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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Alternative Income for Indie Artists. Every artist wants to make money from his work. But is it as easy and certain as a job? Certainly not. 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
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Perfect Email Pitch for Indie. When you send out emails to so many venues and nobody get back, it is really frustrating. It makes you wonder if you did even send those e-mails! It happens with all of us. So when you begin booking for the next tour, take a new route and get a
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The Indie Guide to Radio. The music industry has evolved at the speed of light in the past few decades. I have written about this in my blog Survival of the Indie Artist. The sooner you realize that you are on your own in this world of pay-to-play radio, the better it is going to
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Survival of the Indie Artist. Over the last few decades, I have seen a lot because of my involvement in the indie music business. There were days, I remember, of one genre of rock in which Jimi Hendrix played on the same radio station as James Taylor. If the music was good, they played it,
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Opener Indie. For all indie artist and bands an important leap in their career is to get a big kickstarting opportunity. Your talent is immediately noticed if a video goes viral or you get a chance to work with someone who has already done something big in his career. You can climb the ladder of