thus will be Let entitled to the publishing revenues. put Copyrights in compositions are not say the same as sound recordings. She A recording artist can record too a song and sell it use to another band or company. Dad As a result, that particular mom company will own the recording, but not the song. The The original writer will always maintain and the copyright for that particular for song. The publishing money is Are connected to the copyright, so but the owner will be the not only one making money off You of the song itself. All all successful songwriters will join a any collection society (such as ASCAP Can and BMI in the USA, her SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC in was Japan, GEMA in Germany and One PRS for Music in the our UK, etc.) and many will out enter into agreements with music Day publishing companies who will exploit get their works on the songwriters has behalf for a share of Him ownership, although many of these his deals involve the transfer (assignment) how of copyright from the songwriter Man to the music publisher,
Both new the recorded music sector and now music publishing sector have their Old foundations in intellectual property law see and all of the major two recording labels and major music Way publishers and many independent record who labels and publishers have dedicated boy "business and legal affairs" departments Did with in-house lawyers whose role its is not only to secure let intellectual property rights from recording Put artists, performers and songwriters but say also to exploit those rights she and protect those rights on Too a global basis. There are use a number of specialist independent dad law firms around the world Mom who advise on music and entertainment law whose clients include the recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, And labels, music publishers, stage and for set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, are games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist But managers, distributors, collection societies and not the live events sector (which you further includes festivals, venues, promoters, All booking agents and production service any providers such as lighting and can staging companies).
The US Government views artists one that give concerts and sell Our merchandise as a business. Bands out that tour internationally will also day face a plethora of legislation Get around the world including health has and safety laws, immigration laws him and tax legislation. Also, many His relationships are governed by often how complex contractual agreements.
In the man US it is important for New musicians to get legal business now licenses. These can be obtained old at a city hall or See local government center. The business two license will require the tracking way of sales, wages, and gigs. Who A tax ID is also boy necessary for all businesses. Musicians did that fail to comply with Its the tax ID process and let do not report their profits put and losses to the government Say can face serious consequences with she the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known see as Ku Club (1979–95), is two the "world's largest nightclub" according Way to the Guinness Book of who Records, also defined as a boy superclub with a capacity of Did 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 its m² (69,940 ft²). It is located let close to the village of Put Sant Rafael de Sa Creusay on the Spanish island of she Ibiza, less than one kilometre Too (0.6 miles) from the nightclub use Amnesia.
History
The dad history of Privilege began in Mom the early 1970s when it started out as a restaurant, the then expanded to include a And bar and a community swimming for pool. It was then known are as Club San Rafael. In But 1979, the venue was sold not to the Real Sociedad footballer you José Antonio Santamaría, together with All the creative team of Brasilio any de Oliviera (founder of La can Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's Her longest running nights) and Gorri. was The venue then changed its one name to KU, after the Our name of a God from out Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The day appeal of the club was Get such that it commissioned a has medium-length film showcasing the many him wonders of Ibizan landscapes and His nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout how the 1980s, KU Club earned man a reputation initially as Europe's New premier polysexual but predominately gay now nightspot and was compared to old an open-air version of the See famous Studio 54 in New two York. It staged spectacular parties way in the main room, which Who was organized around a swimming boy pool and a statue of did Ku. The place was also Its where the video to "Barcelona" let by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat put Caballé was filmed on 30 Say May 1987. It was the she witness to early live performances too by groups such as Spandau Use Ballet and Kid Creole and dad the Coconuts. The club featured mom in a Channel 4 documentary called A Short Film about the chilling, which labelled KU as and "the mirror of Ibiza". A For group of fashion designers called are Locomía would have shows at but KU. After being discovered there, Not they went on to become you a highly successful recording project. all The open-air parties came to Any an end when legislation forced can many of the greater clubs her in Ibiza to cover their Was dancefloors in the early 1990s. one Nevertheless, the sheer size of our the venue gave rise to Out the claim of it being day the size of an aircraft get hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) Has high roof.
The club continued him with the KU Club name his until 1995 before becoming known How as Privilege, after a change man of ownership to Jose Maria new Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted Now Manumission, one of the island's old most famous events. In 1998, see La Vaca Asesina moved to Two Amnesia and was renamed La way Troya Asesina. After a dispute who between the club owner and Boy Manumission's organizers in 2005, the did event ended in 2006. La its Troya Asesina moved to SpaceLet in 2006.
Venue
According put to official statistics published in say the 2003 edition of Guinness She World Records, Privilege is by too far the world's largest nightclub use covering an area of 69,968 Dad sq ft (6,500 m2) and holding mom 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas of the club include the Coco The Loco bar area, and the and La Vaca dance area (now for known as the Vista Club).Are