Performance Rights Organizations

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ANTONIO NEAL: Hey, this is Antonio Neal with Artistic Soul Entertainment on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about copyrighting a song and also publishing the song. All right, let's talk about when you should send your songs to a performance right organization. Really, you should send your song to the organization as soon as you can. I remember when I first started, oh, man, 7, 8, 9, 10 years ago, I probably was sending them a form every other week. I wanted to make sure that my songs were actually there and for the money to be accounted for because think about it; if you have a song that you never registered with your performance rights society and that song gets on the record and goes out and you look up one day and that thing is selling a hundred thousand copies. And you remember one day, "Oh, my gosh!" You look on the album cover, you look inside of the credits and you realize that you did not have your information in there, probably meaning you did not even register it. So, you need to get that done so that the performance societies can have a place to collect your money for you because, guess what, if the song isn't registered, they can't collect the money on your behalf. And that to me, that would be a hard one day to know that my song got a hundred thousand spins this year, and that's five or ten thousand dollars I could have had in my pocket, but I forgot to register the song. So, just make you make a checklist whenever you're doing a songwriting time with people, whenever you have a writing session. Just make sure when you finish writing that song that you immediately go to your papers for BMI, ASCAP or SESAC or you go online immediately, and you fill in the song, the titles and the splits of everything of what you guys created. And if you do it the same day that you write the song, you won't have to worry about having a lapse or forgetting to do it. Go ahead and do it the day that your song was created, and you won't ever have to lose any sleep over reasons why you did not get that song registered.

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