Second Music Publishing Quiz

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Test Yourself on Weeks 2, 3 and 4 Concepts

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Student's First Name *

The term "music publishing" was originally derived from the sale of what? *

What total must the songwriter's portion of a song equal in all cases? *

select one

100%

50%

Songwriters with large numbers of unrecorded compositions are attractive to most major publishers *

True

False

The normal percentage of income paid to a songwriter by their publisher *

select one

25%

50%

75%

100%

Songwriter agreements can be one of two types. What are they? *

The main difference between a Songwriter's agreement and an Administration agreement with a Music Publisher is? agreement is? *

Can only have an advance with a Songwriter agreement

Do not have to assign the copyright to Publisher for Administration agreements

Songwriter agreement returns all the copyrights to you afer 3 years, but not Administration agreement

Side Artist Agreements never contain an assignment of copyrights to the person hiring them *

select one

true

false

When several songwriters own a song, each writer can administer their own share independently as they choose, unless they have agreed to do otherwise in a co-administration ageement signed between them. *

True

False

Songwriter's in demand can often negotiate what percentage of the publisher's share of income from their songs? *

select one

10%

25%

75%

50%

If a songwriter has a "co-publishing" type of income split with a publisher, what percentage of total income do they receive?

select one

95%

85%

75%

55%

Clear selection

A "sub-publisher" of a US publisher, collects what category of income for them? *

select one

foreign earnings from the US publisher's songs generated in their country

internet earnings

earnings from compilations

If a band wants to control an outside writer's portion of a song that they helped the band to write, what choices do they have? *

select at least one

ask co-writer to sign a "work for hire" agreement for their share

ask co-writer to sign a music publishing ageement with the band's publishing company for their share

ask the co-writer to sign a long term administration agreement with the band for their share

ask the co-writer to sign a music publishing agreement with another publisher for their share

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