PROGRAMME STRUCTURE & CONTENT SUMMARY

Module 1: Monday 4^th February 2013

Music Publishing & Rights Management Today: Update & Analysis

• The changing role of the music publisher: key issues and implications  
• Music publishing in context: the music & media industries; eco-systems, databases & business models; interdependency, challenges & opportunities
• Classical, pop, independent & major publisher comparisons and differentials: business opportunities, practice, roles, functions and relationships  
• Music publishing value chains & revenue streams: practical analysis from music creation to music use & consumption
• Practical realities of rights licensing & collective management in the digital environment: from samples & mash ups to multiple media, rights & territories licensing
• Rights ownership, duration, infringements & exceptions

Writer & Composer / Publisher Relationships; Agreements & Contracts

• Investment & return; budgeting & cash flow; rights acquisition, signings, advances & recordings
• Services, process & procedure
• Relationship management: from negotiation to termination / development to international success
• Exclusive songwriter, option, catalogue, admin agreements; single piece/song assignments; development deals: key terms & conditions; implications and negotiation positions
• Classical, media & popular music publishing agreements: differentials & comparisons
• Roles & rewards: rights ownership & income participation - creators, publishers, performers, A/V production companies & studio producers

Module 3: Monday 8^th April 2013

Sub-Publishing, Co-Publishing, & Publisher Relationships / International Royalty Tracking

• Sub-publisher roles, licensing & practical relationship management
• Print, classical, media and popular music sub-publishing: differentials & comparisons
• Sub-publishing, co-publishing and catalogue agreements
• Key terms & conditions; implications and negotiation positions
• Royalty tracking & auditing: traditional & digital revenue streams
• Cash flow: deductions, royalty collection, taxation & distribution
• Direct membership of overseas collecting societies

Module 4: Monday 29^th April 2013

Music Publishing in Audio-Visual Media

• Overview of music publishing and audio-visual media in the UK: film, television, games, corporate productions & programming, advertising & the web
• Synch licensing & brand partnerships
• User generated content
• Music supervision & licensing agents
• Options for Producers: including commissioned, commercial, library / production and public domain music – benefits and opportunities
• Blanket licensing & agreements
• Assignment of rights & income participation in music publishing revenue streams: options, issues, practice and precedent
• Process and procedure: commissions; production music  & synch licensing; negotiation, decision-making and documentation
• Roles, responsibilities and time scales
• Key terms & conditions in media licensing agreements

Module 5: Monday 20^th May 2013

Music Publishing & The Record Business / Grand Rights & Live Performance

• Creator / Artist and Record Company / Music Publisher relationships & dynamics
• A&R, Marketing, Royalty Accounting, Business Affairs, Media Licensing and International: roles, challenges, interdependency and activities
• Song plugging & cover recordings
• Structuring Agreements: career & cash flow implications for creator / performers
• Audio product licensing & mechanical royalties: rates, negotiations, global issues & differentials

• Licensing Live Music: classical & popular music; worldwide rates & differentials; issues & opportunities
• Grand rights licensing & producer relationships
• Professional responsibilities, roles & functions; process & procedure

Module 6: Monday 17^th June 2013

International Collecting Societies & Global Royalty Streams

• Roles & relationships: working with Collecting Societies in key UK catalogue territories
• International relations: Society politics, co-operation & joint initiatives
• Registrations, notifications, rights ownership & licensing, royalty streams, deductions, distribution & operations: policies & procedure; comparisons and differentials
• Issues, challenges & opportunities
• Europe & North America
• The past, present & future of collective rights management