COLLECT YOUR ROYALTIES AS AN ARTIST, COPYRIGHT OWNER OR/AND SERVICE PROVIDER

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Royalties are split equally between recording artists and rights owners. Learn about the exclusive benefits of our FREE SoundExchange membership. Explore our database of unregistered artists and rights owners with royalties waiting. Registration is FREE and easy!

Artists & copyright owners

SoundExchange represents recording artists and small, medium and large record companies. We collect and distribute royalties for multiplatinum stars and local garage bands, for a cappella and acid rock, bluegrass, symphonies, big bands and everything in between. We maintain more than 130,000 recording artists and rights owner accounts.The term “featured artist” refers to the group or individual most prominently featured on a sound recording, track or album. “Featured artists” receive direct payments from SoundExchange.

A “non-featured artist” is an artist who is not prominently featured on a sound recording, track or album (i.e. a session musician or a back-up vocalist). Royalties for “non-featured artists” are covered by organizations such as the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and SAG-AFTRA.A rights owner owns the “master” to recorded artistic content and can be a record label or an artist who owns their own masters.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

On December 24, 2015, the Copyright Royalty Board revised their determination for the 2016-2020 webcasting rates and terms (“Web IV”) by removing a number of the categories.

All services are being asked to choose between three groups of services: 1).Commercial Webcasters (including AM and/or FM simulcasters)Webcasters which are neither tax-exempt under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code (e.g. churches, schools, etc.) nor owned by a govern-mental entity are “commercial” webcasters. CLICK HERE

2).Noncommercial Webcasters (including AM and/or FM simulcasters)Streaming services owned by a governmental entity for public purposes or owned by a tax-exempt service under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code (e.g., churches, schools, etc.). CLICK HERE

3).Other ServicesSatellite radio, services offering audio-only music channels via cable television or satellite television, and services streaming into business establishments (e.g., restaurants, retail stores, etc.). CLICK HERE

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