MUSIC PUBLISHING RIGHTS
For Composers, Songwriters & Publishers
These are the rights, which composer/songwriters and music publishers hold to the copyright in musical works. A “musical work” being the composition encompassing the melody, chord structure and lyrics etc. within any piece of recorded music.
Whether this musical work is broadcast on a TV or radio station, publicly performed, set to film or picture, reproduced on a physical product or made available to consumers electronically via the internet and a multitude of other forms, these uses must be licensed in return for license fees and royalties payable therefor. In nearly all developed territories, most music publishing rights are managed by and royalties distributed via collective rights management organisations (”collection societies”) on behalf of their writer and/or publisher members.
We have built up considerable expertise and direct collections infrastructure far surpassing those of large organisations, but with considerably lower overheads. Our advanced workflows and attention enables us to recover royalties others often would not, to drastically improve the effective registration and licensing of rights, which in turn increase royalties distributed and to substantially reduce the time it takes for incomes to be paid.
Most music publishers will simply register works with collection societies and hope for the best. Some will be wholly unaware of or unwilling to deal with the nuances of society distribution policy that will or already have led to lost income and carry out the work to secure the distribution of retrospective incomes that often will not be paid automatically. We repeatedly go out of our way to ensure to the full extent possible that all royalty distributions due are made.
WHY WORK WITH US?
DIRECT AFFILIATIONS
MULTI-TERRITORY ONLINE RIGHTS LICENSING
COMPREHENSIVE ADMINISTRATION
FAST & DETAILED ACCOUNTING
FLEXIBLE & COMPETETIVE DEAL TERMS
Global Reach, Local Expertise
We are experienced members of, register works with, make claims to and receive distributions directly from the national or regional rights organisations covering most major and many minor territories. Where we are not directly affiliated, we work with the best sub-publishers and reciprocal networks.
GERMANY
GEMA
ALBANIA
GEMA
ALBANIA
GEMA
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
GEMA
BULGARIA
GEMA
CROATIA
GEMA
MACEDONIA
GEMA
ROMANIA
GEMA
SERBIA
GEMA
SLOVENIA
GEMA
ISRAEL
ACUM
AUSTRIA
AKM
AUME
UNITED STATES
ASCAP
BMI
SESAC
HFA
MUSIC REPORTS
NETHERLANDS
BUMA/STEMRA
CANADA
SOCAN
CMRRA
IRELAND
IRELAND
UNITED KINGDOM
PRS
MCPS
NORWAY
STIM
NCB
SWEDEN
STIM
NCB
DENMARK
STIM
NCB
FINLAND
STIM
NCB
ICELAND
STIM
NCB
LITHUANIA
STIM
NCB
ESTONIA
STIM
NCB
LATVIA
STIM
NCB
CZECH REPUBLIC
OSA
SLOVAKIA
OSA
HUNGARY
OSA
BELGIUM
SABAM
FRANCE
SACEM
BENIN
SACEM
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
SACEM
CONGO
SACEM
CAMEROON
SACEM
LEBANON
SACEM
LUXEMBOURG
SACEM
MONACO
SACEM
MADAGASCAR
SACEM
MALI
SACEM
NEW CALEDONIA
SACEM
NIGER
SACEM
FRENCH POLYNESIA
SACEM
SENEGAL
SACEM
TOGO
SACEM
MOROCCO
SACEM
SPAIN
SGAE
SWITZERLAND
SUISA
POLAND
ZAIKS
JAPAN
FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
BROMA 16
ARMENIA
BROMA 16
AZERBAIJAN
BROMA 16
BELARUS
KAZAKHSTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
MOLDOVA
TAJIKISTAN
TURKMENISTAN
UKRAINE
UZBEKISTAN
GEORGIA
MEXICO
SACM
BRAZIL
ABRAMUS
PORTUGAL
SPA
BANGLADESH
MCPS
GUYANA
MCPS
MAURITIUS
MCPS
PAKISTAN
MCPS
SIERRA LEONE
MCPS
SRI LANKA
MCPS
TONGA
MCPS
PRS & MCPS
PRS
MCPS
BAHAMAS
PRS
MCPS
FRANCE
SACEM
BELIZE
PRS
MCPS
CYPRUS
PRS
MCPS
GHANA
PRS
MCPS
KENYA
PRS
MCPS
MALAWI
PRS
MCPS
MALTA
PRS
MCPS
NIGERIA
PRS
MCPS
SEYCHELLES
PRS
MCPS
TANZANIA
PRS
MCPS
UGANDA
PRS
MCPS
ZAMBIA
PRS
MCPS
ZIMBABWE
PRS
MCPS
DOMINICA
SGAE
DOMINICA
SGAE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
SGAE
GRENADA
SGAE
HAITI
SGAE
JAMAICA
SGAE
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
SGAE
SAINT LUCIA
SGAE
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
SGAE
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
SGAE
COSTA RICA
SGAE
EL SALVADOR
SGAE
GUATEMALA
SGAE
HONDURAS
SGAE
NICARAGUA
SGAE
PANAMA
SGAE
SPAIN
SGAE
ARGENTINA
SGAE
BOLIVIA
SGAE
CHILE
SGAE
COLOMBIA
SGAE
ECUADOR
SGAE
PARAGUAY
SGAE
PERU
SGAE
SURINAME
SGAE
URUGUAY
SGAE
VENEZUELA
SGAE
HONG KONG
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
SINGAPORE
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
MALAYSIA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
CHINA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
PHILIPPINES
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
KOREA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
THAILAND
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
INDONESIA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
VIET NAM
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
CAMBODIA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
INDIA
Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia)
Multi-Territory Online Usage For Anglo-American Repertoire Administered Through One Single Point
Anglo-American repertoire (IE: shares of works not written by a continental European rights organisation member) Online Rights licensing and distribution carried out through a single point multi-territory licensing hub – the Independent Music Publishers’ Electronic Licensing (‘IMPEL’) initiative, a small collective of music publishers at the forefront of digital music rights granting rights to digital service providers operating in multiple territories on a pan-European and even further basis.
The one-stop shop hubs model brings substantial improvements to the flawed local society licensing and distribution regime with greatly improved transparency, accuracy of music usage matching, licensing and subsequently maximised and faster royalty distributions.
AND MANY MORE..
Just Registering Works Isn't Enough. The Devil Is In The Detail
We process unidentified works, music reporting, A/V productions and interested parties data in order to identify usage and copyrights and claim for royalties that would never otherwise be paid, because a collection society is often unable to match, identify or obtain related data itself.
UNIDENTIFIED CLAIMS
Fuzzy Matching
Unlike most publishing rights administrators, we go as far as undertaking some of the roles of a collection society itself, by processing its own music usage and copyright data, where such data is made available to us. We compare millions of lines of such data to our copyright databases using sophisticated computer matching systems in order to identify music usage and other data.
In order to pay the correct interested parties, rights organisations must regularly match enormous music reporting datasets to vast repertoire datasets. To accurately match with confidence, the reported data cannot be allowed to differ greatly from the registered data on file, otherwise the society is at risk of incorrectly matching and paying the wrong persons. Therefore, high matching score thresholds are usually applied by these organisations.
The quality of music usage reporting is often very poord. Lower matching scores will be produced when such bad quality data is compared to registered data, and therefore high matching score thresholds mean that legitimate low score matches are being ignored.
In order to identify and successfully match poor quality data, matching score thresholds must be lowered. This will however inherently produce many potentially incorrect matches which need to be reviewed by a human, in order to avoid ‘false positive’ matches that would result in royalties being paid incorrectly.
In comparison to the collection societies, we have a much smaller repertoire dataset which, combined with diligent human resources and more advanced algorithms, allow us to apply lower matching scores and successfully identify data that the rights organisations will not.
REGISTERED
Main Artist Ft. Featured Artist – New Song
ONLY 55% MATCHING SCORE
- 55%
REPORTED
Main Artist – New Song Ft. Featured Artist (Remix)
THEIR MINIMUM REQUIRED MATCHING SCORE
OUR MINIMUM REQUIRED MATCHING SCORE
NO ROYALTY PAYMENT
ROYALTY PAYMENT
CUE SHEET MANAGEMENT
Missing Cue Sheets
We match lists of audio-visual productions that rights organisation do not hold cue sheet data for, and submit cue sheet data.
A/V Production Title Translations
The translation of foreign audio-visual productions into local languages can be a problem. We have access to rights organisation tools such as CIS-net AV Index to aid in the linking of translated titles to original titles.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCE CLAIMS
Notify & Claim Live Performances
Live performance incomes are a vital revenue stream. Where writers are performing their own works at concert and other venues, we ingest performance and venue data and submit live performance claims to performing rights organisation for major and even small events in most territories including, unlike most publishers, the USA.
Scan Third Party Live Performance Data
We even ingest third party live performance information, such as a major DJ’s etc, match tracklist data and submit claims to performing rights organisations appropriately.
TIME SENSITIVE CLAIMS
Limitations Periods
Music publishing rights organisations don’t hold unclaimed royalties forever. Limitations periods vary hugely from one territory to another, often just 3 years. In some cases, rights organisations legally cannot license the use of repertoire to which they have not been specifically granted rights by copyright holders, and administration must be put in place very quickly to secure income from their licensing operations.
Prioritised Claims
We know where to look to recover historic incomes and when to act fast to prevent revenues from being lost.
Quarterly Accounting
We render statements of royalties received and due on a quarterly basis, 60 days from the end of each calendar quarter.
Full Service Accounting For Original Publishers
We are able to render full writer net royalty statements on behalf of original publishers we administer.
Exceptionally Detailed Statements
We generate royalty statements containing all source, licensee, territory, income type hierarchy and usage detail available.
Online Portal
Online client portal providing access to accounting data and more – launching 2018.
Flexible Agreements
Short term, favorable agreements on a territory by territory basis.
Non-Exclusive Synchronization Rights
Allowing clients to persue their own direct synchronization licensing opportunities.
High At Source Royalty Rate Deals
Highly favorable royalty rates calculated on an at source basis with no hidden deductions.