Music business guides

Free, for artists, producers and songwriters. Written for the UK, with pointers for everywhere else.

You made a track with other people. These guides cover what comes next: who owns it, which codes it needs, how the money finds you, and what to agree before anyone presses release.

• ISRC codes What an ISRC is, how to get one in the UK, and why every version needs its own.
• Every song is two copyrights The composition and the master recording, who owns each, and why everything else follows from it.
• How music royalties work in the UK PRS, MCPS, PPL and your distributor: what each one pays for, who it pays, and what you have to register.

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These guides explain how things generally work. They are not legal, tax or financial advice. Every guide links to the organisations that run each system, and their word beats ours. For a contract or a dispute, talk to a music solicitor.