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Music Publishing Guide: Unlock Royalties

Music publishing involves promoting, protecting, and accounting for music compositions and songwriters' royalty payments. It consists of two aspects - compositions (songs) which generate royalties for songwriters and publishers, and sound recordings (versions of songs) which generate payments for artists and labels. To fully benefit from music publishing, songwriters should understand their rights, register their songs with performance and mechanical rights organizations worldwide, and manage their song data to receive applicable royalty payments from sources like streaming services, live performances, and synchronization ("sync") licenses.

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Music Publishing Guide: Unlock Royalties

Music publishing involves promoting, protecting, and accounting for music compositions and songwriters' royalty payments. It consists of two aspects - compositions (songs) which generate royalties for songwriters and publishers, and sound recordings (versions of songs) which generate payments for artists and labels. To fully benefit from music publishing, songwriters should understand their rights, register their songs with performance and mechanical rights organizations worldwide, and manage their song data to receive applicable royalty payments from sources like streaming services, live performances, and synchronization ("sync") licenses.

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Music Publishing

UNLOCKED
(aka Your Missing Money)
MUSIC PUBLISHING
UNLOCKED

WHAT IS
Two Sides to all Music

Compositions

MUSIC = Songs
= Royalties for Songwriters and

PUBLISHING?
their Publishers

Sound Recordings
Music Publishing is the act of
promoting, protecting and
= Masters (Versions of a Song)
accounting for music compositions. = Payments for Artists and their
Recording Labels
MUSIC PUBLISHING
DEFINED

IF YOU ARE A SONGWRITER,


YOU ARE A PUBLISHER.
WHAT KIND ARE YOU?

SELF-PUBLISHER CO-PUBLISHER PUBLISHING ADMIN


(CD Baby Pro Publishing)

Do it yourself! Do it with someone else! Collect + distribute


UNDERSTANDING
YOUR RIGHTS

HOW TO 1 Have agreements. If you’re co-writing,


having Song Split agreements in place
is crucial. (CDBabyPublishing.com has

PROTECT
a downloadable Song Split form!)

YOUR RIGHTS
2 Register your songs. Register with
performing rights as well as mechanical
societies worldwide and other key
collection organizations – not just in
the country you live in.

3 Manage your data. Update changes


in ownership (and your address!) with
your society and distributor! Each
organization has their own data
standards and requirements.
MUSIC PUBLISHING
UNLOCKED

ASCAP + BMI COLLECT

COMMON Public performance royalties (TV, radio,


digital, part of streaming money, live,

MISCONCEPTIONS
background, etc.)

Public performance royalties for foreign


performances via reciprocal agreements

ASCAP + BMI DO NOT

Collect mechanical royalties of any kind


My P.R.O. (ie: ASCAP or BMI) is (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, etc.)

my publisher Register your songs directly with foreign


mechanical societies

Register your songs with other royalty


entities like HFA or Music Reports
UNDERSTANDING
YOUR REVENUE
Streaming facts: Use of your
music on an interactive

MUSIC STREAMING
streaming service, like Apple
Music, generates 2 royalties
for songwriters + publishers,

FOR PUBLISHERS
Performance and Mechanical.

100
90
Statutory Publishing/Songwriting Rates
80
for Streaming are 10.5% of Revenue for
70
services like Spotify. Whatever is left of
60
the 10.5% after Performing Rights is the 50
Mechanical Royalty. 40
30
In 2015, Apple Music launched offering 20
Publishing rights holders 13.5%, evenly 10
divided as Performance (6.75%) and 0
Mechanical (6.75%) Royalties. Streaming Sound Publishing Mechanical Performance
Service Recording Royalties Royalties Royalties
Revenue (10.5 - 13.5%) (5 - 6.5%) (5 - 6.5%)
Mechanical rate is increasing by 44% over
the next 5 years!
UNDERSTANDING
YOUR REVENUE

HOW YOU COLLECT MATTERS?


Direct Collection vs Sub-Publishers
CD Baby Publishing has the largest network of directly collected royalties
ABRAMUS HFA SABAM
ACUM ICE SACEM
AKM IMRO SACM
AMCOS KODA SDRM
APRA LYRICFIND SESAC
APRA-PAL LOUDR SGAE
ASCAP MCPS SPA
AUME
MEDIANET STEMRA
ARTISJUS
BMI
MUSICAUTOR SIAE
BUMA MUSIC REPORTS (MRI) SUISA
COMPASS NCB SOCAN
CMRRA OSA TEOSTO
ECCO PRS TONO
GEMA ZAIKS
UNDERSTANDING
YOUR REVENUE

HOW SYNC WORKS


ON YOUTUBE
Sound recording
$ (Sync Master)

Publishing Mechanical
(Sync Publishing)
Create a video Upload YouTube shares + Public Performance
with a soundtrack and set to monetize – the advertising revenue
YouTube sells ads with the creators Video owner
UNDERSTANDING
YOUR REVENUE

LIVE PERFORMANCE ROYALTIES


Register your setlists with Performing Rights Organizations in order for live performance royalties to be paid out.

No setlist, no royalties (except sometimes the Top 300 Tours)

Venue/Promoter PRO fees split based on the setlist (Split per night, per band, per song, per songwriter = royalty)

Cover songs’ writer/publisher gets paid

Submit via Songwriter PRO account

International setlists via domestic PRO or directly to international PRO


MUSIC PUBLISHING
UNLOCKED

NO SONG SHOULD GO UNPUBLISHED


(Unless you like missing out on your money)

CDBabyPublishing.com

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