Music and Video Publishing & Distribution

A publishing administrator is a music executive an expert who normally has many years of experience dabbling or working  with or alongside a artist, producer and label manager who is in the business of music  for example; a publisher or artist manager.  Their main job is to ensure that the business side of things are taken care of for the copyright owner or right-holder  of the composition and Sound recording.

Once a piece of music is created and documented it is automatically copyright [Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988].  One of the most common way to copyright your song is to write down the lyrics  and send a copy to yourself by special delivery then keep it a safe place unopened, the time stamp and date are important for future refence furthermore it will have your name attached to it. However there are several private organisation out there that may charge a small fee to help you copyright and protect your song like MCPS.  However, If you are in the  United Kingdom (UK) there’re no official  method to copyright your work. unlike in the USA. However, you can do a  few things to create evidence of creation and ownership for example mailing a  physical copy to yourself or by electronically storing  and savings the work  . 

 In the UK songwriters can get paid   Mechanical royalties due to him or her by being a member of a mechanical royalty collecting agency like MCPS with represents the creators and owner of musical compositions. however on the flip side a songwriter based in the US cannot simply collect mechanical royalties by simply being a member of PRO like ASCAP or BMI or SESAC for Canada. If you’re the songwriter or you controlled the  composition in a phono Record to collect mechanical royalties The Mechanical Licensing Collection MLC is an agency operates in the US you can check them out and join for fee however you could appoint our publishing admin team to take care of business on your behalf  pay no commission we charge a one off admin fee and you keep 100% of royalties earned.  Mechanical royalties are referred to as payments to mechanically reproduced sound. According to the copyright law  the owner of the composition in the record have the absolute monopoly which means a manufacture or distributor must obtained a mechanical license from owner or (publisher) to use your work this is called compulsory licenses. Under Compulsory license the user must pay a set fee the is called a statutory rate. whereby the songwriter must get paid for the composition embodied in the sound recording.  who require to have a a compulsory license before using your copyright work? All manufactures and distributors including digital radio webcasting over the internet, Cable television,  public broadcasting system like outdoor sound systems, streaming & downloading  platforms,  social media platforms etc.       

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Furcal R, Publishing is a sub entity of Furcal Records based in the UK established 2005  founded by D Davis aka Cally Furcal a recording artist  songwriter  music producer publisher and artist manager and law  student.   Furcal R. publishing  represents a collective body of works on the behalf of our customers,  we are  affiliated with BMI. ASCAP, PRS, MCPS PPL , Sound Exchange etc.

Recording artists, labels and producers are paid performance royalties when a song is streamed, download or bought physically. The main royalties are  Public performance, digital transmissions, Mechanical, print music and Sync royalties. A sound recoding rights holder can monetised these rights. Whenever a master or a copy of it is performed in public or digitally transmitted over the internet, Radio, cable TV or or Disco, the artist and record company (the label) get paid there share of the royalties earned. In the UK the artist, record company  or producer can register with a PRO directly who will issue licenses to users of the master, collect  performance royalties on the behalf of the coy right owner/rights-holder. recommended PRO the Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) Performing Artists Media Rights Association (PAMRA)  or  Association of United Recording Artists. AURA. However for the US territory  Sound Exchange (sound Ex ) etc. 

A publishing administrator  job is to administer and collect all of the metadata relates to a song or a recording then distribute such information to a Performance Right society (PRO) appointed. Only then the appointed agency will be authorised to issue licenses and  collect royalties earned from the usage of the  work. However, the work must be pre registered to them. please note that only work that is  register and reconciled   may be eligible for royalty  claim.   

a publishing administrator  job is to collect all metadata related to a recording and distribute it to a Performance Right society.  

Luminate is a company where independent artists and labels can register their released singles or albums. Luminate statistically measures how many records are sold downloaded or streamed at retail stories. The data that collected from retail outlets , Luminate used such data for billboard charts. This data is measured using the ISRC  UPC for each song registered and submitted to Luminate. Luminate is our  go to source for registering our artists songs given our artists  a chance to be listed on Billboard charts US and Canada. 

The publisher role and royalty split  

A publisher role is to take care of business  for the songwriter.  Finding users for his or her  song  issuing licenses and collect royalties  then pay it to the contributing writers or rights holder, however before this happen the writer must  assign the copyright in the work to the publisher  giving the publisher administration rights.  All income is traditionally split 50-50  with the exception of performance and sheet music , however a publishing administrator  royalty split traditionally  20-70.