SONGWRITING ROYALTIES VS PUBLISHING ROYALTIES VS PRODUCER ROYALTIES | SPLITS

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Mmm no, what people are entitled to depends on the basis on which they made their contribution. For example session singers and players nearly always work for hire. No royalty is owed. They could forego payment up front in return for royalty points but they undoubtedly know that the vast majority of music makes zero dollars.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge My question is what is the percentage of Royalties if The Artist and producer used royalty free loops to produce their music ?

why are we only getting 25% of the Writer Share and 25% of the Publisher share equlaing 50% of the royalties shouldn't we be getting 50% and 50% equaling 100% of the royalties?

What royalties do BMI collect? And how is the song registered? Is everyone involved going to register on BMI or the party in charge of putting out the song register and put everyone on?

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i have a question. if i self publish, and choose to make a free acct with bmi, does bmi hold publishing royalties? or would i receive the full 200%?

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Should you still add your own percentage amount if ur the one publishing the song
Or u just put what everyone else must get and the rest will be sent to u?

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Question.. I made a contract with my producer that he’s a work for hire. I pay him his fee and he produces the song and I own 100% of the rights. I wrote the lyrics, I came up with the chord progressions and I wrote the melody. He did the arrangements. Should I give him a percentage of songwriting credit even though we both agreed on the terms?

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im confused about something. the copyright registration process is for the 'sound recording' (form sr) - known as the 'masters'). and for the lyrics and musical notations (form pa) - which is known as the performing arts copyright [which includes the 'publishing rights']. why do you say the percentage of ownership of masters will always be IDENTICAL to the ownership of the publishing rights? this is not a hard and fast rule. say for example i am the soul author of the lyrics and musical notes and i performed the sound recording. in that case i would be 100% owner of the sound recording, or master. but that is independant of the 'publishing' side of things. if i know little to nothing about marketing my work on the publishing side of distribution - such as sheet music, sync usage fees, having other artists record my song - then it might be very attractive for me to have a 50%/50% split of profits by partnering with a music publisher. so in that case i would own 100% of my master, yet i might only own 50% of my publishing. can you elaborate?

This video is so valuable to those who needs to know how they are to monetize with their music! I speak to countless writers out there who kept wondering why they never got paid for their music that has been played in various mediums, well Thanks to you they do now!

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So as an artist That Writes My Own songs and record my own songs what should i register as ???

Thank you for this breakdown….💯🫡 been looking for a better understanding for so long.

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I contributed drums and percussion on two albums. Am I considered a writer by BMI standards?

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What about royalties for mastering. I think this came up with Taylor swift rerecording to get those royalties

Hi Tynia, great coaching thank you! Im on BMI and distr. via AWAL and am songwriter, question is if I pay musicians that help with inst. arrangement do I still list them as a writer if Id agreed to pay them as the sole exchange? Ok thank you!!!

Hi dear! Why is it pretty hard and long to register a song on BMI? I'm not sure if it's just me alone, but as a fresher in the music biz/hustle, a lot seems weird to me.

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Wow! You answered aaaaall my questions

Do all the members who have shared in a song have to register in BMI or ASCAP for them to collect?

can some on that is based in the uk register

Thank you for your clear and informative videos -- very helpful. Thank you as well for the downloadable materials.

Really appreciated!

How about the master?

And I understand that you don’t need ASCAP or BMI. If you’re not a performer am I right about that?

Thanks for the info. I have a question regarding the performer (artist) in BMI case.

Let's say my friend and me wrote a song (I was composer and arranger and my friend helped with the arrangement). For the recording, we asked his sister to record the vocals (she is the artist/performer).

In BMI (without a publisher), how do we split percentages? In my country, we don't enter percentage for performer in the submission because performing rights are subject to another regulations. We enter only creators (author of the lyrics, composser for melody and the arranger for the harmony).

The percentages are split by the regulations: composer gets the most, than the arranger and then the author it the lyrics. As you can see, it's oriented more towards the music creation.

Some clarity needs to be said in regards to this video. When we are talking about a "producer", we are NOT talking about someone who just "records the song / instrumental". In the context that NOT being said in the video, a producer has to have SOME of the creative involvement such as adding a melody line or extra bass line for example using the digital audio workstation (DAW) software... There are many songwriters who also act on their own as producers. Many producers are simply working in a recording engineer role in a recording studio. They record the song or instrumental as intended by the songwriter. Adding reverb, setting volume levels and mixing down tracks as normally done during recording of the song or instrumental, and as such doing that alone DOES NOT give a producer rights to royalties. This video implies that, and that is the wrong information to be disseminating to other new folks out here.

How you look up the the songwriter share

it's a damn shame, that Music Arrangers only get a onetime flat fee for their great contribution to a HIT song. and get NO royalties on record sales. MOST of the time, it's their music on a record/song, that make it sound much better, and become BIG HITS. the Music Arrangers have ALWAYS been the most robbed individuals in the history of the Music Business...here are just a few GREAT Music Arrangers. Thom Bell, Paul Riser, Richard Carpenter, James Anthony Carmichael, Charles Stepney, Stanley Applebaum, Norman Whitfield, Benjimin Wright.

Hey Tynia, quick question: Do you have any advice about actually collecting royalties? 

I'm a producer, and I sell my beats on beatstars. I've sold beats to dozens of artists. Yet only two have actually sent me publishing. One sent it to me no questions asked, and the other I asked and he kindly obliged. I tried asking a few more, but unfortunately I think I lost a few rappers' business over simply asking. Any advice? I don't wanna come across as a goon. But I do wish to collect the royalties that are spelled out in my contracts.

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Thank you Tynia 🙏🏼 I’m still wondering if the royalty percentage differs from the publisher/writer percentage. For example: what if I as a producer have a 50% publisher/writer percentage, do I still have to negotiate the royalty percentage apart from that?

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SO my question is really how the split shet works in reality. Do I have to pay 50% of royalties manually or will the colab artists be able to claim it with their publishers?

Oh my goodness, thank you Goddess. I have been out of the loop for a while now. Not on a major any more and am doing it on my own. This helps alot!!!

Hey there lady! I have a question for you I register myself and BMI as of song writer producer but now I can login because for some reason I cannot reset my password and when I reset my password is give him an error with the yellow window saying that I’m using the wrong characters and I change my password is still showing that window can you Splane to me why please thank you

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Thank you so much for this! We need more women talking about music , love to see it.

dear god, THANK YOU... 2 minutes in and i already understood more than any other video that tried to explain this

Super clear explanation - THANK YOU!