Digital Media Flashcards
DMCA is most widely known for the creation of… that requires content holders to give service providers notice of infringement before action is taken
DMCA: Digital millennia copyright act passed in 1998
- Safe harbor provision
What is the purpose of copyright law
to promote the advancement of useful art and sciences
what deck is credited for welcoming music consumers into the digital age and compelling them to rebuy their music libraries
CD
what government agency was responsible for repealing the Obama era net neutrality regulations on broadband companies in 2017?
FCC: federal communications commission
the copyright offi suggests that copyright law extends the public performance right in sound recordings include
- Terrestrial radio broadcast: FM radio
-Pros only collect performance rights for music composition not sound recording
-Nobody collects performance rights for terrestrial radio in the US.
The MMA requires DSPS. like Spotify to help create a ____ that will be tasked with developing and maintaining a database of musical works
- MMA: music modernization act
-MLC: Mechanical licensing collective (collects royalties from DSP’s)
The title section of the MMA among other things will allow music producers to receive compensation for royalties from sound recordings
AMP Act: producers directly collect royalties. from places like sound exchange
true or false: copyright office designated the AMLC to build and operate the mechanical licensing collective created by music modernization act
False
What is the one free market negotiation in section 115 in copyright law that the copy and music market place report suggest should NOT be changed to a government supervised licensing regime
sync license
tech giants like google, apple are members of this major trade group
DIMA: digital media association
What is an ISRC
International standard recording code: registered code to track streams (each song gets their own code)
true or false: Napster facilitated piracy by storing million of song files on its servers that it’s user could download them illegally
False: they would trade files (person to person network)
what classification are Isp’s trying to avoid in order to kill net neutrality?
Title Two: public utility (phone lines)
True or false: in the U.S terrestrial radio broadcaster do no pay a performance fee for sound recording
True
What type of the royalties are the MLC responsible for collecting:
Digital interactive mechanical royalties (have a choice in picking song)
What kind of royalties do PRO’s collect and distribute?
Performance royalties for the musical composition
When it comes to royalties in 2025 what is “black box money”?
royalties revenue that does not reach the right party for one reason or another.
to get your music on Apple Music amazon or Spotify you would most likely use?
digital aggregator
Ture or false: Rates paid by subscription based streaming services are far lower then those paid by ad supported streaming services
false: money comes from subscriptions
Spotify and Apple Musica re example software ___ streaming because those streaming services allow the listeners to to select songs at will and access them at any time
interactive
sound exchange distribute royalties by the following percentages
___ sound recording owners
___ Featured artist
___ Studio musician
- 50%
-45%
-5%
copyright offices approach would be offer a __ alternative to music work owners in the form of a __ right to withdraw specific categories of rights in key areas where sound recording owners collect key benefits
- free market
-opt out right
this section ___ of copy right act provides a compulsory license to make and distribute phono records subject to the terms and conditions of use.
-115
19 year old who founded Napster are Shawn __ & Sean ___
- Fanning
- Parker
Litening to sirius xm radio is..
-Streaming
Napster was founded in June of___ and filed for bankruptcy in June of__
-1999
-2002
there are large pools of royalty revenue that end up outside of the artist reach in a so Called
-Black box money
Currently in the streaming marketplace owners of the ___ receive majority of income per stream
-The master/ sound recording.
the new CRB rates for on demand streaming mechanical royalties currently set at ___ will be increased at ___by 2027
-15.2%
-15.35%
this is the concept stating that all traffic in the internet should be treated equally
net - neutrality
elements of this defense to copyright infringement include purpose of the use and the amount of the work use
fair-use
these are challenged by ASCAP and BMI being overly restrictive and out of date
DOJ consent decree
Initially protect ISPS for protection for illegally uploaded content
safe harbor provision of the DMCA
this group is fighting in congress for a no “” performance tax clanging undue hardship
national association of broadcasters
currently boasts 265 milliton paid subscribers
Spotify
these collect perfmornace royalties for songwriters and lobby for their interest
-PRO’S.
General duration of copyright
life of author+70 years
this collects the mechanical royalty for physical album sales
Harry Fox Agency
this collects non interactive digital royalties for artist and record companies
soundexchange
collects mechanical realities from DSP’s
MLC
is brings pre 1972 recording partially into the federal copyright system
MMA (musical modernization act)
copyright allows owner a limited monopoly allowing them to do the following
- distribute
-duplicate
-first use
-derivative work
-perform publicly
-display publicly
how much did Napster need to pay Metallica?
- 1 million each
