Royalties

Royalties:

Artists and composers are very important in the music idustry and they do a lot of creating and making music and get their music commercialised all over the tv, radio, adverts, movies etc. Whenever their music gets played they need to get payed because its their music and their right, whenever a composer or an artists music is being performed they get payed for it.
For the artist and composers to get payed for their work they need to apply for royalties so the collection agencies of the royalties can keep a contract that the artist or composer signed and have rights from the composer and artist. So once the artist or composer has joined the collection agnecies for the royalties they save records of the artist or composer's music and rights of what the composer has written and the artist has written and they track whenever their music is played and then the artist or composer gets payed.
The artist's recorded songs get played all over but there are different royalties for different rights meaning there is 3 types of collection agencies.

Collection agencies of royalties:

PRS - (performing right society)
MCPS - (mechanical copyright protection society)
PPL - (phonographic performance limited)

PRS - prs is when the writers and composers music gets performed, they get the money for it. The performer does not get money for performing the writers and composers music because the royalty collection angency is for composers and writers and their original recordings. For example either a composer, writer and artist write a original song from scratch and create everything in the song and they then go and record the song and then publish is, so once their song is published to be broadcasted the prs will record every single time that song has been played and they automatically get payed but if it is a band that created the song the prs has to split the money between the band and the most important role gets more then the other band members.
To join prs you have to pay 10 pounds to join for life, but this gets deducted from first payments. In april, july, october and december is when the payments are done.

MCPS - the royalties of mcps is collected from the sale of recordings and the owner of the copyright of the recording.
This means the record label that has signed with the artist, composer and writer own the recording and whenever the recording of the song has been sold the owner of the recording and the composer gets payed for it, so through mcps they collect every time the recording has been saled and the owner and composer gets payed. No one else can get payed only the owners and the composers because the mcps is made for them and works around them.
If a composer is unpublished they are still eligible for royalties of mcps.
The publishers would collect the money for the artist only if the artist uses a publisher. But if an artist comes and performs on the recording they dont have rights from mcps because they are just performing and they are not the owner of the copyright of the recording.

PPL - ppl royalties collects from a performance of a song, a broadcast of a song so the musicians performing on the recording get the royalties of ppl.
So only people that are performing on the recording have rights to get collections from ppl royalties.
So this means when someone performs in a song doesnt matter how long they get payed everytime they perform in the song and the song gets broadcasted. This applys to instrument players such as: piano, guitar, drums, bass etc. Singers or any sort of voices, rappers etc.
It does not cost to join mcps.


When a song is used on tv or film it earns either the composer, writer and artist money, so whenever the song is played on tv or film it gets the artist and composers and writers money.
Publishers of the artist or composers and writers give permission for the company using the specific song to use license for the song and gives you a synchronisation fee.
For example: a artist wrote an original song and recorded it, so the recording gets published around and a director has heard the recording and wants to use it for their film so the director has to get a lisence from the recording label that worked with the artist so they can use it on their film, because once the director has the lisence and pays the record label for the lisence the director can use te song for the film but only for the film, if the same director wanted to use it for another film they have to get another lisence for that film and be able to use it in the film.

The reason why royalties, copyrights and lisence are so important is because without the royalties there would be no organised method to pay the artists, composers and writers, and it would cause a mess in the industry with payments and there could be occasions where some artists, composers and writers dont even get payed for ther hard work and efforts. So it is good that there are 3 different types of royalties because it organises the paying methods and it makes the artists etc feel safe and secure and know that they would get payed for their rights. The way these 3 types of royalties get seperated for the rights of 1. Writers get payed for their original work being played 2. Owners and composers of record labels get payed for when the recordings get saled and 3. Performers on the recordings get payed for when the recording gets played. It all becomes simple but then there is lisences and copyrights with the recordings this is important to have in the music industry because lisences is for people to be able to use the songs and broadcast them and copyrights is for people to have rights to own the song by buying the song. Without lisences and copyrights the owners of the recordings meanig artists, writers and composers would not get payed properly maybe not at all because people would just be using the songs for free and the artists and owners would not get their money that they deserve. So this is why it is good that there are copyrights and lisences because it keeps the industry organised and people get payed for what they deserve and no problems occur.