Whose Song Is It Anyway?

Eve Horne - singer, songwriter, producer, executive director of the Music Producers Guild, founder of the Unheard Academy where she teaches female and non-binary people music production, and the host of the We Are The Unheard Podcast, amongst other things! 

In this episode we talk about Eve’s journey from BRIT School, being signed, touring with a girl group, to leaving the music industry and then returning with a massive come back and now doing all. the. things! Eve also talks about her recent ADHD and autism diagnosis. 

https://wearetheunheard.com/

https://www.instagram.com/eve_horne/?hl=en-gb

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/we-are-the-unheard/id1599492855

Here's a playlist of guest's answer to the last question: https://shorturl.at/ezLX4

This season is produced and hosted by Hayleigh Bosher www.instagram.com/hayleigh.bosher/

Edited by Eliza Kania twitter.com/elizakania

Dyvr is a musician, creative and activist working in the queer community and the founder of live music safe space, Sounds Queer. Dyvr talks about their experience of being in music, highlighting the challenges faced by non-binary and trans artists in the industry, sharing why they founded Sounds Queer and how that is creating a safe space for queer artists to grow.

https://www.instagram.com/dyvrofficial/

https://www.instagram.com/soundsqueersounds/?hl=en-gb

Here's a playlist of guest's answer to the last question: https://shorturl.at/ezLX4

This season is produced and hosted by Hayleigh Bosher www.instagram.com/hayleigh.bosher/

Edited by Eliza Kania twitter.com/elizakania

Vick Bain is the founder of the The F List and is currently completing her PhD at Queen Mary University of London in the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity looking at the experience of women in music. She was previously the Past President Independent Society of Musicians (ISM), the former CEO of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (the Ivor's Academy), and has been inducted into the Music Week Women in Music Awards Roll Of Honour and the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Music Powerlist.

In this episode Vick shares with us some initial insights from her PhD research and generally drawing from her wealth of experience in the music industry. We discuss the data, the pay gap and gender roles, and talk about both the challenges and the enablers for women and gender expansive people in the music industry.

https://thef-listmusic.uk/

https://vbain.co.uk/

Here's a playlist of guest's answer to the last question: https://shorturl.at/ezLX4

This season is produced and hosted by Hayleigh Bosher www.instagram.com/hayleigh.bosher/

Edited by Eliza Kania twitter.com/elizakania

Deputy Chief Executive at Help Musicians, Sarah Wood has been in the music industry around 30 years, so she draws on her breath of experience to discuss how things have changed overtime as a woman. We build on last week’s episode on the topic of coming back to work after having a child, Sarah’s experience was whilst working for a corporation rather than as a freelancer. We also talk about reflecting on your contribution, with a positive frame of mind to help build self-confidence and understanding your worth as well as up-skilling and believing in yourself to have the capacity to learn new things! 

Sarah also gives some insight on the music industry landscape and the importance of the Musicians Census project to better understand the barriers faced to better support a more inclusive industry. She sets out what Help Musicians are doing to better engage with female and gender expansive musicians and the positive impact of a targeted approach, offering practical suggestions on gathering insight, engaging with the results, pro-actively driving change and constantly evaluating.

https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/

https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/get-support/bullying-harasment

https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/about-us/news/take-the-first-ever-musicians-census

Here's a playlist of guest's answer to the last question: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2GEtEjJCghbMskOuFiDSq6?si=8cd4319c72684f4e

This season is produced and hosted by Hayleigh Bosher instagram.com/hayleigh.bosher/

Edited by Eliza Kania twitter.com/elizakania

Welcome to Season three of the podcast! This episode explains why this season is different and what to expect...

This season is produced and hosted by Hayleigh Bosher https://www.instagram.com/hayleigh.bosher/ 

Edited by Eliza Kania https://twitter.com/elizakania 

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios

Steve Tempest AKA DJ S.K.T is a DJ, Producer and Label Manager. In this episode we talk about music sampling (of the composition and/or the master), fair deals and arrangements for song splits and joint ownership when creating music. Steve also shares his experience with getting back to live gigs after the pandemic.

https://clubsweat.lnk.to/GotYourMoneyFa 

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Claire Batchelor is a Composer for TV, Documentary, Film and Brands. In this episode we talk about how composers can get paid for their work and Claire talks about her work with the Ivor's Academy on the Composers Against Buyouts campaign. She shares her experience as a composer and figuring out what a fair deal is, and we also discuss rights revocation. 

https://www.clairebatchelor.co.uk/ 

https://ivorsacademy.com/campaign/composers-against-buyouts/ 

https://musiciansunion.org.uk/ 

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Will Page is the former Chief Economist at Spotify and PRS, and author of Tarzan Economics. What's important about 285 miliseconds? Will reveals the psychology behind the Spotify Play button, and we discuss the pricing of streaming service subscriptions.

https://tarzaneconomics.com/

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Niclas Molinder is a Swedish songwriter and producer. He founded Session and the Music Rights Awareness Foundation working in collaboration with WIPO to form WIPO for Creators. Niclas explains what the identifiers are - essential information that artists and songwriters need to know about in order to get paid royalties! He tells us all about his company's free app, Session Studio, which helps songwriters and producers with their creative process and includes easy ways to keep track of identifiers, song splits and much more. 

https://www.sessionstudio.com

https://www.wipo.int/wipoforcreators/en/index.html 

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'Riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Des Agyekumhene is an artist manager, NFT consultant, and co-founder of Soga world - who did the first NFT project with Neo and assisted Aitch in launching his "NFT album". We talk about NFTs and what opportunities and challenges there are for artists in the NFT space, Des shares his refreshing perspective on these technologies.

https://soga.world/

https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/06/ten-things-to-know-about-nfts.html 

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'Riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Damien Riehl is a lawyer, musician and technologist. He talks to us about this project All The Music and we discuss the ‘you copied my song’ lawsuits. What should be copyright protected and how would that effect the legal test for copyright infringement claims? And why do these cases keep coming?

http://allthemusic.info/

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'Riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Roxanne de Bastion is a singer, songwriter and performer. She sits on the board of the Featured Artist Coalition and the perfomer board at PPL. In this episode Roxanne talks about her experience of making music and building her careeer, sharing the lessons that she learnt along the way. 

https://roxannedebastion.com/ 

https://thefac.org/

https://www.ppluk.com/ 

Producer and co-host: Hayleigh Bosher

Co-host: Jules O'riordan

Editor: Eliza Kania

Musicologist Christian Siddell explains what a musicologist does and how he became one, we also discuss what needs to be added to an out of copyright song in order for it to qualify as a new arrangement and Christian talks about one of the first cases he worked on - about the song Young at Heart recorded by The Bluebells.

Tom Kiehl is Deputy CEO and Director of Public Affairs at UK Music. In this episode Tom tells us what UK Music is about, how to get involved in the politics of the music industry, explains the practicalities of the process of a public consultation, such as the streaming inquiry, and what happened when UK Music took the government took court in Judicial Review in 2014 over the private copying exception. Lastly Tom talks about the impact of Brexit on copyright in the music industry.

Dennis Collopy has been in the music industry for 45 years, from his first contract with David Bowie to being an academic now at the University of Hertfordshire. Dennis talks about his research into illegal stream ripping, the data issues in the music industry, tells us the types of problems that artists and performers have with the admin that allows royalties payments. We then discuss artificial intelligence and some of the key issues for copyright and music, including authorship and infringement.

Imogen Heap is a singer-songwriter and we can certainly also describe her as an entrepreneur and pioneer! In this episode Imogen talks about what drives her in creativity and innovation, and shares with us her latest endevours with blockchain, artificial intelligence, mycelia and The Creative Passport (www.creativepassport.net). 

David Martin, CEO of the Featured Artist Coalition (FAC), talks about the impact of COVID-19 on artists and the music industry, the difference between licensing or assigning your rights e.g. demonstrated by Bob Dylan who recently sold his catalogue, but then the share of that sale being determined by the wording of the contract with his co-author. Of course, we cover the streaming inquiry, and generally the need for artists to be more informed and entrepreneurial for a successful career. David also tells us his three wishes for the music industry for 2021...

Bill gives a heartfelt account of his career from private practice, law making, professor, to Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, and what most people might not know is that Bill is also a life long musician. He gives us insights into the challanges of law making, we talk about the US test for copyright infringement particularly in the cases of Blurred Lines, Stairway To Heaven. Bill explains why he would do away with expert witnesses in copyright infringement cases and shares the one thing he thinks needs changing in US copyright law…

Annabella Coldrick, CEO of the Music Managers Forum (MMF) talks about the changing artist manager dynamic, then we hear Annabella’s views on the UK music streaming inquiry, we consider where the line is between radio and streaming, and should we decide it from a technical or experiential perspective? Plus, Annabella talks about the need for better transparency and partnership within the music industry, for example in relation to licensing deals with TikTok and Facebook.

Tom Gray talks about creativity and originality in song creation, as well as the #BrokenRecord campaign, the current UK streaming inquiry, equitable remuneration, plus why and how musicians and artists can engage in copyright policy.

Ali Condon, from PRS for Music, explains why copyright is so important for creators, such as songwriters, composers and artists. We talk about originality in music creation, what copyright infringement is and how musicology plays a role in deciding if two songs are substantially similar. Ali shares her experience working with PRS members and engaging in copyright policy, such as the with the EU Copyright Directive. 

Crispin Hunt shares his songwriting stories from Longpigs to “Army of Lovers,” and more recently working with artists including Ellie Goulding, Florence and the Machine, Jake Bugg and Lana Del Ray. We talk about that fine line between taking inspiration and copyright infringement, as well as Crispin's work at the Ivor’s Academy and how he thinks copyright needs to change to benefit creators.