29 Jun
Your Music Your Future buyouts campaign launches in German
The global education resource Your Music Your Future International (YMYFI) has launched in German, helping composers better understand buyouts or their rights and extending the creator-led campaign to six language versions. Buyouts have become a worldwide issue for creators, driven in part by the growth of powerful global streaming services.
Read more7 Feb
Are buyouts the only way forward for young composers? Think again, says Your Music Your Future/UBC/CISAC panel
What’s the best deal for a young composer licensing their music to a broadcaster or digital platform? Traditionally, royalties have been the way to build your career, but increasingly, music creators are getting asked to sign over their rights for a single lump sum payment. This was the question at
Read more12 Jul
“Your Music Your Future International” comes to the Cannes Film Festival
YMYF founder Joel Beckerman outlines the global CISAC-backed education campaign about buyouts Your Music Your Future International is a global education campaign, led by composers, that seeks to raise awareness about the options composers have with their remuneration. The campaign was launched in February 2021, with CISAC partnering with the successful
Read more23 Jun
Case Study: deciding to say no to a complete buyout
An Australian composer learned a useful lesson when offered a US contract Buyouts, while much talked about of late, are nothing new. In 2009 Australian composer Ben was asked to score a 90 min feature documentary for a major cable TV network. It was his first encounter with a buyout
Read more9 Jun
Your Music Your Future launched in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish
Your Music Your Future International, the global education campaign on copyright buyouts, is today being made available in four new languages, supported by CISAC’s member societies in France, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Brazil and Finland. The new sites, in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Finnish, will take the campaign to more countries
Read more29 Apr
Protect your royalties and protect yourself
Royalties versus buyouts. Yawn. Can’t we just skip to the part where I get to write cool music and hear it on TV? Anything you can pay me would be great! So says every composer (myself included) when first entering into the world of writing music for TV and film.
Read more7 Apr
AUTHORS ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THE CHANGE IN THE MEDIA MARKET. “THERE HAS BEEN A VISIBLE DECLINE IN AUTHOR COMPENSATION”
Henry is a Nordic composer who has been making music all his life. He is a fourth-generation musician and has performed in over 50 different countries in various line-ups. Professional composer he has been for about 15 years. Having received many kinds of offers during his career, Henry has learned
Read more31 Mar
Ivors Academy and Musicians’ Union launch campaign against buyouts of media composers’ copyrights
The Ivors Academy and the Musicians’ Union have launched a #ComposersAgainstBuyout campaign to stop TV and film productions as well as advertisers from completely buying out the copyrights of media composers. The campaign seeks to create awareness on the increasingly practiced imposed copyright buyouts which deprive creators of their rights.
Read more26 Mar
Asia Pacific international symposium highlights need for global education on copyright buyouts and issues five key recommendations
See live debate here March 26th, 2021 - Composers and songwriters across the world need to get educated on the growing practice of copyright buyouts by the producers, broadcasters and platforms using their works. Buyouts are an increasingly common way for companies to license composers’ works, requiring the creator to surrender
Read more15 Mar
Explaining copyright buyouts: new CISAC guidelines for creators worldwide
15th March 2021 – A set of Guidelines from CISAC on copyright buyouts is now being made available to creators and the general public from Your Music Your Future International. The paper is an abridged version of an analysis completed for CISAC member societies in June 2020 and is based
Read more28 Jan
Royalties and control vs buyout and lump sum fee: a Case Study
European film and TV composer David learned the hard way in his negotiation with a major international video streaming service David is a well-known and successful film composer who has been writing music for documentaries and movies for more than ten years. In 2020 he experienced a new kind of
Read more21 Jan
Simon Darlow, deputy chairman, PRS for Music, speaks on buyout contracts at the 2020 Creators Conference
The following speech was made by Simon Darlow, deputy chairman, PRS For Music, on Monday 3 February 2020 at the 2020 Creators Conference organised by European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) in Brussels. ‘The practice referred to as a buyout is when a producer, typically in the audio-visual or video
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