Practice question
A producer licenses exhibition of an audiovisual work and claims that its Section 178.5 authority necessarily includes collecting performing-license fees for the musical compositions incorporated in the film. No other grant is shown. Which is correct?
- That fee-collection right is expressly excepted from the producer's statutory exhibition-exercise rule.
- Every music right necessarily passes to the producer without agreement.
- The composer can never own copyright in audiovisual music.
- The producer automatically becomes the composer of every song.
- A film ticket transfers all musical copyrights to the cinema.
Legal references
- RA 8293, Intellectual Property Code, Sections 171-179, 184-185 and 193-197: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html
- RA 10372, Sections 4, 8-12, 16-17, copyright amendments: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10372_2013.html
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