From the course: Learning Music Licensing
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How income is generated in music licensing
From the course: Learning Music Licensing
How income is generated in music licensing
- [Instructor] How you get compensated for your music depends on the type of license. The two most common ways are an upfront licensing fee and backend royalties. You might license a song or a cue to a production company for a TV show. In this case, you would be paid a licensing fee, a fee paid by the licensee for the master use right and the sync right to your song. For example, a TV network, perhaps NBC or Fox, or a production company may pay out $2,000 for the sync fee and $2,000 for the master fee on a song of yours they include in a TV show. The fees can, of course, vary greatly, depending on a number of things, including how big the song is, how big the network is, and most importantly, how big the budget is for the show. Backend royalties. This is money paid through your performing rights organization: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, PRS, for public performances of your song. As it relates to a sync license, every time the audiovisual program featuring the licensed song plays in public: on…
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