Reply To: JoCo in the Media
Great exposition, Paul! I have never signed a separate “master use” license, because IRL you always have to have a sync license too… so those rights have always been granted within the same document if necessary. (It says “Synchronization License for Karaoke” at the top, and there’s an optional paragraph allowing use of the author’s backing track… if it’s to be used for that song.) But as I really should have mentioned, they are legally distinct rights and JoCo’s strongest claim against Fox is that they didn’t obtain permission to use his backing track… even if (as I believe) he also has rights to his arrangement and melody because his setting was a clever and subtle act of parody.