Indie Music and the Internet. The invention of internet has had many direct and indirect effects on the music industry – both good and bad. This article is a part of a larger article about the evolution of the indie music industry. You can read more about this in my blog Indie Music Industry. I […]
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Indie Music Industry. The turn of this millennium brought with it a unique and difficult set of challenges; not just for the indie music industry, but for nearly all the business industries. The advent of internet and its prevalence has had a wide range of implications on how work is done. Today, a large part
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Monetizing Music Libraries for Indie Artists. Music that has been created with the purpose of usage in other media, such as radio, video, television, or even in other people’s compositions, after licensing, is called stock music. Different forms of stock music are construction and sample packs for music production, sound effects wherever required, music piece,
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Music Libraries for Indie Artists. The use of a piece of an existing sound recording or composition for another sound recording or composition is called Sampling. You may read my blog Music Sampling for Indie Artists, to learn more about music sampling. Permission from the copyright holders, called ‘clearing’ of that sample is required in
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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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