Musicians copyright on YouTube: Regulation of pecuniary distribution
Copyright. Musical work. YouTube.
This dissertation aims to present an overview of musical copyrights and how pecuniary payments are collected and distributed by the Central Office of Collection and Distribution (COCD), focusing on sponsored lives. Thus, the dissertation text introduces the theme with Brazilian copyright legislation, clarifies how the protection of musical works occurs, and contextualizes the conflict between COCD and YouTube with the parallel and retroactive charge of sponsored lives. The research will have an essentially qualitative character, with the description and interpretation of the phenomenon studied, with an emphasis on documentary study; at the same time, it will be necessary to cross the surveys with all the bibliographic research already carried out. As a technological product, there is a teaching material outside PROFNIT. The expected results are that all communities, musical, academic, and society as a whole, benefit from the knowledge generated about the COCD attributions and the forms of retribution of authors and holders of related rights of musical works, mainly for the public performance of his works on the internet and video platforms such as YouTube. As for the conclusions expected at the end of the research, it is intended to reach a synthesis of whether there is a charge for musical performances on video platforms, what are the limits of the functional independence of COCD to create standards, if there is a double charge by COCD and if it is legal to differentiate costs for sponsored and non-sponsored lives.