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What challenges do figure skaters face with music copyright at the Olympics?
Copyright law is not an Olympic sport, but athletes are having to compete in it anyway. From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshour, in for David Brancaccio. Twice now in this Winter Olympics, figure skaters have had to rethink their routines at the last minute because of copyright law. The music they wanted to skate to, and have been practicing skating to, is copyrighted, and the athletes were told... could not be used. One of those skaters has since secured the rights. Marketplace's Carla Javier looked into the complicated world of sports and music.
For years, figure skaters tended to use a lot of classical music. But in 2014, the rules loosened, and skaters started picking some hits. Here's Nathan Chen skating to a remix of Benny and the Jets at the 2022 Games.
The thing is... In order to use music outside of just listening to it for personal pleasure or in the background in a public venue, you need permission from the artist and all of the writers to use that music.
That's Chantal Epp, CEO of Click and Clear, which helps athletes navigate this whole permission process.
How has the music selection for figure skating evolved over the years?
Now, on average, a hit song can have nine different writers plus one record label.
So at least 10 potential people to negotiate with. Epps Company has a library of pre-cleared music, including some of the Minions songs. Other songs are negotiated case by case, including other Minions songs. Benham Plum is a former licensing executive now at the University of the Pacific.
Lord, it's just too much for an athlete to handle on their own.
In many cases, Plum says it might just come down to the rate.
It could be as low as in the hundreds, or it could be as high as thousands or hundreds of thousands.
But Plum says the process is important because it ensures the creators and artists get paid for their work. I'm Carla Javier from Marketplace.
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takeuchi is now armed with a mandate to spend. Her Liberal Democratic Party won a massive victory, a two-third supermajority. elections over the weekend. First time that's happened since 1947. The results sent Japanese stocks up and bond yields, too, as investors expect more borrowing to pay for promised spending.
The BBC's Stuart Clarkson has more. reaching 57,000 for the first time in its history. Investors say Ms Takeichi's large majority will help to ensure that Japan implements stable economic policies over the next five years. Since she became the nation's first female premier in October, the so-called Takeichi trade has pushed domestic shares in Japan to record highs, but also caused a rapid sell-off in Japanese government bonds and the value of the yen. Her government's pledged to spend heavily to stimulate the economy, with things such as defence, artificial intelligence and chips being singled out by Ms Takeichi for investment. I'm the BBC's Stuart Clarkson for Marketplace.
Every so often, we take the pulse of the economy by talking to some of the people in it. Today, we're talking about fish. The Gulf of Maine is the heart of a vibrant fishing industry, one that is being reshaped by climate change. The Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest warming ocean regions in the world. That has dragged down the shrimp population there so much that regulators banned catching them through at least 2028. But nature and fishermen are adapting. Graham Sherwood is a senior scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, and it's here to talk about it. Welcome. Thank you. So we're a decade into this moratorium on shrimping. What does the fishing industry in Maine look like today?
The fishing industry in Maine looks like lobsters. There's some ground fishing, no shrimping, but lobsters is kind of where it's at.
What is lobster fishing like, given changing climate?
So we've seen a rise in lobster landings over the last couple decades, and it actually hit a maximum in 2016. And that could be related somewhat to warming, actually. It increased some of their productivity. What we've seen over the last 10 years or so There's a little bit of coming back from that, and it might seem like it's getting too warm for lobsters, but I should mention the lobsters are still a highly valuable fishery in the United States.
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