Two Types of Rights

First, it is important to understand the basics of music rights. If anyone wants to make money with music, it means that they need to own the rights to earn money with that music (or else they are illegally making money with it). Therefore, before we look at the money aspect of the music, it is important to understand how music and rights can be owned, and by whom.

For every track that is streamed, sold as CD, digitally, or as vinyl, there are two sides to the rights. The first side regards the sound recording (also called master recording), and the second side regards the song (also called composition, or publishing, although not exactly the same). Let’s look at these two sides.

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