abstract:Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composer/lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two).
Reports say that advertising provides about 86% of the financing for file-sharing sites that feature illegally distributed content, according to a report funded by Google and the PerformingRights Society for Music in Britain.
International cooperation on connecting performing-rights organizations around the world through digital databases had become one of her major interests.