How does a digital music agreement or contract look? Digital Music Distribution Agreement is a legal document, which is signed by the artist and handed over to the music distributor or aggregator, who…
Spotify has taken over the tech business Loudr
The San Francisco-based Loudr has been purchased by the streaming company for an undisclosed fee. Since its founding in 2013, Loudr has been creating products and services for content creators and agg…
Artist Account: a direct payment service for artists
Tired of wasting time adding up numbers of your artist’s sales from heaps of reports and of jumping through hoops to pay them all? Is it hard for you to pay your artists who reside in countries …
Pandora Premium: how royalties are being paid to artists and labels
Key takeaway: Now, with the broad rollout of Pandora Premium, there are three tiers, three ways for artists and labels to connect with listeners and earn royalties, and a few different ways royalties …
Neighboring Rights refer to the right to publicly perform, or broadcast, a sound recording
There’s a whole lot of confusion around the term “Neighboring Rights” stemming from where the name comes from in the first place. People often confuse it with the idea of receiving payments from…
The multi-million dollar royalties deal between YouTube and publishers goes through
Under the umbrella of NMPA (The National Music Publishers’ Association), music publishers and songwriters have forged an agreement with YouTube for the distribution of royalties for musical works of p…
Apple: Music streaming should pay songwriters $910 every million plays
Apple has filed a new proposal with the US Copyright Royalty Board which it hopes will simplify songwriting royalties in the States. The Cupertino giant has suggested that all on-demand streaming serv…
MUSIC ROYALTIES
Royalties is another very important aspect of the music industry as it involves getting paid for the public performance of your work. There are so many types of music royalties out there and understanding all of them can seem like a load of work but for the preservation of your rights as an artist you have to understand music royalties and how they work so nobody gets to come to you with any cheap lie about its mode of operation. There are the many types of royalties including the mechanical royalties for the reproduction and the distribution of copyrighted works and the public performance royalties and so on. Considering the fact that music royalties have a lot to do with legal work, it all balls down to security at the end of the day. Beatrising is a music distributor that pays royalties to artists, our legal agreement under the condition that a percentage of royalties is given to the artist on sales basis that can also vary depending on the profile of the label. This is a great package for you as an artist, you have guaranteed royalties coming to you when you work with Beatrising, and it is a legal arrangement that works to your benefit.