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4. Royalties as the Songwriter
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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
Royalties as the Songwriter
Hi. In this video, we're gonna talk about the royalties that you're entitled to as the songwriter of your music. Ok. So the first one to cover really are the mechanical royalties. So these are the royalties that are owed to songwriters when their songs are downloaded and streamed or manufactured to CD or vinyl. Ok. And like I said, this is a royalty that's entitled to songwriters. Ok? So if you are the artist on a song or if you're a performer, sorry, on a record, but someone else wrote the song, they would be entitled to the Mechanicals or the mechanical royalties. Now, if you are both and it's very likely that you are, if you're watching this video, if you are both the artist and the songwriter, you must make sure that you are collecting on the mechanical royalties, other royalties that you're entitled to as the songwriter are performance rights royalties that are owed to you. And when your music is used in live venues and, and radio stations and, and a vast majority of businesses, t...
hose businesses obtain blanket licenses from the performing rights organization or pr O in their territory. And then the pr O distributes and collects that money for publishers and songwriters. As an independent songwriter, you are probably also your own publishing company unless you have a publishing contract. So you must make sure that you are receiving royalties on both 50% of that side. So as a songwriter without a publishing company, you are entitled to 100% of the royalties on the songwriters side. But in some cases, you might need to sign up to Apr O as both the songwriter or as the um and as the publisher as well. OK. So you must make sure that you're doing that. In some cases, you can just sign up as both. Now, the easiest way to collect all of your royalties as an independent artist is to sign up or opt in with your distributors with your D SPS, publishing admin uh services. So a few of the big guys such as CD Baby or Tumor will allow you to opt in and possibly pay extra for publishing admin services. Generally speaking, I recommend that people do do that just because it's easier even if you do pay a little bit more. But if it means it's easier for you to not leave money on the table, then that's just the best way to do it and you can collect all of that money under one roof, hope that's useful. And I'll see you in the next video.
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