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fonograma

English translation: phonogram (sound recordings)

13:43 Jan 10, 2024
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) / Music contract
Spanish term or phrase: fonograma
This is a contract in which a session musician cedes the rights to recordings made during a session. Should "fonograma" be "recording" or should it be "sound clip" or something like that?

Por intermedio de la presente dejo formal, expresa, e irrevocable constancia que participé como intérprete y ejecutante en la sesión musical de estudio de la artista conocida como “XXX” (en adelante la “ARTISTA”), sesiones de las cuales se generaron una serie de fonogramas (en adelante los “Fonogramas”), que son de propiedad y propiedad intelectual exclusiva de la ARTISTA.
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 21:04
English translation:phonogram (sound recordings)
Explanation:
The Glossary of the Terms of the Law of Copyright and Neighboring Rights gives the following definitions:

Phonogram: Any exclusively aural fixation of sounds of a performance or of other sounds. Gramophone records (discs) or tape recorder cassettes are duplicates of a phonogram.

Fonograma: Es toda fijación exclusivamente sonora de los sonidos de una representación o ejecución o de otros sonidos. Las grabaciones gramofónicas (discos) o las cassettes magnetofónicas son copias de fonogramas.

In the US, the term 'sound recordings' is widely used instead of 'phonograms.'
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Gilda Martinez
Argentina
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4 +4phonogram (sound recordings)
Gilda Martinez
3 +3phonogram
Adoración Bodoque Martínez
5Phonogram
María López-Contreras Conde
3 +1phonorecord
patinba
Summary of reference entries provided
Helena Chavarria

Discussion entries: 3





  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
phonorecord


Explanation:
Sound Recordings Distinguished from Phonorecords
A sound recording is not the same as a phonorecord. A phonorecord is the statutory term for a physical object that contains a sound recording, such as a digital audio file, a compact disc, or an LP.
The term “phonorecord” includes any type of object that may be used to store a sound recording, including digital formats such as .mp3 and .wav files.

Circular 56 Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings
U.S. Copyright Office (.gov)
https://www.copyright.gov › circs › circ56


patinba
Argentina
Local time: 21:04
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 564
Notes to answerer
Asker: I don't think the subject of the contract is the physical object containing containing the music: it seems to be the music itself. Look at this phrase: "Que la ARTISTA y/o quien ella indique, podrán disponer, reproducir, poner a disposición, publicar, distribuir, modificar, comercializar y/o utilizar los Fonogramas por todos los medios, formas o procedimientos que actualmente se conocen..."


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey: Correct in Asker's context. Also 'phonogram'. See https://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/copyright_symbol
1 hr
  -> Thank you Jennifer!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
phonogram (sound recordings)


Explanation:
The Glossary of the Terms of the Law of Copyright and Neighboring Rights gives the following definitions:

Phonogram: Any exclusively aural fixation of sounds of a performance or of other sounds. Gramophone records (discs) or tape recorder cassettes are duplicates of a phonogram.

Fonograma: Es toda fijación exclusivamente sonora de los sonidos de una representación o ejecución o de otros sonidos. Las grabaciones gramofónicas (discos) o las cassettes magnetofónicas son copias de fonogramas.

In the US, the term 'sound recordings' is widely used instead of 'phonograms.'



    https://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/copyright_symbol
    https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ56.pdf
Gilda Martinez
Argentina
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adoración Bodoque Martínez: We answered at the same time!
1 min
  -> Yes, it seems like we did! :)
agree  Jennifer Levey
2 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Helena Chavarria
3 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: just "audio recording"
22 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
phonogram


Explanation:
https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wppt/summary_wppt.html

Adoración Bodoque Martínez
Ireland
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey
1 min
  -> Thank you, Jennifer.
agree  Helena Chavarria
2 mins
  -> Thank you, Helena.
agree  María López-Contreras Conde
6 mins
  -> Gracias, María.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Phonogram


Explanation:
La Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual, cuya web puede consultarse en español e inglés, recoge "fonograma" como equivalente a "phonogram".

Definición en español en el artículo 114 del Texto Refundido de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual: “Se entiende por fonograma toda fijación exclusivamente sonora de la ejecución de una obra u otros sonidos”.





    https://www.wipo.int/treaties/es/ip/wppt/summary_wppt.html
    https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wppt/summary_wppt.html
María López-Contreras Conde
Spain
Local time: 02:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference

Reference information:
The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) deals with the rights of two kinds of beneficiaries, particularly in the digital environment: (i) performers (actors, singers, musicians, etc.); and (ii) producers of phonograms (persons or legal entities that take the initiative and have the responsibility for the fixation of sounds). These rights are addressed in the same instrument, because most of the rights granted by the Treaty to performers are rights connected to their fixed, purely aural performances (which are the subject matter of phonograms).

As far as performers are concerned, the Treaty grants performers economic rights in their performances fixed in phonograms (not in audiovisual fixations, such as motion pictures): (i) the right of reproduction; (ii) the right of distribution; (iii) the right of rental; and (iv) the right of making available.

https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wppt/summary_wppt.html

Article 114 of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act
https://www.mjusticia.gob.es/es/AreaTematica/DocumentacionPu...

Helena Chavarria
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 129
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