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Money for Your Music: The Facts About Music Licensing |
 | | Depending on where and how someone is going to use a song, there are mechanical rights and synchronization rights that have to be negotiated, and the various parties involved may include the songwriter, publisher, and record company, usually holder of the master rights. |
 | | Song copyrights are held by music publishers (which may be the artist, but more often is a third party), while sound recordings (the masters) are controlled by record companies (which also may be the artist, come to think of it). |
 | | The song's copyright is held by the writers (or the estate of the artists, or whoever was sold the rights). |
| www.musicbizacademy.com /articles/gman_money.htm (1980 words) |
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