CISAC
The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers — the international umbrella body for CMOs worldwide. CISAC sets standards for work registration (including CWR), administers CIS-Net, and promotes best practices in copyright management.
Artigos sobre CISAC
Collection Societies Explained: How They Work and Why Every Artist Needs One
For creators, collection societies music and performing rights organizations are the plumbing that converts plays, broadcasts and streams into actual payments. This guide maps which rights each society collects, the exact registrations and identifiers you must fix to stop royalty leakage, and practical next steps - including when to run an audit or bring in a recovery service - so you get paid what you earned.
The A-Z Music Publishing Glossary: Every Term You Need to Know
This A-Z music publishing glossary gives clear definitions for every term you will run into - from ISWC to sync licensing - with real-world examples and practical next steps. Whether you are an independent songwriter setting up splits or an indie label resolving international collections, use these standardized entries to register rights, fix metadata, and stop leaving money on the table.
How to Register Your Lyrics and Protect Your Songwriting Rights
Introduction As an indie musician, your lyrics are your heart and soul poured into words—vulnerable, raw, and uniquely yours. However, the digital landscape is more akin to a bustling metropolis than a quiet retreat, with songs flying around like carrier pigeons on caffeine.
Understanding Performing Rights Organizations: How PROs Protect and Monetize Your Music
If you write, publish, or build systems around music, understanding PRO music rights is where unpaid royalties either get caught or slip away. This article breaks down how performing rights organizations operate, covering licensing models, reporting and metadata requirements, reciprocal cross-border flows, and a numeric distribution example that traces money from licensee to writer.
Copyright Chain of Title in Music: How to Establish and Verify Ownership
Proving who actually owns a song or master is rarely straightforward; missing split sheets, conflicting society entries, and legacy transfers create real operational risk. This guide lays out a step-by-step approach to build and verify a reliable copyright chain of title for both compositions and sound recordings, listing the exact documents, registry checks, APIs, and red flags you should use.
Controversial Take: Are Music Publishing Companies Taking Too Much From Artists?
Ah, the music industry! It's a world filled with glitz, glam, and the occasional off-key note about music rights collection .
Understanding Performing Rights Organizations: How PROs Protect and Monetize Your Music
PRO music licensing is the mechanism that turns public performances into payable composition royalties, but the work of converting plays into cash depends on precise registrations, reciprocal agreements, and messy data flows. Here we map how ASCAP , BMI , PRS and other societies detect use, match metadata, and route payments across borders so you can design systems or resolve allocation errors.
Music Metadata Standards: Essential Information for Rights Management and Royalty Payments
Missing or incorrect metadata is the single biggest operational cause of unpaid royalties, and music metadata standards are the practical rules that prevent those losses by defining identifiers, fields, and delivery flows. This article unpacks the identifiers and formats you actually need to manage rights and payments — ISRC, ISWC, GRid, IPI, UPC, DDEX ERN and RIN, in-file tags and society feeds — and shows how to validate, map, and remediate metadata in real ingestion and reconciliation pipelines.
Designing a Music Rights Data Model: Identifiers, Entities, and Relationship Patterns for Developers
A robust music rights data model is the foundation for accurate publishing, licensing, and royalty workflows in any production system. This guide gives developers, data architects, and music professionals a standards-aligned, production-ready blueprint for identifiers, canonical entities, relationship patterns, and practical techniques for reconciliation, provenance, and time-bounded rights.