Copyright & Licensing Resources
Compiled by Clayton Crenshaw, former Music Liaison Librarian, Baylor University (revised Feb2018).
Copyright
Baylor Resources
Copyright Education
Copyright Terms & Definitions (Copyright Society of the USA)
Copyright Basics (Copyright Society of the USA)
Copyright Tutorial for Musicians by Jodie Griffin
Copyright Crash Course (UT-Austin)
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Cornell University)
Untangling the Bundle: Grand Rights vs. Small Rights by Steven Lankenau
BMI: Types of Copyright [and Licensing]
National Association for Music Education: Copyright
includes FAQs, links to articles and outside resources
Fair Use
Codes of Best Practices – Center for Media and Social Impact
Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? (Center for the Study of the Public Domain)
Drummond, Tim. “Understanding Copyright and Fair Use in the Music Classroom.” Music Educators Journal 102, no. 2 (December 2015): 48–53.
U.S. Copyright Office
U.S. Copyright Office: Registration Portal
Licensing
Definitions
Forms
Harry Fox Agency: Request for Mechanical License (for requests not available through Songfile)
Creative Commons
Music Licensing - General
Passman, Donald S., and Randy Glass. All You Need to Know about the Music Business. Ninth edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. (ML3790 .P35 2015)
Performance Licensing
ASCAP: License Agreements and Reporting Forms
CCLI: Streaming License (bottom of page)
Mechanical Licensing (sound recordings)
Synchronization and Master Use Licensing (audiovisual works)
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