WHAT ADDITIONAL TYPES OF CLAUSES SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE CONTRACT?
The contract proposed by the downloading platforms is very strict. The same exact document has already been offered to hundreds of producers before you see it. Therefore, the margin for negotiation is very limited. Territory: For linguistic and cultural reasons most platforms limit their field of operation to only one country. Consequently, the problems of excluding the geographical area are rather easy to manage. Duration: The period of time included in the contracts is usually a short period lasting from one to three years, but most contracts include a tacit automatic renewal clause. The DRM (Digital Rights Management): The issue of the DRM (see Glossary), the control software integrated within the file to be downloaded that makes it possible to specifically indicate what the client will be allowed to do (how many copies of the file ? on which support ?), has been an issue of debate for the last years. Many online music services have discontinued this approach and currently offer the
