
Explore the five main functions of a music publisher, including acquisition, exploitation, and administration, and learn how they protect your songs, get paid through sound exchange, and collect royalties.
Register with your local PROs to collect royalties from broadcasts, streams, and film, and protect your works with Songtrust and SoundExchange.
Discover the bundle of rights that attach to every song—derivative works, reproduction, distribution, and performance. Learn how these rights apply from writing to recording, plus mechanical licenses and digital distribution.
Learn how to earn performance royalties through BMI and other PROs by registering as a publisher or artist, documenting setlists and performances to secure timely payments.
Discover how to avoid copyright strikes on YouTube and Facebook by using royalty-free music from YouTube Studio Audio Library and Facebook Sound Collection, and understand copyright claims versus strikes.
Learn how digital distribution works for music publishing, using aggregators to release to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, with annual fees, store options, and promo tips.
Explore crowdfunding for music projects, set concrete funding goals, and master promotion across social channels and platforms like Kickstarter and Patreon to finance your next single, EP, or album.
If you're a singer/songwriter, an artist, or just the copyright owner, whenever your music is streamed, covered, played on Terrestrial or Internet Radio, performed in public, or even consumed on YouTube, Facebook, you are owed music royalties.
In this course, you'll learn the ins and outs of this ever-changing music industry. Plus understanding how to collect your music royalties, even when you sleep. Plain and simple, how to make money FOREVER!!
Did you know that millions upon millions of dollars of Music Publishing royalties have not been collected because of either not registering your works properly, or the data is just not adding up?
If those royalties are yours, then you have every right to collect them! This course was designed for New and Independent Music Artists. Music Producers and Singer/Songwriters. Do not be afraid to earn what is rightfully yours! Music Publishing is the backbone of the Music Industry