J. Anthony AllenComposer, Producer, Music Educator, Entrepreneur

The Musician's Guide to Publishing & Performing Rights

Name: The Musician's Guide to Publishing & Performing Rights
Uploaded: 2021-11-16T19:37:12+00:00
Duration: 2 min 39 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this introductory class, J. Anthony Allen explains the fundamentals of music publishing and performing rights, emphasizing how they generate income…

16 Nov 2021 · 3 min

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In this introductory class, J. Anthony Allen explains the fundamentals of music publishing and performing rights, emphasizing how they generate income for musicians. He clarifies that publishing refers to licensing a song for use in TV, film, commercials, video games, and other media, and that without proper publishing setup musicians miss out on revenue. He then introduces performing rights, describing how royalties are generated every time a song is played publicly, and points out that many musicians are unaware of how to collect these royalties. Allen promises to walk viewers through the essential steps to set up both publishing and performing rights so that creators can capture all available earnings from their existing music.

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Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Musician's Guide to Publishing and Performing Rites. So what are we talking about with publishing? Are we talking about, like, writing books and stuff? No, this has nothing to do with writing books. Publishing in the music world is how you make money. Really, what we're talking about here is the way somebody can license your music from you to be used in other things, like a TV show or a commercial or a movie or a video game. Any of that stuff. You have to have publishing set up in order to take advantage of those. Otherwise you're missing out on money. It's a weird term we use, but it is the correct term. Now, one thing that goes hand in hand with this is something called performing rights. This is another way that we make money. In fact, one of the craziest things about performing rights is that so many musicians don't know how to set up themselves to make money from their performing rights. There is literally money generated every time you play a song. I'm not making that up. If you don't set up the right things, you will never see that money. But if you do take a few minutes to set something up, that money will come to you. And then if you do one more step, it'll come to you double. But you have to know how to do it. And that's what we're going to cover in this class. Publishing and performing rights. It's all about how to get paid for the music that you've already made.
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