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Music plagiarism is the use or close imitation of another author's music while representing it as one's own original work.Plagiarism in music now occurs in two contexts—with a musical idea (that is, a melody or motif) or sampling (taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it in a different song).
The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) is a 501(c) not-for-profit trade organization that works to help songwriters in three ways: through legislative advocacy, through education and advice about the actual craft of songwriting, and through teaching about the music industry, and how to best position a song for success within it.
Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. [1] Music licensing is intended to ensure that the owners of copyrights on musical works are compensated for certain uses of their work. A purchaser has limited rights to use the work without a separate agreement.
Wixen Music Publishing, Inc., formerly known as Backlash Enterprises, Inc., is an independent American music publishing company founded in 1979 by Randall Wixen. [1] The company is headquartered in Calabasas, California .
MusicRow is a Nashville music industry trade publication. [1] The publication delivers online content in addition to six annual print magazines including its InCharge, Artist Roster and Publisher directories. [2] [3] MusicRow Enterprises is also home to song pitch-sheet RowFax, and the MusicRow radio chart.
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) (/ ˈ æ s k æ p /) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).
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The co-publishing ("co-pub") deal is perhaps the most common publishing agreement. Under this deal, the songwriter and the music publisher are "co-owners" of the copyrights in the musical compositions. The writer becomes the "co-publisher" (i.e. co-owner) with the music publisher based on an agreed split of the royalties.