JPH11205256A - Royalty management device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and also reasonably manage secondary royalty of a commercial record by storing broadcasting data which includes a broadcasted program title, the broadcasted hour, the titles of broadcasted music and the copyright holder of the music and extracting and outputting broadcasting data in a period that is designated by a prescribed group from stored broadcasting data. SOLUTION: A broadcasting data inputting part 14 inputs broadcasting data such as broadcasted program titles, broadcasting dates, broadcasting hour, music titles, CD titles, singers, songwriters, composers and persons who arrange music. A broadcasting businessman controlling part 16 rearranges inputted broadcasting data in order of broadcasting dates and broadcasting hours and stores them in a broadcasting data storing part 18. The part 18 is retrieved based on a designated period that is designated by a designated period inputting part 20 and broadcasting data that corresponds to the designated period is retrieved and extracted. Thus, broadcasting businessmen can easily get broadcasting data to pay a secondary royalty.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a copyright management device for managing a secondary usage fee of a commercial record, which is one of the copyright fees.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Under copyright law, when a commercial record is used for radio broadcasting, television broadcasting or cable broadcasting,
The right to receive secondary usage fees is granted to copyright holders such as performers and record creators.

Conventionally, the method of collecting the secondary usage fee is as follows.

[0004] First, broadcasting companies such as radio and television broadcasting stations and cable broadcasting are required to obtain copyrights from the Japan Music Copyright Association, etc., which are licensed by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs under the Act on Copyright Mediation Services. A comprehensive agreement on secondary royalties is made to a rights management organization (hereinafter simply referred to as a management organization), and annual secondary royalties are paid collectively.

[0005] Then, the broadcaster operates in a period designated by the management organization (for example, one week out of three months).
It records the broadcasted program, the title of the music used in the program, and the copyright holder such as the lyricist, composer, and arranger of the song, and notifies the management organization of the broadcast data.

[0006] In addition, the management organization distributes secondary usage fees to the respective copyright holders based on the broadcast data notified of the secondary usage fees collected from a plurality of broadcasters. .

[0007]

However, the above-mentioned method of collecting the secondary usage fee has the following problems.

First, in a broadcasting station, staff such as a director of a program records broadcast data during a period designated by a management organization and notifies the knitting section or the like. It was necessary to collect the data and notify the management organization.

[0009] In addition, the management organization calculates the distribution amount based on the broadcast data notified from the broadcasting station. However, the copyright holder notified in the broadcast data is not always accurate. For example, there may be a case where a singer, a lyricist, and a composer are notified for one song, but an arranger is not notified. As a result, the secondary royalties will not be distributed to the arranger, so it is necessary for the management organization to correctly confirm the copyright holder for the song again, and this operation is also very troublesome.

[0010] In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a copyright management device capable of easily and rationally managing the secondary usage fee of a commercial record.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a royalties management apparatus for reproducing a commercial record on which music such as a commercially available record, a CD, a DVD, an analog cassette tape, a digital cassette tape, and an MD is recorded. When a broadcaster broadcasts music recorded on a commercial record in a program such as radio, television, or cable broadcasting, the broadcaster manages broadcast data for paying a secondary usage fee for the broadcasted music. A royalty management device, including the broadcasted program name, the broadcast time of the program, the title of the broadcasted music, and a copyright owner such as a singer, lyricist, composer, or arranger of the song. Broadcast data input means for inputting broadcast data, broadcast data storage means for storing broadcast data input by the input means, and broadcast data for a period designated by a predetermined organization A broadcast data extraction means for extracting from the broadcast data storage means, in which the more the broadcast data output means for outputting the broadcast data in the specified period by the broadcast data extraction means.

[0012] With this copyright fee management device, the broadcaster can provide a program name, a broadcast time, a used song name,
A copyright owner such as a lyricist, a composer, an arranger, etc. is input to the broadcast data input means. When a period designated by a predetermined organization is designated, the broadcast data extracting means extracts the broadcast data in the designated period, and the broadcast data output means outputs necessary broadcast data.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a copyright management apparatus,
A copyright fee management device for distributing secondary usage fees of music related to commercial records on which music such as commercially available records, CDs, DVDs, analog cassette tapes, digital cassette tapes, and MDs are recorded to copyright holders. Total amount calculating means for calculating the total amount of the secondary usage fee collected from the broadcaster, the title of the music for each of the commercial records, and the copyright holder such as a singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, etc. A copyright holder data storage unit storing copyright holder data including: a broadcasted program name notified from each of the broadcasters;
Broadcast data including the broadcast time of the program, the title of the broadcasted music, the singer, lyricist, composer, and arranger of the song, and the copyright holder stored in the copyright holder data storage means. Based on the data, a copyright owner search means for searching for an accurate copyright owner for the broadcasted song, a copyright owner determined based on the copyright owner search means, and based on the notified broadcast data. And a distribution amount determining means for determining a distribution amount for distributing the total amount calculated by the total amount calculating means to each copyright owner according to a certain rule.

[0014] In this copyright management device, the copyright holder search means compares the broadcast data notified from the broadcaster with the copyright data stored in the copyright data storage means, and broadcasts the broadcast data. Search for the exact copyright owner in the song stored in the data. The distribution amount determining means distributes the total amount of the secondary usage fee collected from each broadcaster to each copyright owner based on the retrieved exact copyright owner and the broadcast data.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS.
A description will be given based on FIG. This embodiment includes a broadcaster management device 10 and a group management device 12.

Broadcaster Management Apparatus 10 First, the broadcaster management apparatus 10 will be described.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a broadcaster management apparatus 10 for a broadcaster performing radio, television, cable broadcasting, and the like. FIG. 2 shows the contents of broadcast data in the apparatus 10.

As described above, the broadcaster provides programs in radio broadcasting, television broadcasting, cable broadcasting, and the like.
Broadcast music in the program. This music is performed using commercial records such as commercially available records, CDs, DVDs, analog cassette tapes, digital cassette tapes, and MDs. As described above, music is stored in this commercial record, and each music has a copyright holder such as a singer, a lyricist, a composer, an arranger, a performer, and the like. Then, when these musics are broadcast, it is necessary to pay a secondary usage fee to the copyright holder. Therefore, the broadcaster management device 10 exists.

In the broadcast data input section 14, a broadcasted program name, a broadcast date, a broadcast time, a song name used in the program, a title of a CD storing the song, a singer, a lyricist, a composer, an arranger And other information.

The input method includes a program name, a broadcast date,
The broadcast time is stored in advance, and when the program staff inputs the program name and CD title, song title, singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, and other information, the prestored broadcast date and broadcast time are also stored. It is to be stored at the same time. This broadcast data is shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, the broadcast date is January 12, 1998, the broadcast time is 20:00 to 22:00, the program name is "Night Telephone Request", and the song played in this program is , CD "ABCD", "Aiue", "Kakikuke", "Sashisushi", and the singer is "Patentaro".

However, with this input method, since the staff of the program needs to input the song title and all other copyright holders from the CD title, the following method may be employed.

When a CD number provided for each CD and a song number of the CD are input, a CD title, a song title, a singer, and the like may be automatically input.
In this case, C
D's title, song title, singer, lyricist, composer, arranger,
Other information is stored in the storage means. Then, a series of information is called from this storage means.

Further, in FIG. 2, a production type for discriminating whether a program is produced independently by a broadcaster or produced at a key station is also stored. This is because the broadcasting company itself does not need to pay the secondary usage fee of the program produced at the key station to collectively pay at the key station.

In this way, the broadcast data is input to the broadcast data input unit 14.

The broadcaster control unit 16 rearranges the broadcast data input from the broadcast data input unit 14 in the order of broadcast date and broadcast time as shown in FIG. Let it.

Next, a designated period designated by the management organization is input from the designated period input section 20. This designated period is a period designated by the Japan Music Copyright Association, and in the case of a so-called private broadcast station, one week out of three months is designated. For example, between January and March, the period is from January 10 to January 17.

The broadcaster control unit 16 searches the broadcast data storage unit 18 based on the designated period designated by the designated period input unit 20, and retrieves and extracts broadcast data corresponding to the designated period. In the case of the above example, January 10-January 17
The broadcast data up to the date is extracted and output from the broadcast data output unit 22. The broadcast data output unit 22 may print out the broadcast data in the designated period on paper,
Alternatively, the data may be output to a data storage medium such as a floppy disk (FD). Furthermore, when notifying the management organization, it may be output by communication as electronic data such as the Internet.

A system that can realize the broadcaster management apparatus 10 may be an ordinary personal computer. The designated period input unit 20 and the broadcast data input unit 14 can be realized by a keyboard, and the broadcast data output unit 22 can be realized by a printer or the like. realizable.

Group Management Apparatus 12 Next, the group management apparatus 12 will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the group management apparatus 12 used in a management organization such as the Japan Music Copyright Association. The group management apparatus 12 includes a total amount calculation unit 24, a broadcast data reception unit 26, and a management organization. It is composed of a control unit 28, a copyright data storage unit 30, a distribution amount output unit 32, a distribution ratio data storage unit 34, a copyright holder score data storage unit 36, a total score data storage unit 38, and a distribution amount data storage unit 40. You. (Total Amount Calculation Unit 24) The total amount calculation unit 24 calculates the total amount of the secondary usage fee collected from each broadcaster.
Usually, an annual contract is made between the management organization and the broadcaster and paid every year. Therefore, the total amount of the secondary usage fee for one year is calculated by the total amount calculation unit 24. (Broadcast Data Receiving Unit 26) The broadcast data receiving unit 26 receives broadcast data for a designated period notified from each broadcaster. In this case, the broadcast data receiving unit 26 receives electronic data from each broadcaster through FD, the Internet, or the like. The contents of the broadcast data are as shown in FIG. 2 as described above. (Copyright data storage unit 30) This copyright data storage unit 3
0, as shown in FIG. 4, stores a song title, an accurate singer, a lyricist, a composer, an arranger, and other copyright holders for each commercial record, for example, for each CD. (Distribution Amount Output Unit 32) The distribution amount output unit 32 outputs the calculated distribution amount. The output may be printed out on paper or output to a display device such as a display. (Distribution Ratio Data Storage Unit 34) Distribution Ratio Data Storage Unit 3
Reference numeral 4 stores distribution ratio data as shown in FIG. This distribution ratio data stores the distribution ratio of the secondary usage fee for each type of copyright holder. For example, in the case of a singer, a distribution ratio of 0.3 is given. (Copyright holder score data storage unit 36) As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the copyright holder score data storage unit 36 stores the copyright holder score necessary to calculate the distribution amount for each copyright holder. Things. (Total score data storage unit 38) Total score data storage unit 38
As shown in FIG. 8, the total score of the copyright holders of each copyright holder is calculated and stored. (Distribution amount data storage unit 40) Distribution amount data storage unit 4
0, as shown in FIG. 9, calculates and stores the distribution amount for each copyright holder. (Management organization control unit 28) The management organization control unit 28 includes the total amount calculation unit 24, the broadcast data reception unit 26, the copyright data storage unit 30, the distribution amount output unit 32, the distribution ratio data storage unit 34, the copyright The user score data storage unit 36, the total score data storage unit 38, and the distribution amount data storage unit 40 are controlled.

The operation of the management organization control unit 28 is described below.
First, a brief description will be given.

The broadcast data receiving unit 26 extracts the title and song title of the CD from the received broadcast data, and searches the copyright data storage unit 30 for the exact copyright holder corresponding to the title and song title of the CD. come. This is because a copyright holder such as a singer or a lyricist is temporarily stored in the broadcast data received by the broadcast data receiving unit 26, but this copyright holder is not always accurate.

Next, the number of times the same song has been broadcast is searched from the broadcast data received from each broadcaster. For example,
In the case of a hit song, the number of times increases, and an old song that does not hit very often has a small number of broadcasts.

The number of broadcasts for each song determined in this way,
The distribution amount of the secondary usage fee is determined based on the correct author.

The distribution amount calculated in this way is output to the distribution amount output unit 32.

The above group management apparatus 12 can also be realized by a personal computer or the like. (Processing Flow of Group Management Apparatus 12) The above processing flow of the group management apparatus 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In step 1, an annual secondary usage fee is collected from a broadcaster.

In step 2, the total amount of the annual secondary usage fee collected in step 1 is calculated by the total amount calculation unit 24.

In step 3, the broadcast data receiver 26 receives the broadcast data notified by each broadcaster.

In step 4, the correct copyright holder for each song stored in the broadcast data is searched with reference to the copyright data storage unit 30. In this case, the management organization control unit 28 extracts a CD title and a song title from the broadcast data, and calls the copyright holder corresponding to the extracted CD title and song title from the copyright data storage unit 30. is there.

In step 5, the broadcast data receiving unit 2
6 uses the received broadcast data to calculate how many times each song has been used.

In step 6, based on the exact copyright owner called from the copyright data storage unit 30 and the number of times each song has been broadcast, the number of times the song belonging to each copyright owner has been broadcast is determined. calculate. In this way, the title and the number of broadcasts for each copyright holder in FIG. 6 are calculated.

In step 7, the copyright holder score for each copyright holder is calculated. This calculation method is performed as follows in the case of the copyright owner “Taro Tokkyo” in FIG.

Since the song title “Aie” has 105 broadcasts and Taro is a singer, the distribution ratio corresponds to the distribution ratio corresponding to the category “Singer” in the distribution ratio data storage unit 3.
4 and sums the distribution ratio to the number of broadcasts. For example, in the case of the song title “Aieue”, the score is 105 × 0.3, and the score is 31.5. Then, the score is calculated for each song in this manner, and the total sum of the calculated scores is set as the copyright holder score. In the case of Taro Patent, the copyright holder score is 1,568.9.

FIG. 7 shows a case where the copyright holder is “Jiro Jiro”.
5.8.

As described above, for every copyright holder,
The copyright holder score is calculated, and the copyright holder score data storage unit 36 is calculated.
To memorize.

At step 8, all the copyright holder scores are called out from the copyright holder score data storage unit 36, and FIG.
Create the total score data shown in. Calculate the total score by adding the copyright holder scores of all the copyright holders. Then, the total score data is stored in the total score data storage unit 38.

In step 9, the distribution amount for each copyright holder is calculated. This calculation method is based on the total amount calculation unit 24.
, The total score is called from the total score data storage unit 38, and the copyright holder score of each copyright holder is first called from the copyright holder score data storage unit 36. Then, the distribution amount is calculated by the following equation.

Distribution amount = total amount × copyright holder score ÷ total score In this way, the distribution amount is calculated for each copyright holder.
It is stored in the distribution amount data storage unit 40.

In step 10, the distribution amount for each copyright holder stored in the distribution amount data storage unit 40 is
Output from the distribution amount output unit 32.

By calculating in this way, the distribution amount of each copyright holder can be easily calculated.

In the distribution of the secondary usage fee, in addition to the declaration based on the broadcast data from the broadcaster, if the copyright owner individually broadcasts his / her own music, the application will be made if the application is made. Can receive. For example, for a song or the like that is very unlikely to be broadcast, the song may not be broadcast during the period specified by the management organization. In this case, the distribution amount is paid based on the application. Then, the copyright owner score data storage unit 36 stores the title of the music, the number of broadcasts, and the classification of the copyright owner based on the content of the application. As a result, at the same time as calculating the distribution amount from the broadcast data, the applied data is also added to the copyright holder score data, so that it is possible to distribute an appropriate secondary usage fee.

[0053]

As described above, according to the copyright fee management device of the first aspect, the broadcaster can easily obtain the broadcast data for paying the secondary usage fee.

According to the copyright management device of the second aspect, the secondary usage fee distributed to each copyright holder can be easily calculated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a broadcaster management device.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the contents of broadcast data.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a group management device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing contents of copyright data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing contents of distribution ratio data.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the contents of the copyright holder score data of Taro Taro.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing contents of copyright holder score data of Jiro Jiro.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of total score data.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing contents of distribution amount data.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a process in the group management device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Broadcaster management apparatus 12 Group management apparatus 14 Broadcast data input section 16 Broadcaster control section 18 Broadcast data storage section 20 Designated period input section 22 Broadcast data output section 24 Total amount calculation section 26 Broadcast data receiving section 28 Management group control Unit 30 Copyright data storage unit 32 Distribution amount output unit 34 Distribution ratio data storage unit 36 Copyright owner score data storage unit 38 Total score data storage unit 40 Distribution amount data storage unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A commercial record on which music such as a record, a CD, a DVD, an analog cassette tape, a digital cassette tape, and an MD is recorded, and the commercial record is recorded in a program such as a radio, a television, and a cable broadcast. When a broadcaster broadcasts recorded music, the copyright management device manages broadcast data for paying a secondary usage fee for the broadcasted music. Broadcast data input means for inputting broadcast data including a broadcast time, a song name of the broadcasted music, and a copyright owner such as a singer, a lyricist, a composer, an arranger of the song, and input by the input means. Broadcast data storage means for storing broadcast data; and a broadcast data extracting means for extracting the broadcast data from the broadcast data storage means for a period designated by a predetermined organization. If, royalty management apparatus characterized by comprising further a broadcast data output means for outputting the broadcast data in the specified period by the broadcast data extraction means. 2. A copyright management apparatus for distributing secondary usage fees for music related to commercial records, such as commercially available records, CDs, DVDs, analog cassette tapes, digital cassette tapes, and MDs, to copyright holders. A total amount calculating means for calculating a total amount of secondary usage fees collected from a plurality of broadcasters; a song name of music for each of the commercial records; a singer, a lyricist, and a composer of the song A copyright holder data storing unit that stores copyright holder data including a copyright holder such as an arranger, a broadcast program name notified from each broadcaster, a broadcast time of the program, Song name, singer of the song,
Based on the broadcast data including the copyright holders such as the lyricist, composer, and arranger and the copyright holder data of the song stored in the copyright holder data storage means, the exact copyright of the song is determined. Copyright holder search means for searching for a copyright holder; a copyright owner determined based on the copyright holder search means;
The distribution amount determining means for determining the distribution amount for distributing the total amount calculated by the total amount calculation unit based on the notified broadcast data to each copyright owner in accordance with a certain rule. Characteristic copyright management device.