It defines various packages of performers’ rights that the producer can acquire, according to how he/she foresees the programme’s primary use, within the basic fee. Payment of the basic fee also gives the producer the musician’s consent to the full range of secondary uses, subject to payments as and when such uses take place in the form of royalties.
It deals with payments for playing more than one instrument (doubling), for transporting large instruments to the studio (porterage), for appearing in costume, and for most other things that a musician might be required to do in addition to turning up and playing. It specifies rates for overtime, and for working hours or days that are regarded as unsocial.
It
defines what the music recorded under the engagement may be used for, ranging
from the music that will appear over the titles of every episode of a long-running
series or serial to incidental sound-track music for a one-off documentary
that will be heard only once.
