From the course: Learning Music Licensing
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What does one own when writing and recording?
From the course: Learning Music Licensing
What does one own when writing and recording?
- [Instructor] You've got an incredible idea for a song and you're sure it's going to be a hit, but before you can look to sync your songs or get placements, you need to understand what you actually own when you write and record a song. As you're writing a song and jotting it down by hand, singing it into a phone or programming it into your computer, you are an author on a composition and are therefore the owner of the composition. If you co-wrote the song, then you share the writing credit. The melody and lyrics make up the composition, also called the underlying musical work. Should you ever choose to enter some sort of a publishing deal, the composition, or a portion of it, is what will be changing hands. Let's assume you wrote a song, you and you alone. No co-writers, no unauthorized samples. If you record a song you wrote, you now 100% own the sound recording to that song. What this is also referred to as the master. As the owner of the master, you can choose to keep it and any…
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