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- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Re: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters?
What they're telling me is if peace of mind is worth $85, then register the derivative works of your own songs. But other than that it's like a waste of money. "Damages" in an actual infringement case are a very grey area. The thing I have in the back of my mind is quite ridiculous: A judge asks for ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Re: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters?
I agree with Watchmaker, I think you're confusing things. You've registered a copyright on the songs. Registering a copyright on the mastered recordings is not a derivative work, it is a separate copyright. If you want to be fully protected* then you need to do both. It would be worth reading up a ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Re: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters?
I just thought of something else. If this makes sense to anyone please reply: I have already secured copyright registration for authorship of the songs. Even though I've created "derivative" works by adding instrumentation to the sound recordings submitted at the time of registration, given now I ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Re: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters?
If you are an artist and producer and claim both the song and the master, you can file once and claim both in one shot. That is what you are supposed to do so you don’t have to pay twice. Form SR can be used for both, if the parties are exactly the same for both song and master. https://www.c ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Re: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters?
I'm in the United States of America. Songs were registered with the US Library Of Congress Copyright Office, but again though these recordings were adequate to demonstrate the songs, the recordings were not quite finished and the mastered recordings have additional instrumentation added. I should ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters?
There are two types of copyrights, one for the song and one for the recording. I understand the value of registering a copyright for the sake of the song, and as a songwriter I submitted recordings for the songs using recordings that were not yet finished but that clearly demonstrated the song ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Is It Necessary For Songwriter To Copyright Masters? Replies: 16 Views: 1306
Re: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
Right. With Pro Publishing deal CDBaby takes 15%. But if they do a sync licensing deal for you I believe it's more like 40%. With all these distributors it looks like either you pay up front a high amount and then get to keep all your royalties, or you pay a meager fee and the distributor takes a ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
Re: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
What advantage is there going with CDBaby Pro? Well, first let's recap my own dilemma (now altered because of new knowledge regarding the limits of a copyright holder): If after I release one of my songs in recorded form I cannot stop another artist from doing a cover of it as long as the person ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
Re: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
Here's something else I just discovered today (with some help). Once you as songwriter/copyright owner release the first version of your song, you can't stop another artist from doing a cover version if they obtain a mechanical license (and a sync license if they do a video of the cover version ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
Re: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
The situation you describe is easily avoidable. Most distribution platforms do NOT do what you describe and if you have found that language in the CDBaby terms simply use one of the many other platforms that do not do this kind of thing. If the distributor is also a "publishing administrator," then ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
Re: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
Or you could consider that if a cover is going to massively outsell your own version what does that say about your own version? It could be that there hasn't been enough time for my version to get attention. Of course, an indie artist doesn't have resources like one of the five major record labels ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
Re: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
I appreciate the responses above and Thanks. I know from another forum many people say that for an unknown artist exposure of your music trumps control over it, and that when someone does a cover of your song it CAN be a good thing (assuming it's done legally). However, there's more than just my ego ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ?
I'm so stuck on this issue it's holding up the release of my music. The basic issue is you're an emerging independent artist, a singer-songwriter, and you're performing your own works. Do you: 1. Go with a distributor that also acts like a "publishing administrator" (e.g., CDBaby) to exploit your ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: New Artists: Do You Want Other Artists Covering Your Songs ? Replies: 30 Views: 1080
Anyone Familiar with CDBaby Pro Publishing?
I've tried to reach out to reps with CDBaby and I'm not getting a response. Hoping someone here might have had the same concerns as me if they signed up for CDBaby Pro Publishing deal. They affiliate you with BMI or ASCAP and will collect royalties for streaming over the internet, which those two ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Anyone Familiar with CDBaby Pro Publishing? Replies: 2 Views: 1134
Re: How Far Does a Music Distributor's Rights Really go?
I received a reply from CDBaby rep. Note there's an addendum to the contract agreement that is for sync licensing, and by signing it you're giving CDBaby the okay to have your music appear in things like videos, movies, video games, etc. I had a question about whether the songwriter/member is ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: How Far Does a Music Distributor's Rights Really go? Replies: 7 Views: 376
Re: CDBbay Pro vs Songtrust
You are missing the fact that Spotify et al make two payments for each play. The recording element (roughly 0.3p in the UK) and the writers element (roughly 0.1p in the UK). CD Baby will collect the recording element for you but you need to sign up to PRO or one of the other schemes discussed ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: CDBbay Pro vs Songtrust Replies: 10 Views: 1399
Re: How Far Does a Music Distributor's Rights Really go?
Thanks for the replies. I contacted CDBaby on this. Waiting for a response.
- Forum: Music Business Topic: How Far Does a Music Distributor's Rights Really go? Replies: 7 Views: 376
Re: CDBbay Pro vs Songtrust
However isn't it better to pay the one off fee with Songtrust and then go for the standard CDBbaby release, and Songtrust will do that work from then on with no other outlay? Within a few tracks you will have made the money spent back vs CDBaby Pro . Here's what I'm reading from the Songtrust ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: CDBbay Pro vs Songtrust Replies: 10 Views: 1399
- Forum: Music Business Topic: CDBbay Pro vs Songtrust Replies: 10 Views: 1399
How Far Does a Music Distributor's Rights Really go?
I'm thinking of going with CDBaby as a distributor for my first release, but I'm going to be straight and admit some sections of their member contract agreement (available here: https://cdbaby.com/membercontract.aspx ) are scaring me away from signing up. That's because some of this language looks ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: How Far Does a Music Distributor's Rights Really go? Replies: 7 Views: 376
Re: Why are UPC codes so important?
An ISRC Code is a specific code generated by your distributor in most cases that tracks sales, plays and radio spins of a specific track, while the code given to the entire album is called the UPC, but essentially does the same thing. This ISRC code can be PERMANENTLY coded into the actual sound ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Why are UPC codes so important? Replies: 3 Views: 393
Why are UPC codes so important?
Looking to release soon on Bandcamp, but there will be a three week delay with CDBaby (because that's how they do it for some reason). Bandcamp doesn't provide UPC codes for your tracks but CDBaby does. Are these codes really so important that you shouldn't release an album without them? If it's ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Why are UPC codes so important? Replies: 3 Views: 393
Re: Musician Bios: How to Not Ruin Your Career?
I am not a musician... Like it or not, musicians are part of the entertainment industry. If you don't want to be caught up in the (sic) "capitalist/social Darwinistic shite" then write your songs and sell them to someone else to perform. You can't have it both ways. Sounds a bit disgruntled to me ...
- Forum: Music Business Topic: Musician Bios: How to Not Ruin Your Career? Replies: 19 Views: 937