Funding and royalties

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Bron 1: Excerpts from "263656152-The-Unsigned-Guide-s-Essential-Guide-to-Music-Music Royalties: A Comprehensive Guide

Introduction:

This section introduces the guide and its purpose: to inform musicians about funding opportunities within the UK music industry.

Musicians Benevolent Fund - Getting You Started & Keeping You Going:

This section details the support provided by the Musicians Benevolent Fund for professional musicians, including the "Emerging Excellence Award" for artists between 18 and 30.

All about Grants for the Arts:

This section describes "Grants for the Arts" by Arts Council England, available to individual musicians, music bands, and other organizations using music in their work.

Momentum Music Fund, British Music Abroad & other opportunities provided by PRS For Music Foundation:

This section explains various funding options from the PRS For Music Foundation, including the Momentum Music Fund for emerging artists, Women Make Music to support female musicians, and Open Funding for both organizations and individuals.

What the Music Export Growth Scheme can offer you:

This section covers the Music Export Growth Scheme, an initiative by UKTI and BPI that provides financial support to British music businesses looking to promote their music internationally.

Easy Money? The Definitive UK Guide To Funding Music Projects:

This section discusses the guide "Easy Money?" by Remi Harris, which identifies six key funding sources for music projects: grants, family and friends, crowdfunding, sponsorship, debt, and investment.

Finance & business support for your music venture:

This section highlights the Creative Industry Finance (CIF) program, which provides business support and loans to music companies.

Got a bright idea for a business? Talk To Transmit:

This section introduces Transmit Start-Up Loans, offering loans up to £10,000 to start-up creative businesses, including music companies.

Gathering A Crowd: Running A Music Crowdfunding Campaign:

Written by Remi Harris, this section covers the basics of crowdfunding for music projects.

How To Fit A Project Into Your Career:

Written by Rich Lyne from PledgeMusic, this section discusses how PledgeMusic campaigns can be integrated into an artist's career, with or without a record label.

Want To know More about What We Do at The Unsigned Guide?

This section describes the services of The Unsigned Guide, an online platform with a database of music industry contacts and other resources for musicians.

Music Royalties Guide

Source 2: Excerpts from "Get All Your Songwriting Royalties":
This source provides an overview of the various types of royalties songwriters can earn, including mechanical royalties, composition performance royalties, and synchronization licenses.

Source 3: Excerpts from "Music Royalty Collection Guide":

• One Song, Two Elements: Explains that a song consists of two separately copyrighted elements: the sound recording (master) and the composition (songwriting).


• Music Copyright and Music Publishing: Describes how copyright in music works and the role of music publishers in managing and collecting royalties.


• The Different Types of Music Royalties: Outlines the different types of music royalties: mechanical, performance, synchronization, and print royalties.


• Mechanical Royalties: Delves into mechanical royalties generated through physical or digital reproduction and distribution of songs.


• Performance Royalties: Describes performance royalties generated when a song is publicly performed, for example, on radio, TV, or live events.


• Synchronization Royalties: Discusses synchronization royalties paid when a song is used in audiovisual media such as films, TV shows, and advertisements.


• Print Royalties: Covers print royalties paid when the sheet music of a song is printed and sold.


• Collecting Your Royalties: Provides a list of organizations that can help songwriters collect royalties, including mechanical royalty collectors, digital distributors, physical distributors, performance rights organizations (PROs), and mechanical licensing agents.


• Music Royalties Generated From Usage of the Sound Recording: Explains royalties generated from the use of the sound recording, which differ from royalties paid for using the composition.

Source 4: Excerpts from "US Streaming Royalties Explained":
This source provides a detailed explanation of the calculation of mechanical royalties for interactive streaming services in the US, including specifics about the "All-In Royalty Pool" and other factors affecting payouts.

Source 5: Excerpts from "Spotify Royalties Calculation":

• Introduction: Introduces the guide and its purpose: to explain how Spotify calculates royalties.


• The Two Separate Licenses and the Two Separate Royalties Generated for Each Stream on Spotify: Explains that Spotify requires two separate licenses to stream music: one for the sound recording and one for the composition. Each license generates a separate royalty.


• How the Two Royalties are Calculated by Spotify: Sound Recordings and Compositions/Songs: Details the formulas Spotify uses to calculate royalties for sound recordings and compositions.


• An Actual Spotify Statement: Analyzes a real Spotify statement for the Premium service in November 2019, explaining each line item.


• Promotional and Free Trial Uses of the Spotify Service: Explains that no royalties are generated for streams that occur during Spotify's promotional campaigns or free trials.


• Conclusion: Emphasizes the complexity of royalty calculations in the streaming music industry and the challenges musicians face in collecting their rightful royalties.


• About the Author: Provides information about Jeff Price, the guide's author and founder of several companies in the music industry, including TuneCore, Audiam, and Word Collections.

Source 6: Excerpts from "Royalty Payment - Wikipedia":
This Wikipedia article provides a broad overview of royalty payments, covering various types of royalties, including royalties for non-renewable resources, patents, trademarks, copyrights, music, art, and software. The article also discusses different approaches to determining royalty rates, including the cost approach, comparable market approach, and income approach.