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Every musician wishing to earn money from their music needs to have at least a general understanding of publishing.
http://www.grindefx.com/music-business-101-licensing/
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Every musician wishing to earn money from their music needs to have at least a general understanding of publishing.
http://www.grindefx.com/music-business-101-licensing/
If you recall, the law recognizes two separate copyrightable works in the music world: musical compositions and sound recordings.
you become your own publisher when you create a musical composition. Again, don’t let the word trip you up - all this means is that, as with any other work, you are able to do anything you want with your song, including licensing it to other people to help make money from it.
So, if you’ve created a song, congratulations! Not only are you the owner of a copyright, but you are also officially a publisher. But simply being a publisher won’t make you money - you have to act as a publisher, or find someone else to do it for you.
Music publishers and songwriters began licensing their songs to piano-roll manufacturers, creating a lucrative new revenue stream. The “mechanical license” was born - a license of a musical composition to the manufacturer of a mechanical device that plays that musical composition.
And while piano rolls have fallen off the map, the mechanical license remains. It now refers to the licensing of a musical composition for any phonorecord - from albums to digital files and even ringtones.
- Sync licenses - use of the song in movies, television, television commercials - as the name suggests, any use of music synced to visuals (including video games)
Giving up your copyright to get 50% of a lot of money that a well-established publisher can generate from your song is a lot better than getting 100% of nothing on your own.
who owns the sound recording copyright? the person that pays for the studio time (label), or the person that actually hits "record" on the D.A.W. (engineer)???
does that mean that youtube is payin' artists for the music videos that it plays of them?
does anybody get paid "publishing" on mixtapes (where copyright infringement runs rampant)?
giving up your "publishing" is the same thing as giving up your "copyright"...right?
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what is your motivation?
your site is a god-send...
what is your motivation?
who owns the sound recording copyright? the person that pays for the studio time (label), or the person that actually hits "record" on the D.A.W. (engineer)???
The “mechanical license” was born - a license of a musical composition to the manufacturer of a mechanical device that plays that musical composition.