Get Paid when you get played

Get paid when you get played

If you are a featured recording artist or a sound recording copyright owner (SRCO), producer or creative contributor, you may have earned digital performance royalties for the use of sound recordings you own or on which you performed. Artists and SRCOs should register with SoundExchange as soon as possible, even if you’re a member of another performance rights organization, as only SoundExchange can provide digital royalties. Registration is fast and always free. Copyright holders and featured artists (generally, the most visible person, in print or image, on the physical package of a recording) are paid through SoundExchange. Session players and back-up musicians are paid from a separate royalty fund. No matter what part you played, click your category below to find out how to get paid.

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  The Digital Performance Royalties Fund (DPR) was established to collect and distribute monies to non-featured musicians and non-featured vocalists pursuant to the DPRA (Digital Performance Rights Amendment) and DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). These acts require the allocation of 5% of compulsory license fees to non-featured performers, 2 1/2 % to non-featured musicians, and 2 1/2% to non-featured vocalists collected from various digital distributions of sound recordings. The first payments to the DPR were for the non-featured performers a share of the compulsory license fees collected from February, 1996 through March, 2000 from the cable and satellite subscription services. In addition to the ongoing payments from these sources, future revenue from the statutory rates collected for web-casting will be added to these payments.




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