Music Sampling for Indie Artists. Most of the thousands of videos on YouTube that use copyrighted content without permission, pass intolerance under the ‘fair use’ policy, making monetization of those videos difficult for copyright owners. I have written about this in my blog Monetization Rights for Indie Artists. If you are the copyright owner of […]
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Monetization Rights for Indie Artists. Sometimes a client demands certain kind of music that is tailor-made for a specific requirement. Creating custom music is an interesting and specific skill. I have written about this in detail in my blog Custom Sync Royalty for Indie Artists. The predisposition of songwriters and electronic music producers makes them
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Custom Sync Royalty for Indie Artists. If an indie artist has a designated publisher, there is a better chance to score synch deals because publishers mostly chase synch deal opportunities for the writers and catalogues they represent. However, you can also pursue these opportunities yourself. I have written about this in detail in my blog
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Sync Royalty for Indie Artists. Usage of music along with visual output, as in video games, trailers, commercials, movies, TV shows etc. is called Synchronization. The licences required by a user to use a track for a ‘synch’ are a ‘synchronization license’ and a ‘master use license’. Mostly publishers chase these opportunities and score a
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Royalty Entitlements for Indie Artists. An indie artist’s entitlement to public performance royalty payments as a performer or master owner are dependent upon a country’s legislation, however, the broad general rule is that you are entitled if the country where you recorded the song enforces neighbouring rights. You are also entitled when the country of
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Maximizing Royalties for Indie Artists. Indie artists and publishers mostly have their public performance rights represented by a ‘Performing Rights Society (PRS)’. In exchange of an annual fee, these societies administrate, police income and issue licenses for the public usage of your repertoire after it has been signed up with them. PRS’ pay out royalties
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Benefits of Licensing Indie Music. The payments you receive in exchange for letting people use your intellectual property are called Royalties which are the cornerstone of an indie musician’s income. In exchange of royalties, the Copyright holders can grant licenses to others for use of their music. There are regulations of fixed royalty rates for
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Assigning Copyrights of Indie Artists. Labels always want to have control or ownership of the ‘sound recording’ of a track which is normally in the hands of the performing artist and author. When releasing a record with a label, they assign these rights to the label in exchange for royalty payments. These are called the
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Publishing Income for Indie Artists. With fierce competition, ever-growing number of music available online and online sales at an all-time low, it is becoming increasingly difficult for indie artists to depend only on money from online sales to sustain in the industry. You can read about this in detail in my blog Alternative Income for
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Types of Copyright for Indie Music. In my previous articles, I have been writing about copyrighting your music and generating income from it. In this article I am going to write about types of musical copyright. Composition Copyright A musical composition is a piece of music, in part or in whole. The authors of music
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