Your Registration Week
6 lessons and 4 accounts behind you. This is where you find out which parts of the system you could work from memory, with a form open in front of you and nobody to ask.
Six questions follow, all of them off the five lessons behind this one. Answer them the way you would fill the form in, then submit once and read what comes back.
A year of on-demand streaming generates no SoundExchange money at all.
Finish the rule from lesson two
Performance money on a song arrives in two equal halves. The second half stays unclaimed until a publishing name of your own is affiliated at the ________ organisation as the writer.
Almost all of your listening happens inside the United States. Which route leaves you holding more of the mechanical money?
A publishing administrator, since worldwide collection is worth the commission on any catalogue
Direct registration at The MLC, since a commission would land on money it pays out for free
Either one, since both collect US mechanicals in the end
Put the four steps of a SoundExchange registration in order
Run Search and Claim on the back catalogue
File the tax form that fits you
Open the account and tick both roles
Submit the catalogue with a code for every recording
Match each code to what it names
A co-write is registered with the writers' shares adding up to 110 per cent. What happens to the money?
The writer who overclaimed loses their slice and the others are paid on schedule
The contested share goes into suspense, so the collaborators who filled their part in correctly wait too
The MLC settles it from the registration dates and pays the rest out
Finish all six lessons and this academy issues a certificate of completion carrying your name, plus a page where anyone can check it. Reading anonymously records nothing, and a free account collects it.
Then open the joint writer and publisher application before you close this page.