Sentence examples for performance rights from inspiring English sources

Composers own the performance rights (for a while); performers own some of the profits from record sales.

In exchange, the newly empowered Foster sells the exclusive performance rights to Christy, whose celebrated ensemble — featuring white performers in blackface — will, in turn, spread Foster's fame far and wide.

"This issue of performance rights is not over," he said.

He was a tough controller of Brecht's performance rights.

Nowadays, publishers grant performance rights or rent out parts to orchestras.

Some Native Americans consider songs to be property and have developed formal systems of musical ownership, inheritance, and performance rights.

Composers and their publishers own certain publication and performance rights, but even these are threatened by new technologies.

The federation is coordinating a global campaign to double the amount raised from performance rights over the next decade.

Pandora is contractually obligated to pay a minimum of twenty five per cent of its non-subscription revenues to SoundExchange, a non-profit performance rights organization.

Although the original commission made no allowance for live-performance rights, he began the long task of turning "Babar" into a kind of digitized opera.

John Bowe's article does a sensational job of explaining exactly what performance-rights organizations like BMI and Ascap actually do with one small exception.