Does DistroKid license your music?

Next, use DistroKid or Soundrop as your main distribution platform. They will license all of your songs for you, make sure your content is 100\% legal, and then they send you a check every month.

Does a music publisher own the copyright?

Essentially, under the admin deal, the publisher has only one role — collecting and auditing the royalties on behalf of the artist. In that case, the songwriter keeps full control over the copyright, paying the publisher 10-25\% of the publisher’s share in the form of an “administration fee”.

How do I copyright my music?

You can register directly with the United States Copyright Office at Copyright.gov. Their system works fine, but it is not entirely user friendly. For that reason, services have popped up that offer to copyright your music for you. They charge their service fees and the required federal filing fee.

Is DistroKid a music publisher?

DistroKid is one of the world’s leading digital distribution companies that gets artists and labels’ music into over 90 digital outlets. That includes Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Tidal, Deezer, etc. Now, they will directly pay revenue from your releases to anyone you want.

Does DistroKid collect all royalties?

DistroKid only collects the money owed from your music’s sales on stores and streams from streaming services (Master recording royalties). Aside from this, DistroKid does not automatically collect additional royalties such as songwriting royalties and performance royalties.

How do I collect royalties from DistroKid?

DistroKid currently doesn’t have any add-on, admin publishing services (at least not yet). So if you distribute your music with DistroKid and wrote the songs, the only way to collect all of your songwriting royalties is via an admin publishing company like SongTrust, Audiam or Kobalt.