Music Library

FAQs

How do royalty splits and publishing clearances work?

The royalty split allocation and publishing clearance feature of the ‘Add to Music Library’ menu for the relevant release can be used by master recording owners or right holders to request the respective publishing rightsholder(s) of the composition embodied therein to license their publishing rights in order to allow us to provide fully cleared sync licenses to it via the Music Library.   

Once all publishing rights holders have licensed their publishing rights into the track and approved the terms under which the track is being made available, the track is made available for sync licensing in the Music Library. Please note that a track will not  go live in the Music Library until all the required publishing clearances have been approved and licensed by their respective rights holders.

Collabhouse shall pay out any Music Library earnings to users in accordance with the recording and publishing royalty splits provided for each track. License fees collected  from the sale of sync licenses through the Music Library are divided into 50% recording royalties and 50% publishing royalties after deduction of Collabhouse’s 25% commission fee. These recording and publishing royalties are accounted for and paid out in accordance with the recording and publishing royalty splits set for that track on a daily basis, usually within 24 hours after a Music Library license was sold.

For whom is the Music Library?

The Music Library is for Music Makers looking for extra exposure and an increase in royalty generated revenue when getting their songs placed (synchronized) in apps, games, podcasts, videos/film, advertisements, user-generated-content, etc. 

  • Self-releasing Music Makers (i.e. independent self-released artists without a publisher) who exclusively own or control both the master recording as well as all of the publishing rights for their tracks worldwide can license and make available their tracks for sync in the Music Library immediately without any further approvals from other rights holders needed;
  • Music Makers (i.e. artists, record labels, etc) who own or control the exclusive and worldwide master rights in their tracks, but not (all of) the publishing rights into compositions embodied therein, can use the Music Library to license and make available that track for sync licensing to Content Creators, subject to the relevant publishing rights holders approving to license their publishing rights therein to us. The publishing clearance feature of the Music Library can be used to request a license from the respective publishing rightsholder(s). Once all publishing rights holders have accepted to license their publishing rights into the track to us, and approved the terms under which the track is being made available, the track is made available for sync licensing in the Music Library.;
  • Music Makers (i.e. publishers, composers, lyricists) who own or control exclusive worldwide publishing rights in tracks submitted to our Music Library by others can use Collabhouse to license to us their publishing rights into those tracks and approve the terms under which those tracks are being made available for sync licensing via our Music Library and collect their share of any (publishing) royalties generated.

For Content Creators, the Music Library is the online go-to music sync discovery platform, filled with high quality songs to discover and purchase sync licenses to quality music for your next creative project. It is the ideal one-stop-shop music library offering worldwide sync licenses to fully cleared tracks from both established and up-and-coming artists. We offer sync licenses for every budget and type of project, including free licenses. All rights are pre-cleared worldwide!

What is the Music Library?

The Music Library is an online one-stop-shop platform, offering sync licenses to pre-cleared music from both established and up-and-coming artists. 

The Music Library can be used by Content Creators to find and sync-license music from real artists that can be used and synchronized in audio-visual content they create and publish. Music Library licenses are available for almost every type of project, creator and budget. All rights pre-cleared, recording and publishing rights, worldwide.

Music Makers and other rightsholders, like record labels and music publishers, who own or control recording and/or publishing rights in tracks worldwide can offer free or paid sync licenses to their tracks directly to Content Creators using the Music Library as a way to grow their exposure and increase revenue.


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