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Best publishing rights admin to collect Performance Royalties?

Hi all! First post...

In my experience with ASCAP you need to track the ad, using Numerator (formerly Competitrack) and get an ad code for the spot or spots. Then fill out and submit an Ad Claim form to ASCAP for the ad in question. They will not pay out if you only register the tracks and do not submit the ad claim form.
Is numerator now Vivvix?

 
Hi, I have quite a lot of music placed in libraries, and for which I still own publisher rights.


Thanks!
Hi!

Did you find an answer to this (other than the nonsense by people who refuse to read/understand the question)? Did you get in contact with "steve"?

I'm in the exact same situation as you are, and I'm also looking for a worldwide publishing admin. I did have a US-only one before, but my music is used everywhere, so a better solution would be much preferred.
 
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Hi, I have quite a lot of music placed in libraries, and for which I still own publisher rights.

I know for a fact that I have lots of TV commercials out there using my music, and I was wondering which is the best publisher rights admin/sub publisher company out there to specifically collect TV Public Performance Royalties.

I'm not interested in collecting Spotify or other mechanical rights.
It would be great if they collect both European and International rights and are affiliated with all PROs worldwide.

I've seen many mention Tunecore, CDBaby etc....but I don't think they collect TV Public Performance royalties?

I visietd Sentric's website, but they have bad reviews both on some forums and Truspilot, which led me to think of them - perhaps? - as a too big company handling too many artists and not collecting efficiently?

Another alternative would be to just get a BMAT account to scan songs by myself, and then spend an incredible amount of time to contact all relevant PROs worldwide - but I want to keep spending my time composing music :)

Any suggestions or past experiences?

Thanks!
You should get a lawyer.
 
In the UK, we have the PRS (Performing Rights Society) which collects royalties from live performances, and their sister organisation, the MCPS which (IIRC) collects royalties from broadcasted music (including music placed in film/TV, although I'm unsure about their role with music libraries). You can register as a Writer or Publisher with PRS, although I don't know anything much about MCPS as I am currently still looking into whether I need to be registered with them in order to have them collect payments from music libraries. (So far, I have only done work with live performances.)

I am registered with PRS, and I have previously been asked to choose a U.S. PRO when registering works so that I can collect royalties from performances made on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. https://www.prsformusic.com/our-global-network/partners (The PRS also appear to have agreements with other worldwide PROs.)

I'm really not sure if this answers your question or not, but for what it's worth, I'm giving what I know currently, which - sadly - isn't much.
 
Hi!

Did you find an answer to this (other than the nonsense by people who refuse to read/understand the question)? Did you get in contact with "steve"?

I'm in the exact same situation as you are, and I'm also looking for a worldwide publishing admin. I did have a US-only one before, but my music is used everywhere, so a better solution would be much preferred.
We refuse to read/understand the question? Seriously? Lots of good advice in this thread. There is no "worldwide publishing admin" unless you want to enlist with an agency such as https://www.nrg-agency.com/

Or like Epic Wonder mentioned, a good publishing lawyer.
 
We refuse to read/understand the question? Seriously?
Yes, seriously. And respectfully, judging from this reply, you still don't quite understand. Forgive me if I sound too harsh, but it is frustrating to sift through the replies where people question whether the OP is confused, because you don't understand the situation.

The only relevant answer was from colony nofi, who seemed to understand the situation.

Let me try to explain:

These are not neighboring rights.
We don't need a lawyer.
We own 100% of the writer's and publisher's share.
We are our own publisher.

The libraries we are talking about are libraries such as Pond5 (not the traditional type that you are probably thinking of that control publishing). They only take a percentage of the sync licensing fee, but sell lots of them.

I have sold tens of thousands of licenses. Some of them end up in big commercials.

What we need is a publishing administrator. Not a publisher. Not a lawyer. Not a neighboring rights collector. Not a mechanical rights collector.

A publishing administrator would do the job of using services like TuneSat, BMAT, Vivvix/Numerator to try to find unclaimed royalties for our music. Of course for a percentage (like 10%). These often do NOT get reported automatically, like ads in the US for example.

I have used a US-only publishing admin that tracked down a lot of money from ads that were previously unreported (both writer's and publisher's shares).

I have also had UK-only publishing admins for single cases that found thousands of pounds previously unclaimed.

So, what we are after, is someone who could potentially do this for all countries, or at least Europe/US where the royalties are significant.

The recommendation from colony nofi might be what we're after, but I'm asking about alternatives if that doesn't work out.

And yes, of course we COULD do this work ourselves. However, it can be very time consuming and like the OP, I would rather spend that time making music.
 
Yes, seriously. And respectfully, judging from this reply, you still don't quite understand. Forgive me if I sound too harsh, but it is frustrating to sift through the replies where people question whether the OP is confused, because you don't understand the situation.

The only relevant answer was from colony nofi, who seemed to understand the situation.

Let me try to explain:

These are not neighboring rights.
We don't need a lawyer.
We own 100% of the writer's and publisher's share.
We are our own publisher.

The libraries we are talking about are libraries such as Pond5 (not the traditional type that you are probably thinking of that control publishing). They only take a percentage of the sync licensing fee, but sell lots of them.

I have sold tens of thousands of licenses. Some of them end up in big commercials.

What we need is a publishing administrator. Not a publisher. Not a lawyer. Not a neighboring rights collector. Not a mechanical rights collector.

A publishing administrator would do the job of using services like TuneSat, BMAT, Vivvix/Numerator to try to find unclaimed royalties for our music. Of course for a percentage (like 10%). These often do NOT get reported automatically, like ads in the US for example.

I have used a US-only publishing admin that tracked down a lot of money from ads that were previously unreported (both writer's and publisher's shares).

I have also had UK-only publishing admins for single cases that found thousands of pounds previously unclaimed.

So, what we are after, is someone who could potentially do this for all countries, or at least Europe/US where the royalties are significant.

The recommendation from colony nofi might be what we're after, but I'm asking about alternatives if that doesn't work out.

And yes, of course we COULD do this work ourselves. However, it can be very time consuming and like the OP, I would rather spend that time making music.
If you know so much and we don’t, you should help yourself. 🧠 You have done nothing but complain and rant. 😤 Figure out the problem and work on the solution. 🤔 After all, this is your money, not ours. 💵 Please get to work and stop harassing the rest of us. 🤭
 
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