New Models for
Distribution –
“Getting the Music Out”
June 22-24, 2008

Copyright & Legal Issues
Blanket licensing by copyright
collectives, more specifically,
performing rights organizations (PRO)
like SOCAN:
A unique kind of transaction
A unique kind of business
The future of licensing music?
page 2

Copyright & Legal Issues
Multiplicity of musical works
Multiplicity of copyright owners
Multiplicity of users
Multiplicity of uses (transactions
required)
page 3

Copyright & Legal Issues
PRO blanket licenses grant:
The right to perform the works
actually used
Immediate and unlimited access to
the world’s repertoire
No cost or delay in making separate
transactions with millions of
copyright owners
page 4

Copyright & Legal Issues
PRO blanket licenses grant: [cont’d]
Indemnification from millions of
individual lawsuits
Efficiencies in monitoring, royalty
payment, and enforcement of
millions of individual works
page 5

Copyright & Legal Issues
Copyright collectives and the
blanket licence:
The individual compositions used
plus the flexibility of the aggregating
service offered (any and all other
works)
“The whole is truly greater than the
sum of its parts. It is… a different
product.”
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Copyright & Legal Issues
Collectives substantially lower
costs for copyright users and
copyright owners.
Blanket licensing by copyright
collectives benefit both sellers
(creators and copyright owners)
and buyers (music users and the
public)
page 7

Licensing the Means of Performance
page 8

Copyright & Legal Issues
“New” Models of Distribution?
What’s really new?
1851
page 9

Copyright & Legal Issues
Performances
Copies
Communications
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Copyright & Legal Issues
“Owning” v. Accessing
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