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HELP CENTER
Music Industry 101
Songtrust Basics
Why Songtrust
Term and Agreement
Eligibility
Additional Questions
Account Registration
Account Setup
Account Settings
Adding Songwriters
Song Registration Process
Troubleshooting
Identity Verification
Collecting Royalties
Songtrust Royalties Dashboard
Royalty Types & Sources
Royalties: General Questions
Payments
Payment Timeline
Tax Information
Payment Information
Collection Partners/Pay Sources
Performance Rights Organizations & Collective Management Organizations (PROs/CMOs)
Mechanical Royalties Partners
YouTube
Music Industry 101
General Publishing Terms
General Publishing Questions
Copyright
Recordings/Record Labels/Recording Contracts
Licensing & Sync
Publishing Partners & Other Organizations
Ayuda En Español
FAQs General
Preguntas frecuentes
FAQs
General FAQs
Music Industry 101
General Music Publishing Questions
General Publishing Terms
What Is a Collective Management Organization? (CMO)
What Is Royalty-Free Music?
What is Music Publishing?
What Is a Compulsory License?
What is Metadata?
What is an ISWC?
What is an “Audit Clause”?
What is a Printed Music Publisher?
What is a "Vanity Publisher"?
What Are Neighbouring Rights Royalties?
What is The International Standard Music Number (ISMN)?
What is a "Controlled Composition Clause" in a Recording Contract?
What Are First Recording Rights?
What is an International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)?
What is Cross Collateralization?
What is a Personal Publishing Entity?
What is a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)?
What are "Grand Rights"?
What is a Notice of Intent (NOI)?
What Is a Digital Music Distributor?
What Is a Digital Service Provider (DSP)?
What Is an Exclusive Songwriter Agreement?
What is an Aggregator?
What are Royalties?
What are Counter Claims?
What is a Distributable Event (DE)?
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General Publishing Questions
How Do I Get Permission to Record and Release a Cover Song?
What Is the Pay Rate for Spotify Streams?
What is a 360 Deal, and How Would It Affect My Publishing?
Is Having Your Own Publishing Company the Same as Having a Publisher?
What is the Difference Between “Transmission” and “Retransmission”?
What is the Difference Between Songwriters and Performers?
When Should a Songwriter Join Songtrust or Start Their Own Publishing Entity?
Does the Statutory Mechanical Rate Depend On Where My Song is Distributed?
What is "Concert" Music?
What is an Area of Dominant Influence (ADI)?
When Do Changes in a Recording Merit a New ISRC?
What Are Writer Performance Royalties?
What Are the Exclusive Rights Granted to a Sound Recording Owner?
Do Public Domain Arrangements Pay the Same Performance Royalties As Original Works?
Why is Music Publishing Important?
What Is the Difference Between An "At Source" and "Receipt" Deal?
What Does it Mean to be an "Arranger"?
Can I Use the Same Business Entity for Both ASCAP & BMI?
What is the Difference Between Reproduction and Performing Rights?
How Do I Register a Song if I am Using Samples From Tracklib?
What is the Difference Between Sound Recordings and Music Publishing?
How Do You Earn a “Gold” or “Platinum” Award in the US?
Does the ISRC Change If I Release a Work as a Single and Part of an Album?
What is the Difference Between Interactive and Non-Interactive Streaming?
What is a Co-Publishing Deal?
What Is Ephemeral Use, and How Does It Affect Me?
What Does it Mean When a Song is a "Work For Hire"?
Do I Need Permission To Perform Cover Songs In My Live Sets?
How Does a Music Publisher Differ From a Record Company?
What Would Setting up my own Personal Publishing Company/Entity do for me Financially?
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Copyright
How Do I Copyright My Song?
What Is a Public Copyright License?
When Is Something Considered a Derivative Work?
What Does It Mean When a Work Is In the Public Domain?
What Is the Music Modernization Act (MMA)?
What is a DMCA Takedown?
Can You Copyright My Songs?
What is the Allocation for Music Producers (AMP) Act?
What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
What Is The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)?
What Is The Audio Home Recording Act?
What Is "Bootlegging"?
What is Australian Copyright Law?
What is an Orphaned Work?
What Constitutes "Fair Use" and "Fair Dealing"?
What is the Canadian Copyright Law?
What Are the Exclusive Rights of Copyright in the USA?
What is the Current Duration of Copyright in the USA?
How Can I Avoid Copyright Infringement?
What is the European Union copyright law?
Can You Help with Copyright Infringement?
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Recordings/Record Labels/Recording Contracts
If my distributor asks for my publisher's information do I put myself/my personal pub entity information, or do I put Songtrust’s information?
What is a Record Label?
How Do I Know If I Am Earning Master-Generated Royalties?
If a Recording Has More Than One Copyright Owner, Who Should Apply for the ISRC?
Licensing & Sync
What Is the Difference Between a Sample and an Interpolation?
Where Can I Get a Mechanical License?
What Is a Cue Sheet?
What Is a Music License?
What Is a “Per Program” License?
What Is a Perpetual Use License?
What Are Sync Fees?
What Is an Internal Use License?
What Is a Single Use License?
What Is a Video Buyout?
What Is a Synchronization (Sync) License?
What Is a Blanket License?
What If My Music Is Used in Advertisements/Commercials?
Do I Need to Get a Mechanical License to Record/Release a Song I Control?
What Is an External Use License?
What Is a Personal Use License?
Who Should I Contact If I Want To License A Song Controlled By Songtrust?
What Is a Free License (or Open License)?
What Is a Creative Commons (CC) License?
What Is a Music Supervisor?
Can Recording Artists Get Mechanical Licenses Directly From Songtrust?
What Is Sync License Forwarding?
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Publishing Partners & Other Organizations
Can I Submit Setlists from Shows That Were Performed Internationally if I Am From the US?
What Is the Harry Fox Agency (HFA)?
What Is the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA)?
What Is CISAC?
What Is the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)?
What Is the Association of Independent Music Publishers?
What is the RIAA?
What Is SoundCloud Premier?
Can a Band Join a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)?
What Is BIEM?
What's the Difference Between Songtrust and Sentric Publishing?
What Is Tracklib?
What Is Music Reports?
What Is the Difference Between a Performing Rights Organization and the Harry Fox Agency?
What is the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC)?
What Is Audiomack?
What Is The Ivors Academy?
What Is The Music Publisher's Association (UK)?
What Is The Quebec Collective Society for the Rights of Makers of Sound and Video Recordings (SOPROQ)?
What is Creative Commons and What Do They Do?
What Is The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)?
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