Whose Song Is It Anyway?

Claire Batchelor is a Composer for TV, Documentary, Film and Brands. In this episode we talk about how composers can get paid for their work and Claire talks about her work with the Ivor's Academy on the Composers Against Buyouts campaign. She shares her experience as a composer and figuring out what a fair deal is, and we also discuss rights revocation.  https://www.clairebatchelor.co.uk/  https://ivorsacademy.com/campaign/composers-against-buyouts/  https://musiciansunion.org.uk/  Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher Co-host: Jules O'riordan Editor: Eliza Kania

Will Page is the former Chief Economist at Spotify and PRS, and author of Tarzan Economics. What's important about 285 miliseconds? Will reveals the psychology behind the Spotify Play button, and we discuss the pricing of streaming service subscriptions. https://tarzaneconomics.com/ Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher Co-host: Jules O'riordan Editor: Eliza Kania

Niclas Molinder is a Swedish songwriter and producer. He founded Session and the Music Rights Awareness Foundation working in collaboration with WIPO to form WIPO for Creators. Niclas explains what the identifiers are - essential information that artists and songwriters need to know about in order to get paid royalties! He tells us all about his company's free app, Session Studio, which helps songwriters and producers with their creative process and includes easy ways to keep track of identifiers, song splits and much more.  https://www.sessionstudio.com https://www.wipo.int/wipoforcreators/en/index.html  Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher Co-host: Jules O'Riordan Editor: Eliza Kania

Des Agyekumhene is an artist manager, NFT consultant, and co-founder of Soga world - who did the first NFT project with Neo and assisted Aitch in launching his "NFT album". We talk about NFTs and what opportunities and challenges there are for artists in the NFT space, Des shares his refreshing perspective on these technologies. https://soga.world/ https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/06/ten-things-to-know-about-nfts.html  Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher Co-host: Jules O'Riordan Editor: Eliza Kania

Damien Riehl is a lawyer, musician and technologist. He talks to us about this project All The Music and we discuss the ‘you copied my song’ lawsuits. What should be copyright protected and how would that effect the legal test for copyright infringement claims? And why do these cases keep coming? http://allthemusic.info/ Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher Co-host: Jules O'Riordan Editor: Eliza Kania

Roxanne de Bastion is a singer, songwriter and performer. She sits on the board of the Featured Artist Coalition and the perfomer board at PPL. In this episode Roxanne talks about her experience of making music and building her careeer, sharing the lessons that she learnt along the way.  https://roxannedebastion.com/  https://thefac.org/ https://www.ppluk.com/  Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher Co-host: Jules O'riordan Editor: Eliza Kania

In this episode I chat to Kevin Brennan MP about the DCMS Select Committe Inquiry into the Economics of Music Streaming and his Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.) Bill. We talk about the inquiry, the recommendations made and the Bill, and what all this could mean for songwriters, performers and the future of the music industry. This episode was recorded at an event organised for the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association (BLACA) together with Bristows on 9th December 2021.  Links: DCMS Economics of Streaming Inquiry - https://committees.parliament.uk/work/646/economics-of-music-streaming/ Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.) Bill - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2901  IPKat Blog - https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/search/label/UK%20Streaming%20Inquiry  Dr Hayleigh Bosher - https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/hayleigh-bosher Kevin Brennan MP - http://www.kevinbrennan.co.uk/ BLACA - http://www.blaca.org/   Bristows - https://www.bristows.com/

In this final episode of the series, Jules talks about his career as a DJ and music lawyer and the mentality of being an artist/lawyer. Jules talks about how, as a music lawyer, he helps his clients make commercial decisions, clear rights or negotiate deals, as well as making a positive influence in the broader sense by moving the goal posts of these contracts. Jules gives some advice to budding music lawyers and explains what he thinks is the most common confusion for artists around copyright.

Musicologist Christian Siddell explains what a musicologist does and how he became one, we also discuss what needs to be added to an out of copyright song in order for it to qualify as a new arrangement and Christian talks about one of the first cases he worked on - about the song Young at Heart recorded by The Bluebells.

Tom Kiehl is Deputy CEO and Director of Public Affairs at UK Music. In this episode Tom tells us what UK Music is about, how to get involved in the politics of the music industry, explains the practicalities of the process of a public consultation, such as the streaming inquiry, and what happened when UK Music took the government took court in Judicial Review in 2014 over the private copying exception. Lastly Tom talks about the impact of Brexit on copyright in the music industry.