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īelow is the flowchart for the sound recording (master) side – reference the blue circle above). If you get a stream on Spotify, most of that money goes to the label (or distributor) for the recording. How Do You Get Paid For Streams and Salesįirst off, let’s breakdown what happens when your song (and recording) gets streamed and where that money comes from and goes. And PROs (Performing Rights Organizations – like ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS) do NOT collect mechanical royalties. There are still what’s called mechanical royalties out there. (For the record you can only be with one PRO in your country – ASCAP or BMI in the US. Yes performance royalties are PART OF publishing royalties, but not all of them. All they do is help you collect your performance royalties. No, once again, ASCAP, BMI, PRS, SOCAN do NOT do this for you. But, if you’re like me, and you don’t have a publishing company, you still need someone to track down your publishing royalties. And your label (or distributor) would collect the royalties from the master sound recording. My publishing company would collect my royalties from your cover recording. You own the master sound recording, I still own the composition (since I wrote the song). So when we’re discussing Admin Publishers in this article we’re only talking about the pink circle above. Labels represent artists and control (often own) master sound recordings. Publishers represent songwriters and control (sometimes own) compositions. You can pretty much interchange “publishing” and “songwriting.” Whenever we’re discussing “publishing” it’s for the song. One of the biggest points of confusion in the indie musician community is publishing. Oh, and I updated this (finally) after having only CD Baby and Tunecore as part of this report. You’re going to be referencing it a lot in the future. If you’re in the States, no, ASCAP or BMI will NOT collect all of your publishing royalties.īefore we jump into this full report, bookmark this page. Search SESAC's ON-LINE REPERTORY for works in the SESAC repertory which have been compiled from various sources.Let’s just get this out of the way from the get go. Search BMI's HYPER-REPERTOIRE, an internet song title database for publisher information on songs licensed by BMI. Search ASCAP's ACE, a searchable database of all compositions in the ASCAP repertory which have appeared in any of ASCAP's domestic surveys, including foreign compositions licensed by ASCAP in the United States. Many publishers have forms directly on their site. You will need to contact the publisher directly with any permissions.If you locate your title, write down any pertinent information associated with it.

ACE, Hyper-Repertoire, On-Line Repertory).

Click on each of the organizations' links below and proceed to the designated search area of each site (i.e.

Read the descriptions of the organizations and their search engines below.

If you cannot locate the publisher on the music, OR you do not have a copy of the music:

If you locate the necessary information, skip to Step 3 (FORMS).

Search the Music Publisher Directory and/or the index of Publishers' Imprints (which contains hypertext links to entries in the Publishers Directory) for the publisher's address and additional information.

If the publisher or copyright holder is listed on the music, OR if you already know the publisher and need address information:

If you have a copy of the music, examine the music for the copyright holder or publisher's name.

This resource guide will provide the necessary steps to assist you in your search. If you are looking for the publisher of a piece of music, you may be able to locate this information using the search engines at the web sites listed below. Welcome To The Copyright Information Resource Guide The Music Publishers Association assumes no liability for any errors or omissions in the information found at these organizations' web sites.

The information in these areas is provided by the individual organizations. If you are unable to locate a specific title using this search process, it does NOT imply that the work is in the public domain.

It is limited to those pieces in the repertory and/or licensed by the organizations listed. It links to various other organizations' web sites which offer useful search tools. This is intended as a guide for locating the publisher of a piece of music. How do you go about finding that information?įollow our easy guide to searchable databases where you'll find composers, titles, publishers, and other pertinent information for millions of compositions. You need publisher/copyright information to locate a piece of music, or to obtain the necessary permission to perform or arrange it. Read below, then follow our step-by-step guide.