CAEN Code 5920: Sound recording and music publishing activities

Includes

This class includes the activities of producing original (sound) master recordings, such as tapes, CDs; releasing, promoting, and distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers, or directly to the public. These activities may be integrated or not with the production of master recordings in the same unit. If not, the unit exercising these activities must obtain reproduction and distribution rights to master recordings.

Includes also

This class also includes sound recording service activities in a studio or elsewhere, including the production of taped ( ie non-live) radio programming This class also includes the activities of music publishing, ie activities of acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions, promoting, authorising and using these compositions in recordings, radio, television, motion pictures, live performances, print and other media Units engaged in these activities may own the copyright or act as administrator of the music copyrights on behalf of the copyright owners Publishing of music and sheet books is included here