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1000% correct! This is not something that is only available for companies and people within the industry. This is why we created the Indie Music Xcelerator. A link to the module will be linked below to learn how to pitch your own music.
You should do both. There's the writers share and publishing share. By law you already have ownership in both shares unless you sign it over. Signing up with a PRO makes it official and allows to collect as a publisher and a songwriter.
When you purchase a piece of music once, and never have to pay for it again.
Other Resources: Guest Interview 02/02/22 @ 43min 3sec
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A Music Publishing Administrator manages licensing and collects for you part or all of the publishing royalties your music generates. By definition, a publishing administrator does not own or control any percentage of your actual copyright.
A music publisher is a person or an organization that is authorized to license the copyrighted use of a particular musical work.
Their tasks include promoting their catalog's songs to recording artists; licensing compositions for use by films, television, advertisements, and other media; monitoring...
Proportionally. Often used legally to say “your portion” of a share. Ex. “Your pro rata share of the writers share” means your portion of the writers share instead of the whole amount.
If you own the publishing rights to a song then you own the rights to the composition.
The owner is usually the composer of the music.
A Musical Work or Sound Recording is in the Public Domain when the copyright has
expired. This means that the copyright is no longer controlled or owned by anyone.
For example in the UK the songwriter’s copyright lasts for 70 years after their death,
after which it is in the public domain.
A performing right is the right to perform a musical work or sound recording. Any
time an organisation (such as a radio station, TV channel, café, hotel, etc.) wants to
perform a copyrighted work publicly, they must acquire performance rights from the
copyright owner or representative. PROs such as ...
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 mechanical right is the right to reproduce and distribute a piece of music onto
CDs, DVDs, records, tapes, ringtones, digital downloads, interactive streams, and
etc. Every time a song you’ve written is placed on a CD, downloaded as a digital file
or streamed through services like Spotify, you are...
The owner of the Master Rights owns the actual sound recording of the song. This
person or organization (typically a record label) is in charge of issuing any master
use licenses. If the track is being used in a visual works then a sync license is also
required.
When a track is written is it automatically protected by copyright law, even if the
author is not represented by a publisher or MCPS. In this case the Musical Work is
said to be in Copyright Control.
In order to use a piece of music, in most circumstances it needs to be ‘cleared’ by
the rights owners.
When you purchase a piece of music once, and never have to pay for it again.
A license which gives a user / organisation the authority to use all of the songs in a
Performing Right’s Organization’s repertoire for an annual fee.
