Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
tuzmusic
Swing Joined: 12/10/13
#1Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Posted: 3/17/16 at 10:42pm
Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton? Miranda?
Does anyone know for sure or know of some way to find out? Or, does someone know if grand rights perhaps always and only reside with the composer (and not the production company or, say, the Richard Rodgers theater or something)?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Posted: 3/17/16 at 11:31pm
I've never heard the term grand rights (is that a British term?)
Do you mean how will future groups be able to license it? Or do you mean who will be financially benefitting from those rights? Or perhaps I'm being obtuse and totally misunderstanding your question.
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Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#3Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Posted: 3/18/16 at 3:01am
Grand rights has to do with evoking the show itself. The classic expample is a man in a tuxedo stands on a bare stage and sings "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'. That's covered by an ASCAP license. But if he wears a cowboy hat and stands next to a bale of hay, then that's Grand Rights and requires a license form the music publisher and licensing agent for the show. First Class Rights are the sole provenance of the authors and original producers. After they have expoited those rights in terms of tours, sit-downs and foreign productions, they will most likely make secondary rights to the property avaialble (stock and amature). But in answer to your question, no licensing house has yet to announce that the have acquired he rights. R&H might be a good guess as they have In the Heights and therefore have a relationship with the author.
Updated On: 3/18/16 at 03:01 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Posted: 3/18/16 at 5:58am
Thanks, Wilmington, for the explanation. Greatly appreciated. (Kind of what I was assuming.)
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Updated On: 3/18/16 at 05:58 AM
JM226
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/15
#5Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Posted: 3/18/16 at 7:43am
i doubt anyone has the "grand rights," yet.
#6Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?
Posted: 3/18/16 at 10:56am
it would be nice if folks who don't know something would not chime in ass if they do but I guess that's too much to hope for.
Grand rights refer to any musical performance that is not the bare performance of a song. They technically include performing the music within the broader context of a musical, but are not generally referred to as such in that context because you also need the broader rights (i.e., the book+m&lpackage). So the term grand rights as it relates to songs from musicals is generally limited to out of context uses that include something more than just singing or playing a song. (E.g., within a different dramatic as opposed to simply musical performance). It may be easier to understand in the reverse-a jukebox musical needs grand rights because it is using songs for dramatic purposes.
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