TWO MORE KINDS OF ROYALTIES

Cities like Nashville and Los Angeles are beaming with songwriters who spend hours if not days writing, forming, and creating a song. If you are going to write them, why not get paid for your efforts. Songwriters are paid through a medium called royalties. I already mentioned 2 kinds of royalties...Mechanical and Performance.

The other 2 kinds of royalties are:

1. Synchronization rights and royalties - A synchronization license is needed for a song to be reproduced onto a television program, film, video, commercial, radio, or even an 800 number phone message. It is called this because you are "synchronizing" the composition, as it is performed on the audio recording, to a film, TV commercial, or spoken voice-over. If a specific recorded version of a composition is used, you must also get permission from the record company in the form of a "master use" license. The synchronization royalty is paid to songwriters and publishers for use of a song used as background music for a movie, TV show, or commercial.

2. Print rights and royalties - This is a royalty paid to songwriters and publishers based on sales of printed sheet music.

The Muzik Maker