Music Publishing Category

How Music Industry Works: A Complete Beginner Guide

Music industry is one of the best industries to work with if you are a musician. Like all businesses, this type of industry is often misunderstood particularly for beginners dreaming to become big rock stars, pop stars, etc. The same with other industr …

What is a Mechanical License Agreement or Music Reproduction License?

You need a mechanical license agreement if you are planning to do the following: 1.) You are planning to cover a song written by another songwriter and sell it on a CD or any mechanical forms of recording (vinyl, cassette tape). 2.) You are a movie pro …

When does music fall into the public domain? Music Licensing Guide

You might ask this important and confusing question: “When does music classified as public domain material?”. Typically as a background: 1.) All music for licensing are copyrighted materials. Whether they advertise themselves as “royalty-free”; the mus …

Hire music producer: Basic Tips and Guidelines

If you’re an artist, band or songwriter; do you want to hire a record producer? It is very important that you understand what a producer can do to your projects as well as their expertise. If you know their job description very well, then it’s much eas …

Public Performance Music License: Important information

One of the most confusing aspects of music licensing is the “public performance” part. So many licensees (even coming from radio, TV, film and movie production) do not fully understand the meaning of this term. This blog posts contains all the informat …