Legal Question in Entertainment Law in California

Can I please get some clarification on the clause below. This is a license agreement between myself (the artist) and a music licensing firm. My main concern with this clause is that they can reproduce our original music (i.e. have a new band play our songs) and distribute it, and we will only collect royalties on that. We don't mind licensing our original music, but we don't want another group playing our stuff.

Licensee is the owner operator of an archive of musical compositions and

master recordings (the �Library�) and desires to obtain from Licensor, and Licensor desires to

grant to Licensee, upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, a

world-wide license to use the Licensed Properties without limitation including the reproduction

of the Licensed Properties in any form, to distribute copies of the Licensed Properties, including

delivering the Licensed Properties in digital transmissions, to create derivative works based upon

the Licensed Properties, and to perform the Licensed Properties publicly (the "Licensed

Activities") for the �Term�. Any grant of license, sub-license, synchronization license by

Licensee during the Term to any third party to use the Licensed Properties in connection with the

Licensed Activities shall survive in perpetuity the Term and termination of this agreement.


Asked on 3/21/12, 5:19 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Marina Lang

Ensuring that your copyright to original music is properly protected via Licenses and Royalty schemes is very important. I need a bit more info on this matter. Call me for a free consultation.

Marina Lang

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Answered on 5/10/12, 8:48 am


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