How does the Music Business fits into Copyrights Law? Initially, I was being stuck as well with the same question while getting to know different facets of this industry as a young budding music producer. To answer this question, it is important to know few stuff about how a piece of music is created, further how a piece of music will create several rights and lastly, how can there be different right holders for the same piece of music.

Basically, Music comes into the play when a lyricist and a music composer comes together and either perform or record the thing in a recording studio. Their rights in such musical work are known as their copyrights, which are bundle of different exclusive rights. Generally, these rights are co-jointly owned by the composer and the lyricist.

In order to secure livelihood and continue making new music in comfort, some of these right holders often approach music publishers or record labels such as T-series or Sony music who can nurture and financially support them by often providing advance payment of royalties. Usually, these music publishers act as a shop window for users such as radio, television and online broadcasters as well as record companies in order to generate some business. On entering into such publishing contract with the publisher, such publisher also co-owns the rights in the musical work and becomes a rights holder himself.

Hence, the Copyright regime plays an important part when it comes to the Music Industry by way of governing the rights of the right holders.