Osprey Associates

Intellectual property represents an important financial and legal asset for companies, including startups. It is often estimated that intellectual property counts for more than 80% of company’s value. For investors, companies with a solid intellectual property portfolio are attractive investment targets.  Here are 5 reasons why:

Making music is about passion, inspiration, emotion and creative talent. However, it is not just a gift of human nature: it also requires an extraordinary amount of hard work, time, effort and sustained investment.  

“Investing in Music” reveals how much financial investment is now needed in the industry. This truly impressive report gives insight into the work of today’s global music sector.  

Synchronisation in the music industry is the process of having a musical composition in direct connection with a moving picture. This could be a tv show, a film, advert, video game or anything with a visual platform. If you’d like to use a particular song for your visual platform, you’ll usually gain this permission from a publisher / songwriter and acquire something called a “Sync License.” 

Copyright of a musical work begins automatically once a piece of music is created and documented or recorded. In the United Kingdom, this is detailed in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  Copyright in a sound recording is separate from any copyright in the words and music contained in the recording. The first owner of the copyright in a sound recording is usually the record producer.