Compulsory Licenses in the Music Industry

Compulsory copyright license is the exception to copyright law. It is the government’s attempt to correct a market failure or a monopoly. A compulsory license allows a person to exercise one or more of the copyright’s exclusive rights without having to obtain the copyright holder’s permission. All the individual has to do is pay a licensing fee. This is why it is called a...
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Compulsory Licenses and Your Music

Although obtaining a copyright for your music is easy and a great way to protect your property and it provides you with exclusive rights, the law has created an exception to copyright law that makes your right to your own music a little less exclusive. In the music industry, the phrase “compulsory license” is often thrown around. What does compulsory license mean? Well, this may come as a...
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