Neighbouring Rights Management
The "Neighbouring rights" or "Droits Voisins" relate to the sound recording of a musical work performed by an artist and recorded on any media.
These rights are derived from the broadcasting and commercial exploitation of the sound recording and these rights are paid to the owner of the sound recording and to the performers based upon the law of each particular country and the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (1961).
These rights are then collected by a series of organizations without much reciprocity agreements between them and/or between countries.
Such lack of reciprocity and the differences in law from country to country make it difficult for the owners of sound recordings and for the performers to collect what is rightfully theirs.
Kithara Musique has then implanted direct relationships with different collection societies, to ensure the proper registration, collection and administrations of such rights and proceeds.
We ensure that our client’s repertoires, whether a record company, sound recording owner or artist, are filed correctly with each society.
We proceed to ensure the reporting of products which contain our client’s sound recordings and sales figures as supplied by our clients or any third parties within each territory represented in order to maximize the collection of potential income accumulated in the pipeline and future revenue. In some countries income from up to 15 years ago can still be claimed retroactively.
Kithara Musique has access to the databases of each collecting society, which allows us to undertake the detailed work of searching for past uncollected income and claim it on behalf of our clients.
Our reporting statements then provide exceptional detail regarding the provenance of their neighbouring rights, including sound recording/video title, territory, period, income source, income type and collected amounts.
These rights are derived from the broadcasting and commercial exploitation of the sound recording and these rights are paid to the owner of the sound recording and to the performers based upon the law of each particular country and the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (1961).
These rights are then collected by a series of organizations without much reciprocity agreements between them and/or between countries.
Such lack of reciprocity and the differences in law from country to country make it difficult for the owners of sound recordings and for the performers to collect what is rightfully theirs.
Kithara Musique has then implanted direct relationships with different collection societies, to ensure the proper registration, collection and administrations of such rights and proceeds.
We ensure that our client’s repertoires, whether a record company, sound recording owner or artist, are filed correctly with each society.
We proceed to ensure the reporting of products which contain our client’s sound recordings and sales figures as supplied by our clients or any third parties within each territory represented in order to maximize the collection of potential income accumulated in the pipeline and future revenue. In some countries income from up to 15 years ago can still be claimed retroactively.
Kithara Musique has access to the databases of each collecting society, which allows us to undertake the detailed work of searching for past uncollected income and claim it on behalf of our clients.
Our reporting statements then provide exceptional detail regarding the provenance of their neighbouring rights, including sound recording/video title, territory, period, income source, income type and collected amounts.