6.8 Musical work right shares file
The file describing the musical works’ right shares associated with the musical works in the musical works file in a BWARM data feed shall be called musicalworkrightshares.tsv and be referenced in the manifest file's TableType as MusicalWorkRightShares. It shall contain none, one or more data Records as follows:
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| The identifier of the musical work right share 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 work right shares database table (see Figure 2). | String | M |
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| The identifier of the musical work Record in the musical works file of which the musical work right share is the subject of this Record. This may be a foreign key to that record in the BWARM data feed sender’s musical works database table (see Figure 2). | String | M |
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| The identifier of the party Record in the parties file of the party controlling and/or collecting royalties in respect of the right share that is the subject of this Record. This may be a foreign key to that record in the BWARM data feed sender’s parties database table (see Figure 2). This Cell is mandatory unless the value in the | String | C |
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| A term describing the role played by the party controlling and/or collecting royalties in respect of the right share that is the subject of this Record. This Cell is mandatory if the value in the | AVS: PartyRole | C |
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| The percentage of the rights described in the whole musical work of which the right share that is the subject of this Record is a part that is administered and/or controlled by the party in the Record identified by the value in the A quarter share is represented by | Decimal | O |
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| A term describing the fundamental type of the musical work right share that is the subject of the Record. The value of this Cell is one of the five values defined in the relevant AVS which may in turn be of assistance in deriving what the value should be for the
| AVS: RightShareType | O |
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| A term describing a broad type of exploitation of copyright in the musical work covered by the right share that is the subject of this Record. | Multiple AVS: RightsCoverage_MWDR | M |
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| The date that marks the beginning of the validity period of the musical work right share that is the subject of this Record in ISO 8601 format: It is mandatory that there is a value provided in at least one of the If both a | Date | C |
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| The date that marks the end of the validity period of the musical work right share that is the subject of this Record in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD. It is mandatory that there is a value provided in at least one of the If both a ValidityStartDate and | Date | C |
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| The identifier of a musical work right share Record where that musical work right share preceded the musical work right share which is the subject of this Record. This identifier enables different instances of musical work right shares for which Records exist in the musical work right shares file, to be linked. This may be a foreign key to the record in the BWARM data feed sender’s musical work right shares database table (see Figure 2). For example, a musical work collection share associated with one party (usually a music publisher) may point to a previous musical work collection share associated with a different party or to the original publisher share associated with yet another different party or to a musical work manuscript share associated with the writer. Similarly, an original publisher share associated with a music publisher can point to a musical work manuscript share associated with the writer. | Multiple String | O |
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| A code which identifies the territory for which the musical work right share that is the subject of this Record applies with the value being one or more of the | Multiple AVS: TerritoryCode | O |
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| A term describing a more specific type of use of copyright in the musical work covered by the right share that is the subject of this Record than those covered in the | Multiple AVS: UseType_BWARM | M |
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The musical work right shares file shall also be used to communicate musical work right shares that are described as copyright control. While a recipient of a BWARM data feed can derive the fact that copyright control applies to a musical work right share of a particular musical work by virtue of the fact that the identified musical work right shares do not add up to 100%, the sender of the BWARM data feed shall indicate this fact explicitly to avoid each recipient of the BWARM data feed having to apply their own algorithm to determine the overall musical work right share status. This shall be achieved by specifying a RightShareType of CopyrightControlShare in the relevant Record for that musical work right share. Although the percentage of the copyright control musical work right share may subsequently be split between more than one rights controller, thus creating more than one subsequent musical work right share, initially, only one such RightShareType of CopyrightControlShare shall be specified.
An example of a musical work right share Record communicating that 50% of that musical work right share is a CopyrightControlShare would be:
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In such circumstances, the PartyRecordId must be left empty because there is no rights controller party identified. The RightsType, TerritoryCode and UseType Cells may contain values from the usual AVSs if applicable.
In some cases, a musical work may not only have no known rights controllers, but also no known writers. This may be the case for some traditional songs which, in any case, are likely to be in the public domain.
In some cases, a musical work may no longer be protected by copyright. Therefore, for each known writer of such a musical work the RightShareType Cell would have a value of MusicalWorkManuscriptShare and the RightSharePercentage would have a value of 0. The public domain status would be indicated at musical work level using the TerritoryOfPublicDomain Cell.
An example for a writer's right share that has been in the public domain since 2002 for the US:
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