6.4 Musical works file
The file describing the musical works in a BWARM data feed shall be called musicalworks.tsv and be referenced in the manifest file's TableType as MusicalWorks. It shall contain none, one or more data Records as follows:
Cell name | Definition | Data type | M/O/C | Example | |
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1 |
| The identifier of the musical work Record,which shall be internally unique to the BWARM data feed. This may be the primary key for the Record in the BWARM data feed sender’s musical works database table (see Figure 2). | String | M |
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2 |
| The International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC) as defined in ISO 15707 identifying the musical work that is the subject of this Record. An ISWC comprises three parts: the letter "T", followed by nine digits and then one check digit. | String | O |
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3 |
| The title of the musical work that is the subject of this Record. | String | M |
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4 |
| The identifier as defined in IETF RfC 5646 of the language and script used for the The values for language and script are provided as | String | O |
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5 |
| A musical work identifier which identifies the musical work which is the subject of this Record within the catalog of its composer. Such an identifier is typically used for classical music and often allocated at the time of creation or publication by the composer or the music publisher. | String | O |
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6 |
| A standardised musical work identifier which identifies the musical work which is the subject of this Record within the catalog of its composer. Such an identifier is typically used for classical music and often allocated by a musicologist after the composer’s death. For example, "K" numbers for Koechel's catalog of Mozart compositions. | Multiple String | O |
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7 |
| The duration of the musical work which is the subject of this Record when it is normally performed or recorded. | Duration | O |
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8 |
| A flag indicating whether or not the musical work which is the subject of this Record has right shares that are in dispute between two or more rights controllers in which case the value is true or not in which case the value is false. | Boolean | M |
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9 |
| A territory in which the musical work which is the subject of this Record is in the public domain where the value is one or more Public domain is a term used to express the fact that the musical work is no longer protected by copyright. | Multiple AVS: TerritoryCode | O |
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10 |
| A flag indicating whether the musical work which is the subject of this Record is an arrangement of a traditional musical work in which case the value is | Boolean | M |
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11 |
| Under the terms of Sections 203 and 304 of the US Copyright Act it is possible for the ownership of a musical work to revert to the composer/writer of the work. In such circumstances where the musical work that is the subject of this Record is a post-reversion musical work the BWARM data feed sender may choose to identify both “versions” of the musical work. In such circumstances this Cell contains the proprietary identifier of the data feed sender for the post-reversion work and may be a foreign key to that record in the BWARM data feed sender’s musical works database table (see Figure 2) that enables the data feed sender of the BWARM data feed to point from the pre-reverted musical work which is the subject of this Record to the | String | C |
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12 |
| The date on which the musical work that is the subject of this Record has or will revert under the terms of US statutory reversion rights. This Cell is mandatory if a value is provided in the | Date | C |
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13 |
| A flag indicating whether the musical work which is the subject of this Record is made up of two or more recognised musical works, in which case the value is A value in this Cell only needs to be provided if the musical work is, for example, a medley or a musical work with samples, which is known as a composite work. | Boolean | O |
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Where a musical works file needs to communicate data about musical works that have undergone US statutory reversions this can be dealt with in two ways:
By creating data about two musical works where one set of data describes the musical work pre-reversion and the other set describes the musical work post-reversion; or
By providing data describing different right shares with different validity periods where one describes the right shares of the musical work pre-reversion and the other set describes the right shares post-reversion.
Given the data structure limitations of most copyright repertoire systems, the common approach is (a). The determination of which parties should receive royalties in relation to a musical work that has reverted which is reported in a BWARM data feed is determined by whether the date of the applicable rights grant (typically a license date) falls before or after the effective date of the reversion, which is the value in the UsStatutoryReversionDate Cell described above.