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October 13, 2021

The Team

Why We Wrote This Guide Successful and well-known artists function like businesses. As with any business, there is a team of people working together toward a common goal behind every artist. This guide serves as an introduction to the most common team member roles for an artist. Who This Guide Is For Artists looking to […]

What is a Mechanical License?

Why We Wrote This Guide For over a century now, American copyright law has worked to create and maintain a system that ensures copyright owners are compensated for the use of their intellectual properties. At the same time, the system also works to provide the maximum availability of compositions to individuals that may wish to recreate and […]

What is a Public Performance License?

Why We Wrote This Guide An airport cafe is bustling with travelers on a Monday morning. The sweet and familiar opening of “Come On Eileen” comes on through the speakers. Patrons of the cafe start to visibly perk up. Feet tapping and head nodding ensue. Soon the whole place is more lively. The song is […]

What are Print Rights?

Why We Wrote This Guide This guide serves as a resource to grant interested parties a better understanding of print rights and how they function within the music industry. Print licensing and print royalties from these licenses still provide a significant form of income for interested parties, despite new technology and new revenue streams. According […]

What is Music Distribution?

Why We Wrote This Guide In 2017, paid audio-streaming subscriptions increased by 45.5% worldwide. Additionally, digital revenues accounted for over half of all revenue from recorded music. This indicates an important trend: listeners increasingly value access to music online over ownership of physical records. A new generation of listeners is finding their music on the internet through streaming services. […]

The YouTube Guide for the Music Business

Why we wrote this guide YouTube is enormous! The network spans all corners of the earth, is generating healthy revenues, has more people listening to music on it than all other music services combined…and it’s growing exponentially! Given the scale and multitude of relationships that exist between rightsholders, data distributors, collection organizations, and creators it […]

What is The Harry Fox Agency?

Why We Wrote This Guide The Harry Fox Agency administers mechanical royalties from digital service providers (see our guides for On-Demand Music Streaming and Digital Downloads) to songwriters and music publishers. When a listener plays a song on an on-demand streaming service or makes a download, a mechanical royalty is owed for use of the underlying composition copyright (think music and lyrics). The […]

What is Music Reports?

Why We Wrote This Guide Music Reports administers mechanical royalties from digital service providers (see our guides for On-Demand Music Streaming and Digital Downloads) to songwriters and music publishers. When a listener plays a song on an on-demand streaming service or makes a download, a mechanical royalty is owed for use of the underlying composition copyright (think music and lyrics). Music Reports ensures that these […]

What Is SoundExchange?

Why We Wrote This Guide This guide serves as a comprehensive resource to grant interested parties a better understanding of SoundExchange and its unique function within the music industry. The reader will gain insight into the complex world of digital performance royalty administration. In today’s music industry, as streaming and other digital platforms predominate the […]