Introduction to Music Royalties Forensics (North America – USA & CAN)

Price: $90
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Course Overview

Every day, millions of music streams, downloads, digital transmissions, public performances, and broadcasts generate tens of thousands of dollars in unclaimed royalties. To date, the estimated pool of unclaimed royalties exceeds $2 billion.

These royalties are often due to independent music creators, heirs and beneficiaries, and legacy artists. After a period of time, these unclaimed royalties accrue in escrow accounts around the world only to be disbursed by market share to the major labels and publishers leaving the indies, to which much of the money belongs, underrepresented and unaccounted to. Music royalties forensics is the process of searching for, identifying, and claiming these royalties. This course is an introduction to the art and science of finding and unlocking unclaimed royalties.

Your instructor, Dae Bogan, is a music rights and royalties tech entrepreneur (original founder of music rights administration platform, TuneRegistry, and the world’s first search engine of unclaimed royalties and music licenses, RoyaltyClaim), music creators’ rights advocate, and lecturer of music industry entrepreneurship at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He has written about black box royalties extensively on his blog DaeBoganMusic.com. He has helped hundreds of music creators and rights-holders find and unlock hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid music royalties from around the world. And his research on the state of unclaimed music royalties was used by US Congressional Budget Office in its analysis of the Music Modernization Act of 2018.

Learning Objectives

1. What are your rights, entitlements, and income participations as a music creator and/or rights-holder?
2. What are the most common royalty streams generated from a variety of music usage types and where do those royalties flow?
3. How are music royalties allocated and distributed by music rights organizations?
4. What are niche funds and sub-funds that often generate unmatched so-called “black box” royalties and how do you check for your records?
5. How to track music usage to leverage usage and detection reports to reconcile or audit royalty statements?
6. What are some tools and resources to help you search for, identify, and claim unclaimed royalties and music licenses?
7. What are the requirements to properly setup to be accounted to and paid royalties from previously unaffiliated sources going forward?
8. What are some tips for managing your music rights affiliations?
9. What are some tips for preparing your music rights and royalties for beneficiaries?