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3. Copyright and Royalties Overview
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How to choose your music distributor and collect ALL royalties
04:57 2Introduction to this Section
01:15 3Copyright and Royalties Overview
02:33 4Royalties as the Songwriter
02:50 5Publishing Admin Companies
04:43 6Performing Rights Organizations
03:00 7A Brief Overview of Copyright
04:38 8Record Companies and Record Deals
02:37Spotify and Spotify Pre-Saves
02:34 10Preparing for a Release
03:53 11Spotify Continued
06:11 12Money
03:45 13The Importance of Video
03:26 14Demos
01:46 15Standing out
01:50 16Followers vs Fans
03:32 17Websites
03:48 18Recommended Resources
03:34 19Building and Monetizing Your Fan Club
07:12 20Pre-Save Spotify Toneden
02:40 21Fan Links Toneden
03:04 22Creating a Website with Square Space - A Brief Overview
04:30 23How to make a Lyric Video in Final Cut Pro X
09:36 24Finding Templates for a Lyric Video or Visualizer
04:46 25How to Find a Freelancer to Editing a Music Video Template
03:28 26How to set up Amazon Affiliate Links and where to put them
05:32 27Outsource and create logo with Freelancer Competitions
08:52 28Creating a Print on Demand t-shirt with Merch by Amazon
11:02 29Thanks and Bye
00:19Lesson Info
Copyright and Royalties Overview
Hi. In this video, I'm gonna give you an overview of copyright and royalties. So if you're an independent music artist and you create music, you write songs and you get them produced, you are both the artist and the songwriter. So what do I mean by that? Because you might use those words quite interchangeably, but it's important to make a distinction because when you make a record and let's say you've made a record, you've hired a producer and you've hired a mixing engineer and you've hired a mastering engineer and then the mastering engineer gives you the master files or the master file. If it's a single, you own two pieces of copyright for that music as the artist, you own the sound recording, you own the audio recording. OK. So that's one piece of uh copyright that you do own and that's 100%. So that's 100% on the sound recording side or the artist side, otherwise known as masters. But you also own the song, you own the underlying composition, the lyrics, the melodies, the, the chor...
ds, whatever that song is, you own that. Now when you upload those masters to a digital service provider or distributor such as CD Baby or, or Tumor. And then they push them out to the stores, you know, the music platforms such as Spotify and itunes and Apple Music and then they collect money and pay it to you that, that money comes from mostly streams and, and sales of music by default, that's only getting you the royalties on the artist side. Ok. So sales and streams, all of that is going to you as the artist, but you are also entitled to the royalties as a songwriter. OK? And this can be divided up into, into many different things. But if you go through the normal process of going through A DS P and distributing your masters, unless you actually opt in for all of this other stuff, it's quite common that artists aren't collecting on the songwriter side as well. So it's very, very important to make that distinction. You might not have made that distinction up until now. But it's very important when you're navigating the music business that you understand the difference between the two. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
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