Share Synchronization royalties (‘synch licenses’) are paid for the use of copyrighted music in audiovisual productions, such as in DVDs, television, movies, commercial, and advertisements. Music used in news tracks are also synch licenses. Synchronization can extend to live media performances, such as plays and live theatre. They become extremely important for new media – [...]

Share Many people have emailed me recently asking “what is the best way to get your single or mixtape out to the DJ’s, bloggers and tastemaker”.  The most current trend to marketing and promoting your single to industry contacts mentioned above is strong email campaign.  An E blast gives record labels, music artists and marketing [...]

Share So after this four part series about publishing, I figured that maybe I needed to actually to back track with all the technical stuff and go back to basics and look at filling out a basic publishing split sheet.  I can not explain the importance of filling out publishing split sheets.  I am going [...]

Share Starting your own publishing company is actually not that hard.  You as a songwriter may truly benefit from setting up your “own” publishing company because not only will you be able show off your own catalog of songs you’ve written – but also you may exploit songs of other writers that you acquire material [...]

Share In the United States, “performance royalties” are paid out mainly by three performance rights societies, BMI, ASCAP and SESAC. (Most foreign countries also have their own societies.) Under the copyright law, a songwriter controls the public performance of that songwriter’s songs. In essence, a songwriter designates either BMI, ASCAP or SESAC as his or [...]

Share Mechanical Royalties refers to the mechanical license and has its origins in the ‘piano rolls’ on which music was recorded in the early part of the 20th Century. Although its concept is now primarily oriented to royalty income from sale of CDs, its scope is wider and covers any copyrighted audio composition that is [...]

Share So I was recently asked by an artist/friend how does publishing work? My response is do you have a couple of hours to site down and we can go through everything and you can buy me lunch. I think I got the short end of the deal. Now onto publishing 101…..Successful songwriters (Lyrics) and [...]