Hi great video 💯. I'm going to copyright 10 songs. Just wondering how long I should wait before releasing my album through TuneCore? I'd like to register with ASCAP but with my budget I'd have to do that at a later time. I'm the author of the sound recording and composition & lyrics, etc Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!
I sent a message to ASCAP a couple weeks ago and I still haven't received a response. Perhaps you can provide an answer. I want to publish a work that I didn't write, but I don't know how to get a hold of the copyright owner. I know his name and where he lived over 20 years ago. I found a couple of email addresses, but they're no good. So I mentioned all this in my message to ASCAP and, since this guy was (is?) a professional musician with publishing credits, I asked if they would contact him and tell him I want to publish one of his tunes. He's got to be a member of either ASCAP or BMI and I'm figuring even if he might be a member of BMI, ASCAP should still have a way to contact him.
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ama release my first debut single, i understood that i better register it before its actually released, as for samples used in my new track i actually made a remake for some existing song but mine is totally dfferent , i mean same vibe but different in sound, shall i mention am using some existing sample in my song? or i should not mention it?
Great Video! Great Insight. As a longtime beatmaker and award winning the only thing I would add is I submitted 100 + beats to Sony TV for a TV Show and many were used, I did need to register those beats with BMI or ASCAP to get paid publishing that I still receive. Beatmakers don't need to publish their beats unless they will be used in this type of way as a song beat.
@@IndieMusicAcademy Question: What if you want to keep your government name out of public records and only let your artist name show up? what should I do?
Appreciate the video, however, seems misleading to use ASCAP in title when you only reference BMI's process. ASCAP has you register as a publisher separately and you can do that as an individual/sole proprietor - you don't have to be incorporated - but then you can get both writer and publisher royalties. Not sure of their registration process which is why I clicked. The whole CD baby pro publishing (replaced by CDB Boost in August 2023, with legacy releases still supported) is confusing with the PROs though. Especially as CD Baby is technically a 'distributor' that only 'administrates' your publisher pay-outs (for a fee of course). The language they use makes them sound like they are taking the role of your publisher. Add the issues of Songtrust and the MLC on top of it and it is even more confusing. I'd like more clarity on those. The new CDB Boost is supposed to finally include Songtrust and MLC registrations also, but if not using such a service (for an extra fee of course) my understanding is that the artist would need to register themselves and their songs with a PRO and Songtrust and The MLC to be fully covered. It's such a mess.
Subscribed....Man! Straight to the point luv it! Question: What is the purpose of getting your own publishing with the PROs if you can just collect them by putting 200% in the writers column?
Eye opening! Could you please kindly make a video with guidance for us sampling artists who use excerpts from other songs to create "originals" or remixes?
the explanation for uploading a multiple track album or EP asnt elaborated enough in my opinion honestly because do e need to upload the tiltle of the project// i need a step by step alkthrough plesase
I am a singer /songwriter and use my own instruments for my music....I feel SO LOST cause I am SO NEW to ALL this !! I'm not stalking you...just following your videos. Asking questions as I listen to each one to try n learn ! thank you
Amazing video!!! As a lyric writer would you do a separate uploading from the singer for your royalties or would your name just be added as a songwriter through the singer on bmi and that’s how you’d retrieve royalties?
Excellent information thanks! I have question that maybe you already answered it, but I am still confused. How does BMI know which songs belongs to the songwriter when being played on Spotify? I registered a song on BMI and then the artist that recorded the song uploaded it to Spotify, but I saw that he typed my name incorrectly on Song credits. Would that affect me getting the royalties?
As long as you've submitted your registration correctly under your BMI account and it's linked to the correct artist, you're good. They don't use Spotify writer info to confirm shares. 👍 I believe the artist can still correct your name spelling through their Spotify account, though.
Great content! Make sure that you double check your aka's when you use the "copy/paste" feature when registering songs from an album so that you don't end up copying one aka meant for one song across all of them.
Regarding your comment about how to register a 15-song album, it's worth noting that the Copyright Office looks at things differently, and you should mention this. The Copyright Office has a form you will fill out for a group of works, but it is limited to only 10 works. So, if you want to register a 15-song album with the US Copyright Office; you have to fill out TWO forms and then pay TWO submission payments. It is for this reason that all of my albums now contain 10 songs or fewer. I don't have a big copyright budget to deal with this. It can quickly add up if I want to have albums with more than 10 songs. Also, you mention only how BMI does things. I'm a member of ASCAP. It would have been nice to see from you how ASCAP handles things.
Hi, just a quick question...when you registered your 10 song album was this done online? I wanted to register 10 songs the composition and sound recording. I'm not sure if the system would allow me to continue if I typed in the Album title as the title plus the songs would be 11 line items and the US Copyright has a walkthrough video that shows it would generate an error for more than 10 line items. Just wondering if you were familiar with this or ran into an issue when registering. Thank you!
Hello! Thank you for taking time to answer questions! I collaborated with another Artist on a song featured on his album. It is about to be released. He bought the beat from someone. I don't have the beat maker's info. I am with ASCAP, and also own my publishing. 1. When registering my work, do I give myself 50% and the other writer 50%, then under publishing, give myself 100%? 2. Do I have to list the beatmaker since I don't have his info?
Very informative -- thank you. Every time I think I know this subject, I find there's more to learn. I do have two questions: When you register with the Copyright Office, do you need to provide both sound recording AND sheet music? Or will either one suffice as protection for the other? When you use the option of registering 20 songs at a time, does it matter how those songs are then marketed? For example, 20 songs that appear for sale on two different CDs (or digital albums)
Ok, so I composed and recorded an original song. I registered it on BMI. I distributed the audio recording using CD Baby. Am I fully copyright protected now, or do I still need to register it with the US copyright office? Do I also need to register it with a Publishing Administrator? Thanks in advance for your advice!
You still should register with Copyright office to protect your work & go to court if someone infringes. From my understanding you only need a publishing administrator if you are looking for help getting sync licence placements
Can i register songs that haven't been mixed and mastered on BMI, i have 4 tracks ep ready but i want to protect work in every possible way i can be for sending out for proper mixing and mastering, am also open to other ways i can protect my work. thank you for the good work you do, YOUR THE BEST
Ryan, you do a great job. Something I missed, when I pulled up SOUND TRUST, I got SONG TRUST. Does Sound Trust own Song Trust? One of these paid a better royalty to singers, if I understood that right. Thank you for your time.
Thanks for your info. I have been using CDbaby Pro and they register with BMI for me. Now I am leaving CDbaby to another distributor who does not take care of BMI for me. Do I need to re-register all my previous work or make any changes with BMI?
Hello, great video! I just have a quick question regarding the collection of publishing royalties. You mention that by writing 200% on BMI, this would eliminate the need for Songtrust? I'd be very happy if that's the case!
Nice, but sounds like a commercial for BMI lol. Still, thank you for all the info! very helpful in making the decisions on who to use in a start-up music career.
Thanks for the info but I’m a little frustrated with BMI because I registered my album Run to the mountain and for some reason there’s not records of it in BMI. I thought I did everything right. I could appreciate some help on this. Thanks.
So interesting and so educational! I would be very grateful if you’d talk about everything that’s connected to the tour part, who gets what and etc, thank you in advance!
If one of the writers is on ASCAP, how do you input their info in BMI? And vice versa how do you register a work with ASCAP when one of the writers is BMI? It gets confusing because the ASCAP person will have a publishing account and the BMI person usually won't.
Really interesting videos!!! Thanks! What do you suggest to take care or pay attention for sync music composer (instrumental orchestral)... my goal is to register to ASCAP? Any advice about it? Awal+soundexchange+ASCAP sounds good? enough? :-)
Really great! Quick question based on "How to register an album". If I released 1 song from the album a couple weeks before releasing the album such that there is a "single" version of the song and an "album" version of the song, do I create two submissions for that or rather create one submission and in the "Recordings" part add one recording as type "Single" and a 2nd recording as type "album"
Thank you for this! I still have a question after watching this video & your video about registering as a publisher - if I am a BMI writer & I have my own publishing imprint via BMI - I'm confused about setting the right % if there are multiple composers involved. If I want the writer's splits to match the publishing royalties, does this mean my publishing company still collects 100% or I also split up that 100% to match the Writer's splits? This is hard to describe! Not sure if it's making sense...
Great video and recommendations! Quick question... if I am registering some songs on BMI with a co-writer (we are dividing our songs equally for music & lyrics), should I put 100% for myself and 100% for my co-writer? Also we do not have a publisher, so this obviously still adds up to the 200%. I just want to make sure I am doing this correctly? Again, much appreciation for your insights and all the great videos!
Only thing I don’t agree with is not registering beats just because they are without lyrics. Instrumental music is a genre. I’ve gotten some pretty decent royalty payouts just from folks listening to my instrumentals.
Really helpful, thank you. As both BMI and ASCAP are US based, in the event that our song ends up in a foreign film track (let’s say) will we still receive a royalty ?
Great video! but I'm still confused about two things: 1) does registration through a PLO IPI equal copyrighting a song? 2) how long does a snippet that i used of another copyrighted song have to be so that it can be called sampling that record? and what if i use a small snippet that i loop over and over again just a background texture? etc. things like that. I know it's a whole seperate subjects, but could you summarize the main things about this in a few sentences? Thanks :)
Thank you very much for such an insightful video Ryan, this is very helpful and explains many steps in the registration process! I am just curious, if my work contains sounds or a loop from the samples which were provided with the DAW when I purchased it (Ableton), does this mean my song technically contains samples?
Hey... can you make a video about all these organizations pay schedule. When and how often does BMI, Ascap, Songtrust, distrokid and Soundexchange pay royalties to their members? If I've taken care all my business and I'm posting my music on the streaming platforms for the first time... who will I get royalties payments from first and how long would that take?
so with regard to samples, if I'm using a program to do my drum track such as Ez drummer on an album do I need to put in the BMI registration that I'm using samples
Great video. Myself and co-writer wrote a song, he recorded a demo that we can shop around to publishers and artists. . I can go ahead and register our song now with BMI, right? I leave the “publisher” section blank, and we can add a publisher and/or artist later on down the road if the song gets up by a publisher or recorded by an artist, right? Thanks very much. Great and super helpful video!
I really need to knw how to go about giving agreement on songs I produced as a music producer from what stage to what do I do a split and get royalties
Great video ! Thank you for clarifying so many things in this video. I have a question . I used CD Baby distribute and release my song . When i register my song at BMY do I put CD baby as Publisher? ...
Great video. What do you recommend for a composer who wants to make music to sell on his own website, and sell usage licenses? I should register the music in BMI (or equivalent), or I should not register it, since I am interested in whether it is ROYALTY FREE. On the other hand, should I register all of them in BMI and better license them to buyers so they can then monetize through a Content ID dispute on TH-cam? Sorry if it sounds confusing, I just don't know how to explain it.
I have a question, let’s say I don’t own the beat , but I own the lyrics and performed the vocals . What would that be considered as (cover, original, etc…) And do I get any type of royalties from my lyrics even tho I don’t own the beat that it was performed on ?
Great info! I have my original song on cdbaby and re-record it with added harmonies and some other instrument parts kept the same title and lyrics. I want to remove the old version song from all streaming and download platforms and replace it with the new version. Does the new re-recorded version song need a new ISRC or can I use the ISRC from the original old version song? Thanks
if you don't have any music distributor code about your music distributor on BMI I’ll be mine do you still get paid number music song can you get paid for music with a different way or do you gotta go to a music distributor to get all your money?
Aaarrrrggghhh! I just went through a 7-day sync ready challenge with Michael Elsner. Michael said to sign up as a songwriter AND as a publisher on BMI in order to get 200% of your royalties. So, I established Songwriter Stephanie Phillips Music as my publishing entity. Is that wrong?? Will I regret that?
On number 2. Samples. I use Splice. Do I have to choose that I have used samples? As a subscriber to splice I don't have to pay royalties.Thanking you in anticipation.
Appreciate this video...very informative. You mentioned that Beats makers don't have to register until there are lyrics...what if I'm releasing a Instrumental album? Is that not considered complete because there are no lyrics?
If I already have a BMI account as both a writer and publisher believe the most direct way to move forward as an independent artist is to simply distribute via CDBaby, Ditto, etc. then handle all of the rest within BMI (song registration) and avoid using the aforementioned for any publishing management. Also no need for Songtrust. Make sense?
can you do a video about sync licensing, I would like to pitch in my beats for companies to use my beat but I know you need to have P.O.R which I have BMI but still not sure how this work, and would like to get a better understanding by registering them or do I not?
Excellent. But this does not cover ASCAP as implied in the title. I recogize that the IMA is obviously registered with BMI rather than ASCAP. But having it in the tiel, I would expect to at least mention rather ASCAP has the same work around to make sure you get both the writer and publisher share withouth creating a separate account.
Indie, do you have an opinion on change of BMI to become a for-profit PRO after decades of being non-profit? Is it still safe to use BMI after they're sold to a private equity firm? And finally, is it easy to switch songs over to ASCAP for royalties once BMI gets looted by investors and saddled with debt? Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate your videos. (Long time subscriber here.)
I've done songwriting before but have never released material or music before. I live in the UK. What website/software would you recommend for copyrighting? Also, how much time do i need to leave between copyrighting my song and releasing my song?
Thanks for this. Very helpful. Two questions, please. First, I'm helping an artist register some of his back catalog, but some are from quite a long time ago and he knows only the release year and not the month and day. Can we just give an approximate month and day? Second, in the Artists and Recording section, when the form asks for "are then any artists?", would this be any one performing on the record, or is it only other artists who might share rights?
I don't understand, I've registered all my songs on ASCAP, and have received basically no money (less than 5 dollars), yet I have gotten over 1.5 million streams on Spotify alone over the last 3 years. I've reached out to ASCAP, and they've just given me generic responses about how they only pay out quarterly, but I'm getting roughly 25k streams on one song alone, quarterly.
Thanks for the video. Just had a question, should your BMI account be your legal name or aritst name? I made it my legal name but when I search my artist name on songview theres no IPI# any thoughts?
Hello, thanks for the videos, they help a lot. Question: if I distribute an artist’s song after he has released the video on TH-cam, will the distribution platform or BMI take down the song? : Do you recommend one rpm for distribution and how do I link it with BMI? Thanks
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Hi great video 💯. I'm going to copyright 10 songs. Just wondering how long I should wait before releasing my album through TuneCore? I'd like to register with ASCAP but with my budget I'd have to do that at a later time. I'm the author of the sound recording and composition & lyrics, etc
Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!
I sent a message to ASCAP a couple weeks ago and I still haven't received a response. Perhaps you can provide an answer.
I want to publish a work that I didn't write, but I don't know how to get a hold of the copyright owner. I know his name and where he lived over 20 years ago. I found a couple of email addresses, but they're no good. So I mentioned all this in my message to ASCAP and, since this guy was (is?) a professional musician with publishing credits, I asked if they would contact him and tell him I want to publish one of his tunes. He's got to be a member of either ASCAP or BMI and I'm figuring even if he might be a member of BMI, ASCAP should still have a way to contact him.
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I believe most people would understand what I'm saying, if they had some basic knowledge of my "story" about how & why I began to make- produce music just over 5 yrs ago, starting from Absolute ZEE ROW. Zero, in EVERY way you can think of. Short of Death. Seriously. ▫◽◻⬜⚪⬜◻◽▫▫◽◻⬜⚪⬜◻◽▫
Today, upon reflecting on the Magnitude of my undertaking of this direction of my life, given what happened to change it, and what I had to work with, it is all but IMPOSSIBLE to believe, even harder to wrap most heads around including mine. I have to keep reminding myself to be VERY appreciative of my accomplishments so far. They are Very considerable. Almost a miracle.▫◽◻⬜⚪⬜◻◽▫▫◽◻⬜⚪⬜◻◽▫▫◽◻⬜⚪⬜◻◽▫
One of these days I would like to tell an Astonishing 100% True story about this, because IT wants and Need telling.
I believe it might & Can help a LOT of people, especially young people who may be feeling overwhelmed by life, in these days and those coming. It could even save their lives, in these uncertain, ever changing and dangerous times.
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We are all in trouble. A FACT. The only way to make the world a better place to live in - Begins with ourselves.
There is "Danger AND Opportunity. " (DAO)☯
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~~ Anyway I just wanted to express My gratitude, For All your work and the "Labour Of Love" I can clearly recognize, shining through your videos. ⚡ From my core - Thank You.🌪⛈🌩🌨🌧🌦🌥🌤
ama release my first debut single, i understood that i better register it before its actually released, as for samples used in my new track i actually made a remake for some existing song but mine is totally dfferent , i mean same vibe but different in sound, shall i mention am using some existing sample in my song? or i should not mention it?
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wow! That 200% tip was something I never knew about. I just set up publishing for myself. No need!
Great Video! Great Insight. As a longtime beatmaker and award winning the only thing I would add is I submitted 100 + beats to Sony TV for a TV Show and many were used, I did need to register those beats with BMI or ASCAP to get paid publishing that I still receive. Beatmakers don't need to publish their beats unless they will be used in this type of way as a song beat.
Thank you for this. I'm starting to put my music out there and need to learn as much as I can about BMI. Would love to see you do this with copyright.
Sure thing! I'll cover copyright in a new video soon!
What if somebody stole my song how can I reclaim it
@@IndieMusicAcademy Question: What if you want to keep your government name out of public records and only let your artist name show up? what should I do?
Appreciate the video, however, seems misleading to use ASCAP in title when you only reference BMI's process. ASCAP has you register as a publisher separately and you can do that as an individual/sole proprietor - you don't have to be incorporated - but then you can get both writer and publisher royalties. Not sure of their registration process which is why I clicked. The whole CD baby pro publishing (replaced by CDB Boost in August 2023, with legacy releases still supported) is confusing with the PROs though. Especially as CD Baby is technically a 'distributor' that only 'administrates' your publisher pay-outs (for a fee of course). The language they use makes them sound like they are taking the role of your publisher. Add the issues of Songtrust and the MLC on top of it and it is even more confusing. I'd like more clarity on those. The new CDB Boost is supposed to finally include Songtrust and MLC registrations also, but if not using such a service (for an extra fee of course) my understanding is that the artist would need to register themselves and their songs with a PRO and Songtrust and The MLC to be fully covered. It's such a mess.
Subscribed....Man! Straight to the point luv it! Question: What is the purpose of getting your own publishing with the PROs if you can just collect them by putting 200% in the writers column?
I would definitely like to know this too!
This has answered all of my questions and doubts about getting copyrights on my own work, well done sir!
This was seriously one of the most helpful videos Ive seen this year! Thank you!
Hey thanks for the vid. You answered my question well!
Eye opening! Could you please kindly make a video with guidance for us sampling artists who use excerpts from other songs to create "originals" or remixes?
the explanation for uploading a multiple track album or EP asnt elaborated enough in my opinion honestly because do e need to upload the tiltle of the project// i need a step by step alkthrough plesase
This is golden! Thank you for this.
You are so welcome!
@@IndieMusicAcademy hey how about actually doing a video for ASCAP? Not one mention about ASCAP what's up with that? 🤷♂️
I am a singer /songwriter and use my own instruments for my music....I feel SO LOST cause I am SO NEW to ALL this !! I'm not stalking you...just following your videos. Asking questions as I listen to each one to try n learn ! thank you
Amazing video!!!
As a lyric writer would you do a separate uploading from the singer for your royalties or would your name just be added as a songwriter through the singer on bmi and that’s how you’d retrieve royalties?
I nearly had a stroke at 00:08, I thought someone let off a round right in my house omg .. thanks for the refresher ;-)
Excellent information thanks! I have question that maybe you already answered it, but I am still confused. How does BMI know which songs belongs to the songwriter when being played on Spotify? I registered a song on BMI and then the artist that recorded the song uploaded it to Spotify, but I saw that he typed my name incorrectly on Song credits. Would that affect me getting the royalties?
As long as you've submitted your registration correctly under your BMI account and it's linked to the correct artist, you're good. They don't use Spotify writer info to confirm shares. 👍 I believe the artist can still correct your name spelling through their Spotify account, though.
Wows thanks for that on the publisher percentage I have a lot of music im uploading and did this so I don’t want to feel as if I’m missing something
I will Copyright ©️ my music before sending my future music 🎵🎶 to ASCAP. Great video
I’m working on an animation series and each episode has a few songs. This is helpful. You have a new subscriber
Great content! Make sure that you double check your aka's when you use the "copy/paste" feature when registering songs from an album so that you don't end up copying one aka meant for one song across all of them.
Best video explanation I’ve come across so far!
Regarding your comment about how to register a 15-song album, it's worth noting that the Copyright Office looks at things differently, and you should mention this. The Copyright Office has a form you will fill out for a group of works, but it is limited to only 10 works. So, if you want to register a 15-song album with the US Copyright Office; you have to fill out TWO forms and then pay TWO submission payments. It is for this reason that all of my albums now contain 10 songs or fewer. I don't have a big copyright budget to deal with this. It can quickly add up if I want to have albums with more than 10 songs.
Also, you mention only how BMI does things. I'm a member of ASCAP. It would have been nice to see from you how ASCAP handles things.
Great insights! I would love to know your ASCAP specific questions. Drop them below and I'll clarify what I can!
This has now been changed to 20 songs for music and lyric group submissions 🤟
It's also worth noting (for anyone reading this) that you will not sign up for both ASCAP and BMI - you have to choose one PRO and stick with them!
Hi, just a quick question...when you registered your 10 song album was this done online? I wanted to register 10 songs the composition and sound recording. I'm not sure if the system would allow me to continue if I typed in the Album title as the title plus the songs would be 11 line items and the US Copyright has a walkthrough video that shows it would generate an error for more than 10 line items. Just wondering if you were familiar with this or ran into an issue when registering. Thank you!
@@tashirose1244 the max is 20 now. You can just put each song in individually up to 20
Great tip about completing an album's worth of tracks. I would have been very confused right at the point you said I would! Thanks.
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Hello! Thank you for taking time to answer questions! I collaborated with another Artist on a song featured on his album. It is about to be released. He bought the beat from someone. I don't have the beat maker's info. I am with ASCAP, and also own my publishing. 1. When registering my work, do I give myself 50% and the other writer 50%, then under publishing, give myself 100%? 2. Do I have to list the beatmaker since I don't have his info?
Very informative -- thank you. Every time I think I know this subject, I find there's more to learn.
I do have two questions:
When you register with the Copyright Office, do you need to provide both sound recording AND sheet music? Or will either one suffice as protection for the other?
When you use the option of registering 20 songs at a time, does it matter how those songs are then marketed? For example, 20 songs that appear for sale on two different CDs (or digital albums)
Ok, so I composed and recorded an original song. I registered it on BMI. I distributed the audio recording using CD Baby. Am I fully copyright protected now, or do I still need to register it with the US copyright office? Do I also need to register it with a Publishing Administrator? Thanks in advance for your advice!
You still should register with Copyright office to protect your work & go to court if someone infringes. From my understanding you only need a publishing administrator if you are looking for help getting sync licence placements
Can i register songs that haven't been mixed and mastered on BMI, i have 4 tracks ep ready but i want to protect work in every possible way i can be for sending out for proper mixing and mastering, am also open to other ways i can protect my work. thank you for the good work you do, YOUR THE BEST
Ryan, you do a great job. Something I missed, when I pulled up SOUND TRUST, I got SONG TRUST. Does Sound Trust own Song Trust? One of these paid a better royalty to singers, if I understood that right. Thank you for your time.
Thanks for your info. I have been using CDbaby Pro and they register with BMI for me. Now I am leaving CDbaby to another distributor who does not take care of BMI for me. Do I need to re-register all my previous work or make any changes with BMI?
A very useful video! Is a songwriter able to sign up with BMI as an LLC?
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Hello, great video! I just have a quick question regarding the collection of publishing royalties.
You mention that by writing 200% on BMI, this would eliminate the need for Songtrust? I'd be very happy if that's the case!
Good job on vid too covered a lot some I did for years some I don’t do samples medley’s part smh but not sampled in lyrics smh so much is overwhelming
Thanks for the video. Does this apply if you are affiliated with ASCAP only? You only referred to BMI on the video.
Nice, but sounds like a commercial for BMI lol. Still, thank you for all the info! very helpful in making the decisions on who to use in a start-up music career.
Thanks for the info but I’m a little frustrated with BMI because I registered my album Run to the mountain and for some reason there’s not records of it in BMI. I thought I did everything right. I could appreciate some help on this. Thanks.
So interesting and so educational! I would be very grateful if you’d talk about everything that’s connected to the tour part, who gets what and etc, thank you in advance!
That's a great idea! Can you clarify your question a bit more? Are you talking about royalties that are generated by going on tour?
@@IndieMusicAcademy Yes, exactly! 😀 and just in general everything we need to know while planning the tour 😎
Excellent video! You answered my question on registering my songs on BMI. Thanks.
If one of the writers is on ASCAP, how do you input their info in BMI? And vice versa how do you register a work with ASCAP when one of the writers is BMI? It gets confusing because the ASCAP person will have a publishing account and the BMI person usually won't.
Really interesting videos!!! Thanks! What do you suggest to take care or pay attention for sync music composer (instrumental orchestral)... my goal is to register to ASCAP? Any advice about it? Awal+soundexchange+ASCAP sounds good? enough? :-)
This is so helpful, thank you!
Really great! Quick question based on "How to register an album". If I released 1 song from the album a couple weeks before releasing the album such that there is a "single" version of the song and an "album" version of the song, do I create two submissions for that or rather create one submission and in the "Recordings" part add one recording as type "Single" and a 2nd recording as type "album"
Thank you for this! I still have a question after watching this video & your video about registering as a publisher - if I am a BMI writer & I have my own publishing imprint via BMI - I'm confused about setting the right % if there are multiple composers involved. If I want the writer's splits to match the publishing royalties, does this mean my publishing company still collects 100% or I also split up that 100% to match the Writer's splits? This is hard to describe! Not sure if it's making sense...
Great video. In your opinion is one company better than the other? Thank you.
Great video and recommendations! Quick question... if I am registering some songs on BMI with a co-writer (we are dividing our songs equally for music & lyrics), should I put 100% for myself and 100% for my co-writer? Also we do not have a publisher, so this obviously still adds up to the 200%. I just want to make sure I am doing this correctly? Again, much appreciation for your insights and all the great videos!
Only thing I don’t agree with is not registering beats just because they are without lyrics. Instrumental music is a genre. I’ve gotten some pretty decent royalty payouts just from folks listening to my instrumentals.
yes, if you are going to upload your beats to distrokid/tunecore/cdbaby/united masters then yes you should register your instrumentals on BMI/ASCAP
Great insights for beginners to the industry. Thanks.
Really helpful, thank you. As both BMI and ASCAP are US based, in the event that our song ends up in a foreign film track (let’s say) will we still receive a royalty ?
Everything was bout BMI you said noting about ASCAP?
Good point. There may be differences. For example I think ASCAP calls the Writer half 50% and the Publisher half 50%, unlike BMI 100% and 100%.
well there you go
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You bet!
I love your content! Thank you for all your help :)
Wow this is amazing content, thank you Ryan! How can I ask you a question? Should I use a specific form or email?
Great video! but I'm still confused about two things:
1) does registration through a PLO IPI equal copyrighting a song?
2) how long does a snippet that i used of another copyrighted song have to be so that it can be called sampling that record? and what if i use a small snippet that i loop over and over again just a background texture? etc. things like that.
I know it's a whole seperate subjects, but could you summarize the main things about this in a few sentences?
Thanks :)
It's a shame no one responded. I'm very curious about this as well.
Publishing ownership does not determine Copyright Ownership, unfortunately
US LOC or contact ASCAP or BMI for details
Thank you, this helped so much!❤
Thank you very much for such an insightful video Ryan, this is very helpful and explains many steps in the registration process! I am just curious, if my work contains sounds or a loop from the samples which were provided with the DAW when I purchased it (Ableton), does this mean my song technically contains samples?
Good question! It does NOT contain samples because those loops are royalty free.
@@IndieMusicAcademy Great, thank you very much for clarifying 😊!
Is it still the same if you use a sample from 'Cymatics'? They say that they are royality free
Definitely answered 2 of my Questions! all the rest I knew! THANKS!!!!! I'm Now Subscribed!!!
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Hey... can you make a video about all these organizations pay schedule. When and how often does BMI, Ascap, Songtrust, distrokid and Soundexchange pay royalties to their members?
If I've taken care all my business and I'm posting my music on the streaming platforms for the first time... who will I get royalties payments from first and how long would that take?
Quarterly
@@Nonamejj256 All those organizations pay quarterly?
so with regard to samples, if I'm using a program to do my drum track such as Ez drummer on an album do I need to put in the BMI registration that I'm using samples
Great video. Myself and co-writer wrote a song, he recorded a demo that we can shop around to publishers and artists. . I can go ahead and register our song now with BMI, right? I leave the “publisher” section blank, and we can add a publisher and/or artist later on down the road if the song gets up by a publisher or recorded by an artist, right? Thanks very much. Great and super helpful video!
I really need to knw how to go about giving agreement on songs I produced as a music producer from what stage to what do I do a split and get royalties
Helpful, thanks. Nice studio.
Great video ! Thank you for clarifying so many things in this video. I have a question . I used CD Baby distribute and release my song . When i register my song at BMY do I put CD baby as Publisher? ...
Great video. What do you recommend for a composer who wants to make music to sell on his own website, and sell usage licenses? I should register the music in BMI (or equivalent), or I should not register it, since I am interested in whether it is ROYALTY FREE. On the other hand, should I register all of them in BMI and better license them to buyers so they can then monetize through a Content ID dispute on TH-cam? Sorry if it sounds confusing, I just don't know how to explain it.
I have a question, let’s say I don’t own the beat , but I own the lyrics and performed the vocals . What would that be considered as (cover, original, etc…)
And do I get any type of royalties from my lyrics even tho I don’t own the beat that it was performed on ?
Excellent video😎 how can I register my songs if I already have them in my TH-cam channel with out register the songs? Is that possible?
does it matter if I put my artist name or should I put my government as the writer?
I was waiting to hear about ASCAP...but only heard about BMI...what are the difference between the 2 ? thank you
Great info. Well explained. Thanks!!!!
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Thanks for the video, what if I don't have the other persons ipinumber to complete registration on a song I wrote but that was released by another?
Thanks.
Thanks for this. If the artist name I use is different than my legal name, which do I use when I sign up with BMI?
Great info! I have my original song on cdbaby and re-record it with added harmonies and some other instrument parts kept the same title and lyrics. I want to remove the old version song from all streaming and download platforms and replace it with the new version. Does the new re-recorded version song need a new ISRC or can I use the ISRC from the original old version song? Thanks
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if you don't have any music distributor code about your music distributor on BMI I’ll be mine do you still get paid number music song can you get paid for music with a different way or do you gotta go to a music distributor to get all your money?
Thanks for all your great work out here. My question: does registering with the MLC negate the need for third party SongTrust?
Aaarrrrggghhh! I just went through a 7-day sync ready challenge with Michael Elsner. Michael said to sign up as a songwriter AND as a publisher on BMI in order to get 200% of your royalties. So, I established Songwriter Stephanie Phillips Music as my publishing entity. Is that wrong?? Will I regret that?
Huge info thank you
On number 2. Samples. I use Splice. Do I have to choose that I have used samples? As a subscriber to splice I don't have to pay royalties.Thanking you in anticipation.
Since you can receive Both the writer and publishing rights from BMI, do you need to register with a publishing Admin like songtrust or tunecore ????
Appreciate this video...very informative. You mentioned that Beats makers don't have to register until there are lyrics...what if I'm releasing a Instrumental album? Is that not considered complete because there are no lyrics?
Great question! Yes! since these beats are being released to the public in their final form you definitely CAN register on BMI.
Interesting points. Thank you.
If I already have a BMI account as both a writer and publisher believe the most direct way to move forward as an independent artist is to simply distribute via CDBaby, Ditto, etc. then handle all of the rest within BMI (song registration) and avoid using the aforementioned for any publishing management. Also no need for Songtrust. Make sense?
Very clear. Thanks.
Thanks for your info.. I have a question regarding if I'm the lyrics writer but not the composer but I'm the singer what options should I use? Thanks
If I'm the author a song, lyrics and arrangement, do I need to register it under SR and PA application? Thanks, great information
Thanks for the advice and I commend you
can you do a video about sync licensing, I would like to pitch in my beats for companies to use my beat but I know you need to have P.O.R which I have BMI but still not sure how this work, and would like to get a better understanding by registering them or do I not?
Very helpful... Thank You!
Excellent. But this does not cover ASCAP as implied in the title. I recogize that the IMA is obviously registered with BMI rather than ASCAP. But having it in the tiel, I would expect to at least mention rather ASCAP has the same work around to make sure you get both the writer and publisher share withouth creating a separate account.
Indie, do you have an opinion on change of BMI to become a for-profit PRO after decades of being non-profit? Is it still safe to use BMI after they're sold to a private equity firm? And finally, is it easy to switch songs over to ASCAP for royalties once BMI gets looted by investors and saddled with debt? Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate your videos. (Long time subscriber here.)
Great info....Thank You!
I purchased the license to remake a song. How are the percentages calculated? How much should the publisher and the original artist receive?
I've done songwriting before but have never released material or music before. I live in the UK. What website/software would you recommend for copyrighting? Also, how much time do i need to leave between copyrighting my song and releasing my song?
thank you
Thanks for this. Very helpful. Two questions, please. First, I'm helping an artist register some of his back catalog, but some are from quite a long time ago and he knows only the release year and not the month and day. Can we just give an approximate month and day?
Second, in the Artists and Recording section, when the form asks for "are then any artists?", would this be any one performing on the record, or is it only other artists who might share rights?
I don't understand, I've registered all my songs on ASCAP, and have received basically no money (less than 5 dollars), yet I have gotten over 1.5 million streams on Spotify alone over the last 3 years. I've reached out to ASCAP, and they've just given me generic responses about how they only pay out quarterly, but I'm getting roughly 25k streams on one song alone, quarterly.
Can you register a not fully mastered song or does it have to be the final mastered version ?
Thanks for the video. Just had a question, should your BMI account be your legal name or aritst name? I made it my legal name but when I search my artist name on songview theres no IPI# any thoughts?
Hello, thanks for the videos, they help a lot. Question: if I distribute an artist’s song after he has released the video on TH-cam, will the distribution platform or BMI take down the song?
: Do you recommend one rpm for distribution and how do I link it with BMI? Thanks