Step 1 · Listen
What the track needs, honestly.
What we do, in detail
Four services, with the splits and registrations done properly.
Program 01 · Splits before the session
Recording and production
We settle who owns what before the session rather than after the track does well, because that is when agreement becomes difficult. A producer who contributed to the composition has a claim on the song, not just the recording, and leaving that vague is how co-writers end up in disputes years later over something nobody wrote down in an afternoon.
Step 2 · Splits
Who owns what, in writing.
Step 3 · Record
Produced, mixed and mastered.
Step 4 · Deliver
Masters and credits handed over.
Step 1 · The work
What exists, and who wrote it.
Step 2 · Terms
Term, territory and income split.
Step 3 · Advice
Take independent legal advice.
Step 4 · Sign
Copy given to the writer.
Program 02 · Written, or it is not valid
Music publishing
An assignment of copyright is only effective in writing and signed, so there is no such thing as a publishing deal agreed by conversation. We write down what is assigned, for how long and for which territories, and we tell artists to take independent legal advice before signing. If that advice talks them out of it, the deal was not good enough.
Program 03 · Both societies, not one
Rights registration
This is the unglamorous work that decides whether money arrives. Performing and mechanical income on the song is collected through PRS for Music and MCPS; income from use of the recording comes through PPL. Separate registrations, separate memberships. Add wrong metadata on a release and the royalty exists but cannot find its owner.
Step 1 · Audit
What is registered, and where.
Step 2 · Gaps
Which society is missing.
Step 3 · Register
Work and recording, separately.
Step 4 · Metadata
Checked before the release date.
Step 1 · Assessment
Said straight, not flattered.
Step 2 · Plan
What a release needs to work.
Step 3 · Distribute
Released with correct metadata.
Step 4 · Build
Catalogue, not a single moment.
Program 04 · No fee to the artist
Release and artist development
We do not charge an artist a fee to find them work or to be considered, which the law restricts and which we would not do anyway: a company paid upfront has no incentive to be truthful about someone's prospects. We also say when a track is not ready, and when an artist would be better served by another label.
Got music you want heard?
Send it over. The first conversation is free, and we will tell you what we honestly think.