TuneCore Launches New Division: TuneCore Songwriter Service
The increasingly buzzing online music administration space just got a high-powered new entry.
NYC-based TuneCore today announced the launch of TuneCore Songwriter Service, a multifaceted songwriter publishing administration service. It is designed to allow songwriters to efficiently:
TuneCore has added to its offerings with the Songwriter Publishing Administration Service.
— globally register their copyrights
— collect owed royalties
— protect and police their copyrights and songs
— issue licenses on their behalf
According to TuneCore, their Songwriter Service brings heightened transparency to the collection of digital/mechanical royalties associated with song downloads and streams, along with a full suite of synch licensing services for film and TV music supervision-related activities.
The company explains the new division’s processes and scope in greater depth here.
Early adopters of the service include Trent Reznor for releases by Nine Inch Nails and his new project, How To Destroy Angels. Several hundred other songwriters have also signed up during the beta testing, adding up to over 10,000 songs already being represented.
TuneCore’s service joins a growing artist-oriented online rights management sector that includes companies such as SongTrust, which offers a wide array of music publishing royalty tracking/collection services. TuneSat’s new online portal gives independent artists access to the company’s fingerprinting technology for performance rights collection. Meanwhile, RightsFlow’s Limelight enables online cover song licensing, as does HFA’s SongFile service.
The seven-person TuneCore Songwriter Service division is headed up by president Jamie Purpora, who was Director of Royalties and Senior Vice President of Administration as part of his 17-year tenure with NYC-based publisher Bug Music. Bug was acquired by BMG Rights Management in September of this year.
TuneCore’s new service promises to:
1. Register songwriter’s songs with organizations that use and track their copyrights so they know they exist, what songs are theirs and what money belongs to them.
2. Issue any licenses needed and handle any requests for the use of a songwriter’s songs in TV shows, movies, commercials and other media, and negotiate any licenses with TuneCore’s in-house Film & Visual Media department to get them the best possible terms.
3. Represent the songwriter and aggressively pursue all of their songwriting earnings.
4. Get songwriter’s existing “found” money back before it is given to someone else.
5. Police the world on the songwriter’s behalf to find illegal usage or copyright violation and make it stop and/or get the songwriter paid.
TuneCore Songwriter Service costs a one-time payment of $49.99 for global registration, plus 10% of the money TuneCore collects, while the remaining 90% is distributed to the songwriter. Currently artists must be using TuneCore for distribution in order to sign up, but plans are in the works for any rights holder to be able to sign up in the near future.
Since being founded in 2005 by Jeff Price, the Brooklyn-based TuneCore’s customers have sold over 400 million units of music, with total earnings of over $250,000,000.
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