552 Sound Recording and Music Publishing
This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:
5521 Music Publishing
This class consists of units mainly engaged in acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions and promoting and authorising the use of these compositions in recordings, radio, television, motion pictures, live performances, print, or other media. Units in this class represent the interest of the composing unit, or other owners of musical compositions, to produce revenues from the use of such works, usually through licensing agreements. These units may own the copyright or act as administrator of the music copyrights on behalf of copyright owners. Also included in this class are units publishing sheet music (including in bound book form).
Primary activities
- Authorising use of copyrighted musical composition
- Music book publishing
- Music book (bound sheet music) publishing
- Music copyright buying and selling
- Music publishing
- Sheet music publishing
- Song publishing
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- composing music are included in Class 9002 Creative Artists, Musicians, Writers and Performers; and
- printing sheet music without publishing are included in Class 1611 Printing.
5522 Music and Other Sound Recording Activities
This class consists of units mainly engaged in producing original (sound) master recordings such as tapes and CDs and releasing and distributing these sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers or directly to the public. Also included in this class are units engaged in operating sound recording studios and in the production of pre-recorded radio programs.
Primary activities
- Audio service (including for meetings and conferences)
- Producing pre-recorded radio programming
- Record distribution
- Record production
- Record production and distribution
- Sound recording post-production service
- Sound recording studio operation
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- the mass duplication of audio and visual media are included in Class 1620 Reproduction of Recorded Media;
- acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions are included in Class 5521 Music Publishing;
- providing musical performances are included in Class 9001 Performing Arts Operation; and
- wholesaling pre-recorded audio media are included in Class 3739 Other Goods Wholesaling n.e.c.