Links
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DISTROKID - https://distrokid.com
DistroKid is the easiest way for musicians to get music onto Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube, and more. Unlimited uploads, keep 100% of your earnings, and more features than any other music distributor.
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BANDCAMP - www.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans discover, connect with, and directly support the artists they love. Bandcamp’s mission is to help spread the healing power of music by building a community where artists thrive through the direct support of their fans, and where fans gather to explore the amazing musical universe that their direct support helps create.
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SPOTIFY - www.spotify.com
Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.
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WIKIPEDIA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music's composer/lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two).[citation needed] Performances are considered "public" if they take place in a public place and the audience is outside of a normal circle of friends and family, including converts, nightclubs, restaurants etc. Public performance also includes broadcast and cable television, radio and any other transmitted performance of a live song. Permission to publicly perform a song must be obtained from the copyright holder or a collective rights organization.
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BMI - https://www.bmi.com
BMI was founded in 1939 by forward-thinkers who wanted to represent songwriters in emerging genres, like jazz, blues and country, and protect the public performances of their music. BMI is currently the largest music performing rights organization in the U.S. and continues to nurture new talent and new music. BMI is the bridge between songwriters and the businesses and organizations that want to play their music publicly. As a global leader in music rights management, BMI serves as an advocate for the value of music, representing over 22.4 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.4 million songwriters, composers and music publishers.
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ASCAP - https://www.ascap.com
ASCAP is a performing rights organization of more than one million songwriters, composers and music publishers. We are the only PRO in the US that operates on a not-for-profit basis, and the only one that puts creators first.
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