{
  "id": "music-publishing-business",
  "title": "The Music Publishing Business Course",
  "course_url": "/learn/courses/music-publishing-business.html",
  "audience": "advanced",
  "lesson_count": 18,
  "mapped_checkpoint_count": 18,
  "rows": [
    {
      "id": "chapter-1",
      "lesson_number": 1,
      "title": "The business behind the song",
      "assignment": "Draw two boxes for Evening Train, one for the composition and one for the master. Put each participant in the proper box, mark unresolved interests, and list the evidence needed before you could approve a film use. The completed drawing should make uncertainty visible rather than filling gaps with assumed ownership.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-2",
      "lesson_number": 2,
      "title": "Building the catalog record",
      "assignment": "Build a record for Evening Train containing its 60/40 authorship split, two recording versions, one unresolved master agreement, and a future administration end date. Another student should be able to identify every unresolved item without asking the person who entered it.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Label the parts, connections and direction of flow. Use the model to explain one result or predict the effect of a specific change.",
      "standards": [
        "model"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the parts and connections, then use the diagram or sequence to explain or isolate a problem."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the parts and connections, then use the diagram or sequence to explain or isolate a problem.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-3",
      "lesson_number": 3,
      "title": "Starting a publishing company",
      "assignment": "Prepare a twelve-month budget for a twenty-song startup. Include a three-month collection delay, a writer advance, professional fees, and a reserve for an unexpected dispute. State which planned activity you would reduce first if collections were half your forecast.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep the figures or observations in a spreadsheet or other digital table. Show each calculation or comparison and explain the decision it supports.",
      "standards": [
        "data"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-4",
      "lesson_number": 4,
      "title": "Acquiring songs and valuing catalogs",
      "assignment": "Value a five-song catalog using normalized retained income. Give one song a title dispute, one a major one-time license, and one an approaching contractual reversion. Present a price range and explain which documents could change it. Do not hide unresolved ownership in a discount without identifying the problem.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep the figures or observations in a spreadsheet or other digital table. Show each calculation or comparison and explain the decision it supports.",
      "standards": [
        "data"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-5",
      "lesson_number": 5,
      "title": "Copyright ownership registration and duration",
      "assignment": "Prepare a rights checklist for a newly recorded version of a 1930 song using a 1990 arrangement. Do not decide the answer from the oldest date alone. Identify the composition, arrangement, recording, publication facts, and permissions that must be checked.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-6",
      "lesson_number": 6,
      "title": "Negotiating songwriter agreements",
      "assignment": "Compare two fictional offers: a larger advance with broad deductions and long control, and a smaller advance with narrower rights and stronger reversion. Calculate one year's writer credit under each. Then identify a nonfinancial term that could outweigh the cash difference.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep the figures or observations in a spreadsheet or other digital table. Show each calculation or comparison and explain the decision it supports.",
      "standards": [
        "data"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-7",
      "lesson_number": 7,
      "title": "Co publishing and administration",
      "assignment": "Prepare a one-page authority schedule for Evening Train. Lena's company controls her 60 percent in the United States; Omar's administrator handles his 40 percent worldwide; a separate agent handles Lena's European interest. Show who may quote a U.S. film use, a European advertisement, and a worldwide exclusive campaign. Mark every approval still required.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-8",
      "lesson_number": 8,
      "title": "Mechanical licensing and streaming royalties",
      "assignment": "Calculate the whole-work statutory amounts for 2,000 units of a 3:45 song and 2,000 units of a 6:01 song using the stated 2026 rate. Then allocate 60 percent to Lena's interest. Explain why neither calculation gives the amount due for 2,000 interactive streams.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep the figures or observations in a spreadsheet or other digital table. Show each calculation or comparison and explain the decision it supports.",
      "standards": [
        "data"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-9",
      "lesson_number": 9,
      "title": "Public performance and collection societies",
      "assignment": "A student receives a master-distribution statement, a BMI statement, and an MLC statement for the same song. Identify the right associated with each, the identifiers needed to match them, and why the amounts cannot be combined into a single universal per-stream rate.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Label the parts, connections and direction of flow. Use the model to explain one result or predict the effect of a specific change.",
      "standards": [
        "model"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the parts and connections, then use the diagram or sequence to explain or isolate a problem."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the parts and connections, then use the diagram or sequence to explain or isolate a problem.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-10",
      "lesson_number": 10,
      "title": "Synchronization and audiovisual licensing",
      "assignment": "Draft a clearance brief for a fictional documentary using twenty seconds of Evening Train and its existing master. Then change the request to a paid advertisement. Identify every term that needs reconsideration rather than copying the first quote.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-11",
      "lesson_number": 11,
      "title": "International rights and collections",
      "assignment": "Draw two international collection routes for Evening Train, one using a reciprocal society relationship and one involving a subpublisher. Identify possible fees, approvals, currency conversion, and the records required to reconcile each route. Explain which facts would justify paying for a local creative partner.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Label the parts, connections and direction of flow. Use the model to explain one result or predict the effect of a specific change.",
      "standards": [
        "model"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the parts and connections, then use the diagram or sequence to explain or isolate a problem."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the parts and connections, then use the diagram or sequence to explain or isolate a problem.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-12",
      "lesson_number": 12,
      "title": "Print lyrics and educational uses",
      "assignment": "Prepare a permission brief for a lesson that includes a score excerpt, sung demonstration, on-screen lyric, downloadable worksheet, and promotional trailer. Identify which assets you created and which require additional authority. Do not assume the book permission covers the trailer.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-13",
      "lesson_number": 13,
      "title": "Theater and dramatic uses",
      "assignment": "A producer wants to use Evening Train as a character's recurring theme, rewrite a verse, film the show, and release a cast album. Prepare a list of separate permissions and approvals. Explain why a venue's ordinary music license does not answer the entire request.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-14",
      "lesson_number": 14,
      "title": "Advertising branded content and endorsements",
      "assignment": "Quote a three-month regional digital campaign for Evening Train with no lyric changes and no product-category exclusivity. Then list the additional information and approvals needed for worldwide television, a rewritten chorus, and an artist-voice simulation. Explain how the added rights affect each quote.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-15",
      "lesson_number": 15,
      "title": "Samples games platforms and artificial intelligence",
      "assignment": "Review three requests: sampling Lena's master, recreating its melody in a game, and using her voice to generate new lyrics. Make separate lists of composition, recording, identity, contract, and platform questions. The correct result is a clearance plan, not a blanket yes or no based on the word “AI.”",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep a permissions and credit record with the assignment. Cite the relevant source, identify who can approve the intended use, and name any missing permission before sharing.",
      "standards": [
        "rights"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the material, rights, permitted use, credits and unresolved permissions; support the clearance decision with sources.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-16",
      "lesson_number": 16,
      "title": "Developing songs and finding uses",
      "assignment": "Prepare two pitches for Evening Train, one to a recording artist and one to a documentary editor. Select the appropriate version for each and explain the fit in two sentences. Attach a truthful clearance summary and a proposed follow-up date.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Prepare the presentation digitally and identify its intended recipient. Explain why you chose these examples and this format.",
      "standards": [
        "audience"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Identify the intended recipient and adapt the selection, format and explanation to that recipient’s needs."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Identify the intended recipient and adapt the selection, format and explanation to that recipient’s needs.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-17",
      "lesson_number": 17,
      "title": "Marketing a publishing catalog",
      "assignment": "Design a ninety-day marketing plan for a ten-song catalog. Name one buyer group, the material it needs, the contact method, the budget, and the evidence you will review. Include a rule for stopping an activity that produces attention but no relevant inquiries.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep the plan in a digital document. Include the intended result, resources, timing and a response to one likely change.",
      "standards": [
        "plan"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Use a digital plan to connect the intended result to available time, equipment, people and a workable fallback."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Use a digital plan to connect the intended result to available time, equipment, people and a workable fallback.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-18",
      "lesson_number": 18,
      "title": "Accounting management and continuity",
      "assignment": "Close a fictional quarter for Evening Train. Reconcile one domestic receipt, one foreign remittance, a recoupable expense, and a late correction. Produce a writer statement and an exceptions list. A second student should be able to reproduce the payment without consulting the person who prepared it.",
      "practice_steps": [],
      "evidence_requirement": "Keep the figures or observations in a spreadsheet or other digital table. Show each calculation or comparison and explain the decision it supports.",
      "standards": [
        "data"
      ],
      "assessment_criteria": [
        "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records."
      ],
      "assessed_focus": "Show the input data, calculations or comparisons, and a conclusion that can be reproduced from the records.",
      "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope."
    }
  ],
  "teacher_assessment": {
    "instructions": "Assess the work named in each row. Record the file or portfolio entry, the criterion, the result and the next action. Use a practical observation for equipment operation. Give feedback on the learner’s decisions as well as the finished result.",
    "levels": {
      "3": "Criterion met, with independent verification or a successful application in another situation.",
      "2": "Criterion met: the required work is complete, accurate and supported by evidence.",
      "1": "Some relevant work is present, but the intended result has not been demonstrated.",
      "0": "The required evidence has not been submitted or demonstrated."
    },
    "self_guided": "Read the evidence requirement before starting. Save the work, check each criterion and revise any missing or unsuccessful part. Use a peer or instructor for tasks that require feedback or a witnessed practical demonstration."
  },
  "teacher_practice": [
    {
      "standard": "teach",
      "task": "Prepare and teach “The business behind the song.” Demonstrate the task, then have learners complete it independently.",
      "evidence": "A teaching plan, demonstration or teach-back, and learner work showing the result.",
      "criterion": "State the learning objective, teach a workable activity and show how the resulting student work demonstrates the objective."
    },
    {
      "standard": "adapt",
      "task": "Adapt one practical assignment for a learner with limited equipment, a different way of accessing instructions, or a different way of presenting the result.",
      "evidence": "The original task, the adapted route and the shared assessment criteria.",
      "criterion": "Name a specific access or learning need and provide a usable alternative that preserves the intended skill."
    },
    {
      "standard": "assess",
      "task": "Use “Accounting management and continuity” to assess the learner’s decisions and finished work. Plan feedback and a second attempt for one unmet criterion.",
      "evidence": "An annotated rubric, specific feedback, revised work and a brief comparison.",
      "criterion": "Score the work against stated criteria, identify the misconception and provide feedback and a suitable next activity."
    }
  ],
  "readiness": {
    "pathway": "specialize",
    "fit": "About 16–18 with strong reading and numeracy; selected cases can serve younger learners.",
    "prioritySkills": "Copyright interests; catalog administration; licensing; cash flow and royalty records.",
    "priorSkills": "Can distinguish song and recording rights and work accurately with percentages.",
    "equipment": "Case files, spreadsheet or document editor, and internet access to verify sources.",
    "expectedTime": "Plan 45–60 hours for 18 substantial lessons and projects.",
    "teacherGuidance": "Teacher edition required for school use; check legal and royalty reasoning against current sources.",
    "educationTitle": "The Music Publishing Business Course — Advanced Career Elective",
    "teacherEditionUrl": "/learn/access.php?resource=teaching/music-publishing-business/teacher.html"
  }
}