... community. (Rock, Hip Hop, R&B, Dance, Jazz etc.) Finding your niche, and taking it to the next level is essential to growing into a successful artist. Protecting the music that you produce also falls under artist development. You must register your music with copyright offices. Artists should affiliate with ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC to copyright and protect their intellectual property. This is necessary to receive payment when your music is played by a broadcasting company, radio, or TV show. As the digital music industry progresses it would be in the artist's best interest to register with performance rights organizations ...
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Today I want to cover a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately. As I see it, there are primarily two ways music is being licensed into projects currently. The two ways can be defined as passive and active. Here's what I mean: There are a lot of music libraries these days that have built up massive collections of music that is accessible online for anyone who needs music for their projects. I'm thinking of sites like Pump Audio and other lesser known sites that function similarly. The way these sites work is that music supervisors who need specific types of songs will log on and search their catalog based on keywords related to the type of track they're interested in licensing. So if ...
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... before submitting your set lists for that gig. Another consideration is which PRO you belong to and what their live performance payment policies are. You may find a better deal with another PRO if you are not yet registered with any particular PRO. In the US, the other possibilities are ASCAP and SESAC. OK, songwriters, the additional income stream for live performances has just widened. Find out all you can about this, register your new and old songs that are likely to end up on your live performance set lists and then keep track of those set lists so you may ...
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