Songwriters make videos, records and music discs, but they often do not receive copyright on them. Moreover, for each piece of music, legal relations have to be registered separately. Therefore, the question of how to grant the rights to record, while retaining the copyright for a work, worries many contemporary performers.
Instructions
Step 1
In an effort to protect your copyright in a musical work, keep in mind that by doing this you will not be able to protect yourself from imitators, and the consolidation of related rights should take into account not only the interests of the singer, but also assign the name of the composer or poet to the work. In order to grant the rights to record, you must, firstly, choose a studio whose staff will record phonograms, as well as filmed videos. Remember that both you and the studio become subjects of related rights, receiving equal opportunities to make a profit from a piece of music and subsequent sales of released discs.
Step 2
Firstly, in order to grant the rights to record, contact the relevant authorities and prove that this piece of music has not yet been broadcast, and that you are the author, as well as a group of persons who have related rights with you. By recording a work, you will subsequently lose the right to control your performance and make any adjustments to it. In the documents, record your own name or pseudonym, the name of the composer and the author of the text, as well as the name of the musical work itself, while registering the recording itself, recorded in the form of a phonogram or video.
Step 3
Secondly, before granting the rights to record for broadcasting your work on television, using a musical work in any other area, familiarize yourself with the norms of current legislation, and also use the professional services of a competent lawyer. Please note that when drafting the contract, you must consider whether this will not infringe your copyright. When transferring the recording rights to third parties, make sure that the document is not drafted in such a way that you lose all copyrights previously owned by you to use the phonogram of your song or melody.
Step 4
Remember that according to the law of the Russian Federation, the first record to which you have given the right does not provide for subsequent unauthorized rewriting. Therefore, when signing the contract, indicate in it whether you give the right to a specific recording studio or video recording to reproduce the original phonogram and reproduce it on separate media, or you only agree that its employees perform only a single recording of the phonogram without the right to further use it on their own discretion.
