Royalties

Royalties:

The music industry is based around artist's, composers, writers, producers and musicians. Each of these roles have to either create original songs or perform for other people, or perform covers. This could be performed live or recorded as a track to be broadcasted. That is where i am going to talk about royalties witch works around recordings of songs and how they sell, get broadcasted, and most importantly who gets payed for what. Over time the industry gets busier and busier and harder and harder so because technology has been built the industry has found ways to keep organised with money.
Royalties are where the roles get payed for their rights in the recordings and in the creating process, and also where the recordings get broadcasted. Royalties found a organised way to get the roles payed fairly, but each role needs to sign up for a certain collection agency and there are 3 types of collection agencies.

Collection agencies:

PPL - Phonographic performance limited.
PRS - performing right society.
MCPS - mechanical copyright protection society.

PPL:

To get royalties from ppl you have to perform on a recording of a song so that could mean playing a specific instrument, singing on the song, singing back up, talking on the song, rapping on the song, basically anything that means performing on the song, could be something different to those things. For example: when a artist is recording a song and wants other people to perform on the song with them, when the recorded song is broadcasted the performers and the musicans earn money whenever the song gets played.
No one else can get royalties from ppl only performers on the track.
You dont need to pay to join ppl it costs no money.

PRS:

To get rights from prs you have to be the composer or writer of the recorded song, composers and writers get rights from prs when they write and create a recorded track and that track gets published and performed on broadcasts whenever their creation of music gets performed or played they earn money. Only they can earn the money, they can get people to perform for them but they wont earn money for their work they have to sign up to ppl royalties to earn money for performing for other people.
So for example: a writer writes a brand new song and wants to record it, they get the performers to sing, play do whatever they need to do then the track gets finished and it gets published and used for all sort of broadcasted things, so whenever their song gets used the writers or composers earn money EVERY time the song gets used.
It is not free to join prs you have to pay £10 to be able to join for life.
There are payments made in april, july, october and december.

MCPS:

Mcps is the technical side of the recorded songs, mcps is eligble for the record label owners, the owners that make copyrights on the songs and basically own the song and everything to do with recording, bascially the record label owners.
What happens is someone will come and record their song but the record label make copyrights on it and build their rights that they own the track and the track was recorded with them, so when the track gets published to the shops and when people start buying the track wherever the track is available to buy the record label earn money because its their copyrights.
If the record label uses a publisher the publisher earns money from their behalf.

Tv and film:

When your songs get used on tv or film it earns the roles money, but the tv and film need lisence to be able to use the songs.

What if there was so lisence and copyright?

If there was no lisence and copyright the roles that record their songs would not earn enough money or maybe not money at all because without lisence or copyrights companys and buyers would just use the recorded tracks with no cost of money and would not get in trouble for using someone elses song without permission, the lisence gives directors, radio stations, tv studios etc permission to use their song but if they want to use the certain song more then once they would have to get lisence for them. The copyrights is made from the record label if a company or anyone does not buy the copyrighted tracks they are known for copyrighting because they are using the song without paying the owner of it.
It is important if the industry had copyrights and lisence because they would not earn their money and would not get their rights because every company would be using their song without people knowing that the record label own the track and the artist or whoever made the track made it. So thats why there is lisence and copyrights for people to get permission and earn the record label, publishers, composers, writers and musicians their money.