The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize
Host and cspan we want to introduce you to professor Allen Bargfrede an associate professor at the Berkeley College of music in boston and executive director of an Organization Called rethink music. Professor bargfrede what is rethink music and whats the report you just came out on the Music Industry . Guest rethink music is a think tanker form to berkeley so obvious over the past 15 years there has been a number of changes in the industry because we have more than 1000 graduates from our college every year and to have a viable career in the Music Industry we chose to open up a think tank or Research Initiative to really look at some of this and try to foster a sustainable ecosystem for them. Host well, two questions. Number one is when somebody downloads or uploads a tune from itunes its 1. 99 just for one song. Word is that 1. 99 go . Do you get it . Guest typically a download from itunes, 30 of that is paid out to apple and 70 is paid out to the rights holders and thats generally wi
Think tank or a Research Initiative to really look at some of this and try to foster innovation in the Music Industry and try to foster a sustainable musical ecosystem for them. Host well, lets two questions. Number one is when somebody downloads or uploads a tune from itunes, pays 1. 99 for one song, where does that go . Who gets it . Guest so typically in a download from itunes, about 30 of that is kept by apple, 70 is paid out to the rights holders, and thats generally split roughly 10 in the u. S. To the songwriters and Music Publishers and about 670 to 60 to music labels and the artists they represent. Host and the artists themselves, how much of that, how much do they get out of that 70 . Guest it depends really on the contractual deal between the record label and the artist. Typically, its 1525 royalty depending on the negotiating power of the artist, and then there are a variety of deductions that come into, come into play as they are paid out by the record label. Theres also r
Ur rate is 15 20 5 . This structure, this payment structure, is it set by the industry and by the interested parties, or does the federal government have a role in this as well . Allen the federal government plays a big role. Regulating rates such as mechanical royalties which are the royalties paid for the reproduction of a song or musical composition. The sound recording side remember there are two copyrights in music the Music Publishing side, which is the underlying side of words and music, and then there is a sound recording, which is the of that musical composition. On the sound recording side, typically those rates are negotiated on a fair market basis. Some would argue that the songwriters and publishers are a are at a slight disadvantage because they are regulated while the sound recording site is not. Peter joining us is jimm phillips. Jimm good morning. A lot of the recommendations in your report kind of look at how the industry can Work Together to advance some of these ide
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