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Taylor Swift: "Get a good lawyer"
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Protect your music today
Taylor Swift’s experience highlights the critical need for legal protection in the music industry. Her advice to musicians: "Get a good lawyer." Ensure you maintain control over your music and prevent unauthorized use. Secure your creative work and safeguard your future in the music industry now.
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Over 80+ agreements at your fingertips
Unleash legal document magic with our editable agreements. Whether it’s collaboration, royalty splits, or work-for-hire, our agreements are the first step in establishing your musical rights and setting clear expectations. Distilled by AI, they make complex legal language easy to understand, ensuring you start on solid ground.
HOW IT WORKS
Two easy steps to protect your music!
COPYRIGHT YOUR SONG
File with certainty
Think copyrights don’t matter? Think again. Copyrights are your legal shield, giving you control over your music, how it’s used, and ensuring you get paid. As the industry evolves, PROs, the MLC, and Distributors are improving copyright data tracking to ensure musicians are accurately compensated.
THE PLATFORM
Two easy steps to protect your music!
Step 1:
finalize agreement
Step 2:
finalize copyright
Connecting The Dots
See how agreements and copyrights map to royalties - this is how you get paid!
SMVRT agreements legally define royalty splits, ownership rights, and payout terms, ensuring clear, enforceable collaborations.
SMVRT agreement
SMVRT agreements are crucial for musicians as they establish clear ownership and terms before collaboration, defining work-for-hire or royalty split arrangements. These templated, editable agreements prevent disputes by outlining rights, responsibilities, and profit division. When combined with copyright services, SMVRT agreements ensure that musicians not only protect their music legally but also set clear expectations, leading to stronger, more transparent collaborations.
Copyright type
Copyright data is mapped to royalties by associating compositions (WOPA) and recordings (SR) with their respective revenue streams.
Musical works
Sound recordings
Work of performing arts
A Work of Performing Arts (WOPA) copyright for a song protects the underlying composition, including the melody, lyrics, and musical arrangement. It covers the creative aspects of the song, giving the songwriter and composer exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, and create derivative works based on the composition. This type of copyright is separate from the Sound Recording copyright, which protects the actual recording of the performance.
Sound recordings
A Sound Recording (SR) copyright protects the specific recording of a song, including the actual performance by artists, musicians, and producers captured in that recording. It grants the rights holder exclusive control over the reproduction, distribution, and digital transmission of the recorded performance. This copyright is distinct from the Work of Performing Arts copyright, which protects the underlying musical composition itself.
Copyright mapping directs royalties to rightful owners by linking compositions and recordings to their respective revenue streams and recipients.
Royalty Tracking Groups
Public Performance
Platforms: Live performances, Radio, Streaming platforms
Royalties: Performance Royalties
Collection: PROs (e.g., ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR)
Mechanical Reproduction
Platforms: CDs, Downloads, Streaming platforms
Royalties: Mechanical Royalties
Collection: The MLC
Sync Licensing
Platforms: Movies, TV Shows, Ads
Royalties: Sync Royalties
Collection: Direct Agreements or Licensing Agencies
YouTube and Video Streaming
Platforms: YouTube, Video Streaming Services
Royalties: YouTube and Video Streaming Royalties
Collection: YouTube Content ID System, PROs
Public Performance (Digital)
Platforms: Streaming, Satellite Radio
Royalties: Performance Royalties (Digital)
Collection: SoundExchange
Digital Performance
Platforms: Non-interactive platforms like Pandora, Satellite Radio
Royalties: Digital Performance Royalties
Collection: SoundExchange
Master Reproduction
Platforms: Streaming, Sales of CDs, Licensing for Media
Royalties: Master Royalties, Mechanical Royalties from Streaming (SR)
Collection: Distributors
Sync Licensing (SR)
Platforms: Movies, TV Shows, Ads
Royalties: Sync Royalties (SR)
Collection: Direct Agreements or Licensing Agencies
YouTube and Video Streaming
Platforms: YouTube, Video Streaming Services
Royalties: YouTube and Video Streaming Royalties (SR)
Collection: YouTube Content ID System, Record Labels
It all comes full circle—ownership and copyright filings ensure your creative efforts get the recognition and royalties they deserve!
Map copyright details to prove ownership for appropriate payouts
Royalty payouts
Musician payouts
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