Copyright

w:copyright

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4918214.stm - Q&A: Royalty rights for musicians
  • "Performers in the UK receive royalties from record sales and radio airplay for 50 years after a song is released."

• w:Copyright collective, w:List of copyright collection societies
  • w:Performance rights organisation (PRO), CISAC
    • rights of composers and authors (lyricists) in most countries expire 70 years after their death
  • w:Reproduction rights organisation (RRO) IFRRO

• other
  • IFPI
  • w:Sound recording copyright
    • Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms