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The future of music rights under the spotlight on next CMU Insights course

By | Published on Monday 25 November 2013

CMU Insights

The latest round of CMU Insights training courses continue this week with an overview of the music rights sector called, simply, ‘Making Money From Music Rights’.

This half-day session looks at trends and developments in the digital music sector, the future of the CD and vinyl markets, and considers the increased important of sync and public performance licensing. The spotlight is then thrown on the industry’s attempts to protect its copyrights, looking at both sector-wide initiatives and the growth of industrial-level takedown notice issuing.

Says CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke, who leads the course: “The music rights sector is too often written off – ‘the future is live’ we are told – but the intellectual property side of the business is not going anywhere, despite the slide in record sales and boom in piracy that has dominated the headlines in the last decade. This course looks at how we are making money out of music rights today, and makes some predictions about how artists and their business partners will be monetising their IP in the future”.

A few tickets are still available for the course at this URL. Bookings are also being taken for next week’s session, ‘Promoting Music’, which looks at the media and social media platforms available to the music business, and provides an overview of the classic music PR campaign, and how things are changing.



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