Music Admin

[Penny Bozic]

So If you cover my song and release it. You own the master sound recording, I still own the composition (since I wrote the song). My publishing company would collect my royalties from your cover recording. And your label (or distributor) would collect the royalties from the master sound recording.

Think of the MLC as one of the 60 rights organizations in the world. If you ONLY had your music streamed in the States, then sure, the MLC is all you need to register with. But who ONLY has their music streamed in the US?

As a clarifier, this comparison is only for admin publishing companies. Admin pub companies do NOT own your copyright. Traditional publishing companies will own your copyright. Traditional publishing companies also help you get cuts, get into writer rooms, write for the stars, and pay advances. These admin publishing companies merely collect your publishing royalties from around the world. Every publishing company has an admin department (and many publishing companies actually use Songtrust or Sentric for their admin).

If you WANT to create a publishing company and sign songwriters and such, you can create one, and then you should use an admin publishing company to administer licenses and collect the royalties for your songwriters. But you do NOT need to create your own publishing company to get your money.

Sentric is the only company on this comparison based in the UK. Started by Chris Meehan, it has grown to be one of the largest admin publishing companies in the world. Sentric boasts that it is the largest submitter of live performance setlists (for performance royalty collection). Since they are UK based, and live performances can actually pay a hefty amount in performance royalties, they are all-in.

TuneCore publishing has gone through a ton of changes since it launched about 8 years ago. Longtime readers may remember my initial review of them back in 2013. When they initially launched, they built their program from scratch with the former head of Bug Music. Since his departure, TuneCore decided to dismantle the system he set up and dump their catalog into Sentric for collection.

I sat down with Chris Dampier, who heads TuneCore Publishing, for this review to learn more about the service. Chris previously worked at BMI, and before that Universal Music Group, so he has a deep expertise in the publishing space.

Before this, you were not able to opt out of this, which was a dealbreaker for me. You can now continue to have TuneCore Publishing exclusively represent your sync rights or opt out of it and retain control of it. This update is a huge plus.

This program, the only one of its kind in Canada, prepares students for management positions in various fields within the music industry, such as, music publishing, instrument manufacturing, music/arts management, production and distribution of recorded music, manufacturing of electronic music equipment, and the marketing of music products. Scholarships for the MAS program have been generously donated by Universal Music Canada, Warner Music Canada, and the Music Industries Association of Canada.

The degree, jointly offered by the Department of Music Research and Composition and the Management and Organizational Studies (MOS) program of the Faculty of Social Science, combines central elements of both programs to create an interdisciplinary atmosphere for the study of music management. A core of 8.5 courses from the MOS program and 7.5 courses from Music forms the backbone of the degree, and a further 4.0 courses of electives (usually taken as 8 separate one-term courses) allows students the opportunity to customize the degree so that they may gain further expertise in one or more areas.

The Bachelor of Arts, Specialization in Music Administrative Studies (MAS) program is jointly offered by the Department of Music Research and Composition and the Management and Organizational Studies (MOS) program of the Faculty of Social Science. Studio lessons are not a part of this program, but may be elected for an additional fee.

Required Skills
Ability to accurately assess musical talent and professionalism
High-level organizational and administrative skills
Ability to independently manage work and meet deadlines
Possess an innate sense of responsibility and accountability
Freak-level attention to detail
Excellent computer skills (AirTable, Trello, Google Workspace)

A music publishing administrator manages the rights of a songwriter in the marketplace and helps collect any royalties your songs generate. They do this by registering and licensing your songs with the proper entities, including Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), Collective Management Organizations (CMOs), and Mechanical Rights Organizations (MROs).

Music publishing administrators do not retain any ownership or creative control over the songs they administer. The copyright holder (often the songwriter) does, while the administrator collects royalties and licensing fees on their behalf and charges a small commission fee for their services.

Songtrust is a music publishing administrator. This means that we provide administrative services to independent and unpublished songwriters, including managing your catalog and collecting royalties within a global administration network.

As a membership organisation, we cover the cost of collecting music royalties through our admin rates. We work on continually improving our systems each year so we can keep these as low as possible and we are one of the most cost-effective collecting societies in Europe.

From the December 2019 distribution onwards, we will start to phase in increases to our administration rates when your music is used on radio and TV. An additional 0.5% will be deducted from the licence fees we collect for these services and this is projected to apply for five years. Below you can compare the old rates with the new ones and see when the rates for each channel will change.

FSU offers the unique opportunity to study arts administration in a music context and be a part of the College of Music community. Our faculty are full-time residential teachers with vast experience in the field of arts administration. Small class sizes allow students to build strong relationships with faculty and students. Students will also work with faculty and students in the College of Fine Arts and take courses with students studying Arts Administration and Theatre Management in the Department of Art Education and the School of Theatre.

The programs do intermingle and students will often take classes both in the College of Fine Arts and the College of Music. When applying, please be sure to select the appropriate program for your particular interests and background.

The music that is played is either the default music provided by Microsoft, custom music that you upload and configure, or music streamed from a supported streaming music on hold partner, where you have a subscription.

Callers can listen to Music on Hold in other scenarios as well; for example, when they call into a Cloud Call Queue or when their call is parked by a Microsoft Teams user. These scenarios aren't covered or controlled by the features mentioned in this article.

You can also configure Music on Hold by using the Teams PowerShell module. In the TeamsCallingPolicy, change the -MusicOnHoldEnabledType parameter to Enabled and then grant that policy instance to one or more users.

In addition to playing default music to callers, you can upload a custom audio file with music or other audio content and configure that audio file to be played to the caller. For example, a department or organization might want to play a custom announcement or custom music when external Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) callers are put on hold.

You're responsible for independently clearing and securing all necessary rights and permissions to use any music or audio file with your Microsoft Teams service. This may include intellectual property and other rights in any music, sound effects, audio, brands, names, and other content in the audio file from all relevant rights holders. Holders may include artists, actors, performers, musicians, songwriters, composers, record labels, music publishers, unions, guilds, rights societies, collective management organizations, and any other parties who own, control or license the music copyrights, sound effects, audio and other intellectual property rights.

You can assign a policy directly to users, either individually or at scale through a batch assignment (if supported for the policy type), or to a group that the users are members of (if supported for the policy type).

Streaming Music on Hold allows you to use a supported streaming service to play music to callers. The streaming partner gives you a URL to add to your TeamsCallingPolicy that is then used to play music. You can configure streaming Music on Hold if you have a subscription with a supported partner, such as Easy On Hold.

The following table indicates which features on which clients and devices support Music on Hold, Custom Music on Hold, and Streaming Music on Hold. Microsoft continues to add feature support, so check back often for additional availability.

If you have Zoom Phone activated on your account, you can use the audio library to customize Zoom Phone audio for voicemail, greeting, and hold music. For example, you can customize your voicemail greeting that's played before a caller is routed to voicemail.

Note: After the voicemail greeting, Zoom will play a tone to indicate that voicemail recording has started. There is not a standard audio prompt to state "leave a voicemail after the tone". You can optionally state these instructions as part of your voicemail greeting.

Greeting & Menu: Plays before giving the caller the option to connect to the operator and/or leave voicemail. This greeting should explain the IVR menu displayed in call handling settings.

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