Synchronization right

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The dubbing right , also film production right or work connection right is a copyright right of use and belongs to the ancillary rights to a musical work . It describes the right to combine a musical work with a film as a film score , for example as part of a film, a television program, in a music video or in television advertising. The term comes from the “synchronous” use of the music, that is, the use of the music that fits the images.

Synchronization rights can be a significant source of income for music professionals. As a rule, the film producer acquires the synchronization rights from the music publisher or directly from the composer (and possibly from the songwriter ), less often from a collecting society . In addition, the needs of the producer for synchronization rights neighboring rights of performers (usually the music label ) and the rights to use the editing and duplication catch (usually by the collecting society).

The right to synchronize musical works must be distinguished from the right to synchronize a film .

literature

  • Kirsten König: Legal Problems of Music in Film. The film authorship of those involved in its creation and the film production right . Schüling, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-934849-03-2 .
  • Gernot Schulze: On the restriction of the film production right for musical works . In: Christian Schertz ; Hermann-Josef Omsels (Ed.): Festschrift for Paul W. Hertin . Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46903-5 , p. 237-245 .
  • Stefan Ventroni: The film production right. A copyright problem with the audiovisual use of music in film, television and multimedia (=  series of publications of the Archives for Copyright and Media Law (UFITA) . No. 186 ). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7082-3 .
  • Claude Wesche: The sync right: A legal comparison between Germany and Switzerland on the use of pre-existing music in audiovisual productions . Diss., Zurich, Univ. Stämpfli, Bern 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinz-Hermann Meyer: Synchronization right . In: Hans Jürgen Wulff (Hrsg.): Lexicon of film terms . July 19, 2011, ISSN  1610-420X ( filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c d right of synchronization . In: Alexander Unverzagt, Herbert Koch (Ed.): Dictionary of the music industry. 1,000 technical terms from music, business and law . Musikmarkt, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-9809540-6-4 , p. 180 .
  3. ↑ a b c American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Ed.): Common Licensing Terms Defined . ( ascap.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Robert Plummer: syncing feeling lifts music industry . In: BBC News . 2017 ( bbc.com [accessed September 14, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Dietmar Dokalik: The right of synchronization . May 2005 ( Rechtssprobleme.at [PDF]).