JPH11238088A - Copyright charge managing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and reasonably manage a music copyright charge for a commercial phonograph record by composing the device of a broadcast data extracting means for extraction from a broadcast data storage means and a broadcast data output means which outputs broadcast data in an extracted specific period. SOLUTION: At a broadcast data input part 14, the name, broadcasting day, and broadcasting time of a broadcast program, the name of music used for the program, the title, singer, music writer, and arranger of a CD where the music is recorded, and other information are inputted. A broadcaster control part 16 stores broadcast data inputted from a broadcast data input part 14 in a broadcast data storage part 18. Then a period specified by a management group is inputted from a specified period input part 20. On the basis of the period specified from the specified period input part 20, retrieval from the broadcast specified period input part 20 is performed to retrieve and extract broadcast data corresponding to the specified period. Then the extracted broadcast data are outputted from a broadcast data output part 22.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a copyright management apparatus for managing a music copyright of a commercial record.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Under copyright law, when a commercial record is used for radio broadcasting, television broadcasting or cable broadcasting,
Authors such as performers and record makers are granted the right to receive music copyright fees.

Conventionally, the method of collecting the music copyright fee is as follows.

[0004] First, a broadcaster of a radio broadcast or a television broadcast, a broadcaster of a cable broadcast or the like, or a cable broadcaster (hereinafter simply referred to as a “broadcaster”) is required to comply with the law concerning the mediation business relating to copyright. We make a comprehensive contract regarding music copyright fees with a copyright management organization such as the Japan Music Copyright Association (hereinafter referred to simply as "the management organization"), which is licensed by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Annual music copyright fees are collectively paid.

[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, the author of the song, such as the lyricist, composer, and arranger, and notifies the management organization of the broadcast data.

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

[0007]

However, the above-mentioned method of collecting a music copyright 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 broadcast station. However, the author notified to the broadcast data is not always accurate. For example, there may be a case where a singer, a lyric writer, and a composer are notified to one song, but an arranger is not notified. As a result, music royalties are not distributed to the arranger, so that the management organization needs to confirm the creator correctly for the song again, and this operation is also very troublesome.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a copyright management device capable of easily and rationally managing the music copyright 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 or a cable broadcaster broadcasts music recorded on a commercial record in a program such as a radio broadcast, a television broadcast, or a cable broadcast, a music copyright fee of the broadcasted music is paid. Copyright management device for managing broadcast data for the broadcast program, the broadcast program name, the broadcast time of the program, the music name of the broadcast music, the singer, lyricist, composer, and arranger of the music Broadcast data input means for inputting broadcast data including a performer such as a writer or a writer made by a record maker, and storing the broadcast data input by the input means. Transmission data storage means, broadcast data extraction means for extracting the broadcast data for a period designated by a predetermined organization from the broadcast data storage means, and broadcast data for outputting the broadcast data for the designated period provided by the broadcast data extraction means And output means.

[0012] With this copyright fee management device, the broadcaster can provide a program name, a broadcast time, a used song name,
Writers such as lyricists, composers, and arrangers are 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 management device for distributing music copyright fees for 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 authors. A total amount calculating means for calculating a total amount of music copyright fees collected from a broadcaster or a cable broadcaster, a song name of music for each of the commercial records, a singer, a lyricist, a composer of the song, An author data storage unit storing author data including a performer such as an arranger, or an author composed of a record creator, a broadcasted program name notified by each broadcaster, and broadcast of the program Time, song title of the broadcasted music,
Author search means for searching for an accurate author of the song based on broadcast data including the author of the song and author data of the song stored in the author data storage means; A distribution amount for distributing the total amount calculated by the total amount calculation unit based on the notified broadcast data and the total amount calculated by the total amount calculation unit to each author according to a certain rule, based on the author determined based on the author search unit; And distribution amount determination means for determining the distribution amount.

[0014] In this copyright charge management device, the writer search means compares the broadcast data notified from the broadcaster with the copyright data stored in the copyright data storage means, and compares the broadcast data. To find the exact author of the song stored in. The distribution amount determining means distributes the total amount of the music copyright fee collected from each broadcaster to each author based on the retrieved accurate author 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 broadcasting, television broadcasting, 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 includes, for example, a performer such as a singer, a lyricist, a composer, an arranger, a performer, or an author composed of a record creator. Exists. When broadcasting these music, it is necessary to pay a music copyright fee to the author. 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, this input method requires the staff of the program to input the title of the song and all other authors from the title of the CD. Therefore, 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 music copyright fee for the program produced at the key station in order 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 in writing. Alternatively, the data may be output to a data storage medium such as a floppy disk (FD). Then, the output document or data storage medium is mailed to the management organization.

Further, the broadcast data output section 22 may not only output the broadcast data as described above, but also notify the management organization of the broadcast data. That is, notification can be made by communication using electronic data using a computer communication system such as the Internet. In the case of this communication, a broadcaster identifier for identifying the broadcaster is transmitted together with the broadcast data.

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. The control unit 28 includes a copyright data storage unit 30, a distribution amount output unit 32, a distribution ratio data storage unit 34, an author score data storage unit 36, a total score data storage unit 38, and a distribution amount data storage unit 40. .

Total Price Calculation Unit 24 The total price calculation unit 24 calculates the total amount of music copyright fees 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 music copyright 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 broadcasting company. In this case, the broadcast data receiving unit 26 receives electronic data from each broadcaster through a computer communication system such as FD or the Internet. The contents of the broadcast data are as shown in FIG. 2 as described above.

When receiving as electronic data through the computer communication system, a broadcaster identifier for identifying the broadcaster is received, and it is determined from where the broadcaster was transmitted.

When broadcast data is sent in writing, the management organization inputs the broadcast data as shown in FIG.

Copyright Data Storage Unit 30 As shown in FIG. 4, the copyright data storage unit 30 stores, for each commercial record, for example, for each CD, a song title, an accurate singer of the song, a lyricist, and a composer. , Arrangers, and other authors.

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 The distribution ratio data storage unit 34 stores distribution ratio data as shown in FIG. The distribution ratio data stores the distribution ratio of the music copyright fee for each type of author. For example, in the case of a singer, a distribution ratio of 0.3 is given.

Author Score Data Storage Unit 36 As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the author score data storage unit 36 stores the author score necessary to calculate the distribution amount for each author. .

Total score data storage unit 38 The total score data storage unit 38 calculates and stores the total score of the author's score of each author, as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 9, the distribution amount data storage unit 40 calculates and stores the distribution amount for each author.

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, It controls the author score data storage unit 36, the total score data storage unit 38, and the distribution amount data storage unit 40.

Regarding the operation of the management organization control unit 28,
First, a brief description will be given.

The broadcast data receiving unit 26 extracts the title and the title of the CD from the received broadcast data, and searches the copyright data storage unit 30 for the correct author corresponding to the title and the title of the CD. . This is because the writer such as a singer or a lyricist is temporarily stored in the broadcast data received by the broadcast data receiving unit 26, but this writer 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,
Determine the distribution amount of music royalties based on the exact author.

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

The above group management device 12 can also be realized by a personal computer or the like.

The processing flow of the group management apparatus 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In step 1, an annual music copyright fee is collected from a broadcaster.

In step 2, the total amount of the music copyright fees collected in step 1 for the year is calculated by the total amount calculation unit 24.

In step 3, the broadcast data notified by each broadcaster is received by the broadcast data receiving unit 26.

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

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 correct author 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 author has been broadcast is calculated. . Thus, the song title and the number of broadcasts for each author in FIG. 6 are calculated.

In step 7, an author score is calculated for each author. This calculation method is performed as follows in the case of the author “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 way, and the total sum of the calculated scores is set as the author score. In the case of Patent Taro, the author score is 1,
568.9.

FIG. 7 shows a case where the author is “Jiro Jiro”, and the same calculation is performed, and the author score is 2,875.8.
Becomes

As described above, the author score is calculated for each author and stored in the author score data storage unit 36.

In step 8, all author scores are called from the author score data storage unit 36, and total score data shown in FIG. 8 is created. Calculate the total score by summing the author scores of all authors. Then, the total score data is stored in the total score data storage unit 38.

In step 9, the amount of distribution for each author is calculated. In this calculation method, the total amount is called from the total amount calculation unit 24, the total score is called from the total score data storage unit 38, and the creator score of each writer is first called from the writer score data storage unit 36. Then, the distribution amount is calculated by the following equation.

The distribution amount = total amount × author score ÷ total score In this way, the distribution amount is calculated for each author and stored in the distribution amount data storage unit 40.

In step 10, the distribution amount for each author 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 author can be easily calculated.

In the distribution of music copyright fees, besides a declaration based on broadcast data from a broadcaster, if the author individually broadcasts his or her own music, applying for the application will reduce the distribution amount. 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 author score data storage unit 36 stores the title of the music, the number of broadcasts, and the classification of the author 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 added to the creator score data, so that an appropriate distribution of the music copyright fee can be performed.

[0067]

As described above, according to the copyright fee management device of the first aspect, it is possible for a broadcaster to easily obtain broadcast data for paying a music copyright fee.

According to the copyright fee management device of the second aspect, it is possible to easily calculate the music copyright fee distributed to each author.

[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 author score data of Taro Tokkyo.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing contents of author 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 Author score data storage unit 38 Total score data storage unit 40 Distribution amount data storage unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A radio broadcast using commercial records on which music such as commercially available records, CDs, DVDs, analog cassette tapes, digital cassette tapes, and MDs are recorded.
For programs such as TV broadcasts and cable broadcasts, when broadcasters or cable broadcasters broadcast the music recorded in their commercial records, manage the broadcast data for paying music copyright fees for the broadcasted music. A copyright fee management device, wherein the broadcasted program name, the broadcast time of the program, the song name of the broadcasted music, and a performer such as a singer, lyricist, composer, arranger of the song, or Broadcast data input means for inputting broadcast data including an author made by a record maker; broadcast data storage means for storing broadcast data input by the input means; and a broadcast for a period designated by a predetermined organization. Broadcast data extracting means for extracting data from the broadcast data storage means; A copyright management device characterized by comprising data output means. 2. A copyright fee management device for distributing music copyright fees for 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 authors. A total amount calculating means for calculating a total amount of music copyright fees collected from a plurality of broadcasters or cable broadcasters; a song title of music for each of the commercial records, a singer of the song, and a lyricist Data storage means storing author data including a performer such as an author, a composer, an arranger, or an author composed of a record creator; and a broadcasted program name notified from each broadcaster. Based on broadcast data including the broadcast time of the program, the title of the broadcasted music, the author of the music, and the author data of the music stored in the author data storage means. A writer search means for searching for an accurate creator of the song; a writer determined based on the writer search means; and a total calculated by the total amount calculation means based on the notified broadcast data. A copyright management apparatus, comprising: a distribution amount determining means for determining a distribution amount for distributing the amount to each author according to a predetermined rule.