Music Publishing and Music Licensing Article

<!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –>How can I get paid when I license my music? For television or film there will be two ways you can make money. Whatever money is in the budget for the license of the song/track in the film that you can negotiate (if you can negotiate) and then the performance royalty which will eventually be distributed to you from any of the PRO’s you are registered with such as ASCAP, BMI and SESAC if you are in the USA.

Usually for a production there are set budgets for each track depending on the type of usage which can be anything from background usage that you would hear in a restaurant or montage where they are featuring your song. So this depends on the production. If you can negotiate that’s awesome but usually these days for indie artists there’s no real room for negotiating and most of the time you have to take what they are offering and if you turn it down your clients can go elsewhere. That’s the truth. So do it, get the license and we’ll hope to make a bigger buck from the performance royalties later on down the line which can add up a lot.

Depending on how many folks watch the movie or TV show and how popular it is that determines how much performance royalties you can generate from your music being used on the TV show or film. You can make anywhere from 900 dollars to a little over 2K from each broadcast of the TV show that had your music on it per song if there were several of your songs in the show. Then when the show is re-run when let’s say it’s on break and they are rerunning the show then you stand to make the same amount of money from it again from performance royalties. Then if this show is gone into syndication and it’s running all over the place then you stand to make some mega bucks! If it’s running on cable then you stand to make lesser amount of money from each broadcast but it could be running numerous times so you stand to make more money.

If you license your music into a theatrical film then there aren’t any performance royalties distributed for the theatrical run but once it’s running on television then you stand to make more cash from your music in the film that is broadcast on television.

So it’s important to try and get your music into TV shows and films so that you can license your music and then earn backend money and have checks come in while you concentrate on making more music. Check out our awesome program that connects you with industry folks which can help you place your music in TV and Films. Start earning good money licensing your music into TV shows and Films. It’s time!

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