Whose Song Is It Anyway?

Welcome to Season three of the podcast! This episode explains why this season is different and what to expect...

This season is produced and hosted by Hayleigh Bosher https://www.instagram.com/hayleigh.bosher/ 

Edited by Eliza Kania https://twitter.com/elizakania 

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios

Steve Tempest AKA DJ S.K.T is a DJ, Producer and Label Manager. In this episode we talk about music sampling (of the composition and/or the master), fair deals and arrangements for song splits and joint ownership when creating music. Steve also shares his experience with getting back to live gigs after the pandemic.

https://clubsweat.lnk.to/GotYourMoneyFa 

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Jane Dyball is a long time music industry executive, working mostly in publishing from Virgin, Warner and ran MCPS Collecting Society. More recently she runs her own consultancy business. Looking back over the historical developments in the music industry during Jane’s career, of which there were many. Jane shares her experience of being on the publishing side of the changes brought into the music industry from ringtones, to downloads and then streaming services as well as the efficiency and structural developments of the collection societies.

https://www.laffittesltd.com/

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

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/