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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)?
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?
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?
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?
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)?