ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the music and entertainment industries and how copyright legislation is protecting artists’ and performers’ economic rights in the form of royalty payments. The music industry is a complicated business with a number of representative sectors and components interacting to make it work. The UK is the world’s fourth-largest music publishing market, providing 10 per cent of worldwide revenues, and is second only to the United States as a source of repertoire. Ownership of copyright can be transferred, so where something is produced that has involved contributions from more than one person, it would be possible for copyright in all the material to be owned by a single person as a result of appropriate transfers. Traditionally there are a number of categories of ‘performers’ involved in the process of music composition and exploitation. Session musicians originally involved in the acts would also benefit from the change in legislation.
