Synchronization rights

- Alright, let's talk about another big source of publishing income. It's called synchronization rights. If a film, or TV studio, or production company, or anyone else, wants to use your composition in a TV show, whether it's a movie or a commercial, they need to pay for this synchronization license. Those synchronization license royalties are derived from the distribution part of your copyright. The license fee, both here in the United States and outside, is typically a one-to-one negotiation, usually based on a number of things like the length of the use, how it's being used, is it a background, is it at the front end of a movie, the format, and the popularity of the production. The size of the company may matter as well. Because of all of these different factors, the fees can range from a few hundred bucks to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let's stay on the topic of synchs for a minute, as there's also a mechanical royalty generated from the quote-unquote reproduction copyright…