Understanding music copyright is essential for every artist. This guide covers what copyright protects, how registration works, fair use, sampling rules, and how to enforce your rights.
How to clear samples. Avoid legal strikes and royalty loss by mastering the step-by-step process of securing sample permissions.
The sample pack market generated over $130 million in 2023 and is growing. If you produce music, you are already creating what other producers will pay for. This guide covers how to build, price, distribute, and market sample packs that generate consistent monthly income.
Missing royalties are more common than most artists realize. This guide explains why payments go wrong, how to audit your royalty statements, and the exact steps to dispute underpayments with distributors, PROs, and publishers.
A co-publishing deal splits the publisher's share of your songwriting income with a music publisher in exchange for an advance, administration, and creative services. This guide explains how co-pub deals work, what you keep and what you give up, and how to decide if one is right for you.
Audio sample rate and bit depth utilities. Calculate file sizes and quality metrics.
Detect sample rate, channels, bitrate, and duration of audio files instantly.
Auto-detect transients using spectral flux analysis and slice any audio file into individual samples. Fixed-grid BPM mode included. Download all chops as a ZIP of WAV files. No uploads, no sign-up.
The Rights Workshop is a San Francisco-based music supervision, licensing, and creative clearance company founded in 2002 by Brooke Wentz. Provides rights clearance for film, television, streaming media, corporate events, and performing arts, with expertise in complex international licensing and talent negotiation.
Tracks & Fields is a Berlin-based music intelligence and licensing company founded in 2008 that manages music strategy, search, clearance, licensing, and custom composition for global brands and advertising agencies. Has managed over EUR 100 million in music licensing and artist partnerships across offices in Berlin, London, Warsaw, and Tokyo.
SILO Music is an LA-based music agency and publishing home for artists, founded in 2014 by Jack Ormandy. The company represents a curated roster of artists alongside a catalog spanning many genres, providing hand-in-hand sync clearance and premium options beyond a typical library. SILO operates from Los Angeles with approximately 11 employees and offices in Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
