Music that is additional to the original score. It refers to music in a film or video which can be background music (e.g. from a radio or TV) or created by the characters themselves as part of the plo [..]

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Audio-Visual Products. Relates to the AVP Licence issued by the MCPS for the manufacture & distribution of non-music based general interest DVDs for retail sale to the public for private use.

Burnt in Time Code – i.e. the time code is visible on the picture.

The British Phonographic Industry. The BPI is the British record industry’s trade association, the representative voice of the UK recorded music business.

The word comes from the Italian and means “mockery”. In music, the word appertains to an imitative performance in a non-serious manner intended to entertain by caricaturing, ridiculing or distorting t [..]

The British Video Association. The BVA is the trade body that represents the interests of rights owners of publishers of video entertainment.

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is the current UK copyright law giving the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the right to control the ways in which their material [..]

Copyright is the statutory right under the CDPA to prevent others copying or exploiting creators’ works in various ways without permission.

A new live or recorded performance of a previously commercially released song.