Mechanical royalties are a kind of publishing royalty that a songwriter can earn. <\/p>\n
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The term \u201cmechanical\u201d and \u201cmechanical license\u201d has its origins in the \u201cpiano rolls\u201d on which music was recorded in the early part of the 20th Century. Although its concept is now primarily oriented to royalty income from sale of compact discs (CDs), its scope is wider and covers any copyrighted audio composition that is rendered mechanically; that is, without human performers.<\/p>\n
In a nutshell: every time a song you\u2019ve written is manufactured to be sold in a CD, downloaded on a digital music retail site, or streamed through services like Spotify and Rdio, you are owed a mechanical royalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mechanical royalties are a kind of publishing royalty that a songwriter can earn. Wikipedia says: The term \u201cmechanical\u201d and \u201cmechanical license\u201d has its origins in the \u201cpiano rolls\u201d on which music was recorded in the early part of the 20th Century. Although its concept is now primarily oriented to royalty income from sale of compact discs (CDs), its scope is wider and covers any copyrighted audio composition that is rendered mechanically; that is, without human performers. In a nutshell: every time a song you\u2019ve written is manufactured to be sold in a CD, downloaded on a digital music retail site,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3800],"tags":[4935,1091],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n