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A sync license is required when someone wants to synchronize a piece of music to
a specific media output. Whoever owns or represents the publishing rights to a piece
of music is responsible for issuing the sync license.

 If you take a section of someone else’s song and use it in your own track then you
are “sampling” their music and need a license to do so. Before submitting your
tracks to anyone you should ensure that samples are cleared.

If music is pre-cleared then all the rights to the track are cleared in advance. This
means that when someone purchases a license they automatically have permission
to use the track.

You possess a “one stop” if all the rights in a track have been cleared. This means
that both the publishing and master rights must be 100% pre-cleared. So in this
instance you would either hold both the publishing and master rights to a
composition, or guarantee that the rights you represent are fu...

A license is an agreement where the licensor allows the licensee to use their music,
usually in return for a fee. If you license your work to someone, you still retain the
rights to the music.

The owner of the licensed work 

The person or organisation to which a work is licensed

Instrumental versions of tracks are often favoured when it comes to licensing, so if
you have instrumental versions always send them along with the originals. Remixes
are also always welcome.

This means that the licence duration is endless.

If you choose to have a third party company represent your music you can either ask
them to represent you exclusively, or have numerous companies represent you non-
exclusively.

When you license both the sound recording (master rights) and the song (publishing
rights) for one “all in” fee.

Ex: $10K "all in" mean $5k to license the master copyright and $5K to license the publishing copyright.