Royalties, Licensing and collection

Question 1

What two copyrights exist within any recording?

Answer 1

Compositional Copyright

Sound Recording Copyright

Question 2

Who is involved in compositional copyright?

Answer 2

Writer and publisher.

Question 3

Who is involved in sound recording copyright?

Answer 3

Recording Artist and Label

Question 4

What two categories are royalties broken into?

Answer 4

Mechanical Royalties

Performance royalties

Question 5

What are mechanical royalties?

Answer 5

Royalties paid on the physical sale of a song.

Question 6

What are performance royalties?

Answer 6

Royalties paid on a “live” performance of a song.

Question 7

What are royalties?

Answer 7

Royalties are payments made by the user for the “right” to use the
composition and recording.

Question 8

Explain the roles of SAMRO, CAPASSO, SAMPRA and IMPRA

Answer 8

SAMRO deals with performance royalty collections.

CAPASSO deals with mechanical royalty collections.

SAMPRA and IMPRA deal with Needle time collections.

Question 9

What are needle time rights?

Answer 9

Needle time Rights royalties make sure performers and recording
artists get paid when their music is played in public. These are the
people who were in the studio playing the instruments, or singing
the lyrics when the recording was made.

Question 10

What is a music synchronisation license?

Answer 10

A music synchronization license, or “sync” for short, is a music license granted by the holder of the
copyright of a particular composition, allowing the licensee to synchronize (“sync”) music with some kind
of visual media output (film, television shows, advertisements, video games, accompanying website
music, movie trailers, etc.)

When an audio/visual project producer wants to use a recording in their work, they must contact both the
owner of the sound recording (record label of the performer), and the owner of the composition
(publishing company of the songwriter).

Question 11

If you want to use a song in audio-visual media, what licenses do you need?

Answer 11

the synchronisation license and the master license.

Question 12

What does RISA do?

Answer 12

Central organization that represents the recording industry of South Africa.

Some of RISA’s functions include.
* Issue ISRC codes for distribution.

• Certifies gold, platinum and Multi-platinum streaming and sales awards.
• Operates the South African Music Awards (SAMA’s)
• Represents the interests of the greater South African recording industry.