Crockett wrote:DarkSky wrote:Avex is just a licensor of Eurobeat music. They license songs from the labels in Italy to be allowed to distribute them in a certain part of the world.
And if I'm not wrong, much more precisely, not directly from italian labels, but from companies being their italian publishers, which sell, share Eurobeat from each studio, label to the international company, next publisher - Avex Trax.
Kinda. Not entirely true.
A publisher should be on the lookout for opportunities to publish the music. So basically yes, they
could be looking for opportunities to get it published on a label. They should mostly be working on getting the song synced to television series, movies or in games or so. This is all very legal-ish and difficult to understand. Aaand... publishers do receive a certain percentage for collecting copyright royalties around the world. (Each time song is played on radio, or featured in a movie or whatever, a small part of money has to be paid, publishers basically collect that money and pay it to the copyright holders.
In return for what they do, they play a role in copyright and if the song is contracted with a publisher they do own a percentage of the song's copyright. Which means officially you gotta get clearance from them too.
Contini S.R.L is the biggest one in Eurobeat.
You can look up which parties to contact to get copyright clearance in the JASRAC database: http://www2.jasrac.or.jp/eJwid/main.jsp?trxID=F00100
For instance on this song: Dream Fighters - All About You.
http://www2.jasrac.or.jp/eJwid/main.jsp ... sion=start
As you can see the copyright holders are:
1. DI MARCANTONIO D (Composer)
2. VERMAAK S (Writer, which is actually me, lol)
3. CONTINI SRL (Publisher)
4. AVEX PUBLISHING (Sub Publisher)
Those are the ones to get clearance from.
Yes. Singers are NOT copyright holders, don't bother contacting them. (Unless they wrote their own music and were featured as composer and/or writer)
