digital

  • Dmca is most widely known for the creation of… that requires content holders to give service providers notice of infringement before action is taken

    • Safe Harbour Provision

  • What is the purpose of copyright law?

    • To promote the advancement of useful art and sciences

  • What tech 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

  • The copyright office suggests that copyright law extends the public performance right in sound recordings to include…

    • Terrestrial radio broadcast:

  • The mma requires DSPs like spotify to help create a … that will be tasked with developing and maintaining a database of musical works

    • MLC

  • This title section of the mma will allow music producers to receive compensation for royalties from sound recordings

    • AMP Act

  • The copyright office designated the amlc to build and operate the mechanical licensing collective created by the music modernization act

    • False

  • What is the one free market negotiation in section 115 of copyright law that the copy in the music marketplace report suggests 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

  • What is an ISRC?

    • International Standard Recording Code: used to register and track streams

  • Napster facilitated piracy by storing millions of song files on its servers that its users could then download illegally

    • False

  • What classification are isps trying to avoid in order to kill net neutrality?

    • Title 2:

  • In the us terrestrial radio broadcasters do not pay a performance fee for the sound recording

    • True

  • What type of the royalties are the mlc responsible for collecting?

    • Digital interactive mechanical royalties

  • What type of royalties do pros collect and distribute?

    • Performance royalties for musical composition

  • When it comes to royalties in 2025 what is black box money?

    • Royalty 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

  • Rates paid by subscription based streaming services are far lower then those paid by ad supported streaming services

    • False

  • Spotify and apple music are examples of … streaming because those streaming services allow users to select songs at will and access them at any time

    • Interactive

  • Sound exchange distributes royalties by the following percentages:

    • Sound recording owner: 50

    • Features artists: 45

    • Studio musicians: 5

  • copyright offices approach would be offer a … alternative to musical 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 alternative

    • Opt out right

  • This section of copyright act provides a compulsory license to make and distribute phonorecords subject to the terms and conditions of use

    • Section 115

  • 19 year olds who founded Napster are shawn… and sean…

    • Sean parker

    • Shawn fanning

  • Listening to sirius xm radio is … streaming

    • Non interactive

  • Napster was founded in June of … and filed for bankruptcy in June of …

    • Founded june 1999

    • Bankruptcy in 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 approved rates for on demand streaming mechanical royalties which are currently set at …% will be increased to what percentage in 2027?

    • 15.1%

    • 15.35%

  • This is the concept stating that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally

    • Net neutrality

  • Elements of this defense to copyright infringement include purpose and character of the use and amount of the work used

    • Fair use

  • Challenged by ascap and bmi for being overly restrictive and out of date

    • Doj consent decrees

  • Initially protects isps for persecution for illegally uploaded content

    • Safe harbor provision of the dmca

  • This group is fighting in congress for a no performance tax claiming undue hardship

    • National association of broadcasters

  • Currently boasts 265 million paid subscribers

    • spotify

  • These collect performance royalties for songwriters and lobby for their interests

    • PROs (ascap, bmi, sesac)

  • Life of author + 70 years

    • General duration of copyright us

  • This collects the mechanical royalty for physical album sales

    • Harry fox agency

  • This collects non interactive digital royalties for artists and record companies

    • Sound exchange

  • This collects mechanical royalty for digital streams from dsps

    • mlc

  • This brings pre 1972 sound recordings partially into the federal copyright system

    • mma

  • Copyright allows owner a limited monopoly allowing them to do the following

    • Distribute

    • Duplicate

    • First use

    • Derivative work

    • Right to perform publicly

    • Display publicly

  • How much did napster pay metallica

    • 1 mil each