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  • Label
    1. Editorial or recording label. You must specify the name of the Label of your record or album respectively for each album. 2. Own label. If your album is not linked to any record label, you can specify a custom label name or alias (such as your artist name) of your choice in this field. Make sure that the name provided is not misleading or deceptive, nor violate the laws of intellectual property. 3. Label's Name Length. The name of a label should not be too large, otherwise, it may cause metadata conflict for some channels
  • Prices, release date and licenses
    1. Category prices. You must choose a price category from one of four price categories. This does not ensure an identical price in all channels, since the channels have the right to determine the final price of an product, depending on the territory and currency of a sale. The categories are indicative of the range of price you desire for each album individually. The price categories (in the platform) are: Budget: equivalent to an economic or the most affordable price. Mid: equivalent to a standard or common prince in each channel. Full: equivalent to a higher or more expensive than the standard price. Premium: equivalent to the more expensive price. 2. Release dates. Depending on the date indicated in this section, the album will be published in the channels sooner or later. If the album is distributed previously to the release date, it will not be made public until the date indicated before the distribution. If the album is distributed after the release date, it will be directly published within the 2 to 10 work days, from its distribution. 3. License. You can choose between two main types of license, these are: Copyright or Creative Commons. Copyright ensure a full protection of all intellectual rights for each rights’ owner or holder, while Creative Commons has several types of licenses for different types of interests. For more information, go to: http://creativecommons.org/). For publication of an album, it’s required to indicate: (C) The Copyright owner or holder, who is generally the author of the work. (P) The sound recording owner or Publishing right’s holder, who is generally the producer or record label. In the case of groups or bands where rights are shared, the group or band name can be indicated in both cases mentioned above. 4. Territories. If you do not have publishing rights for all territories, or it is not of your interest the publication in all territories, you may indicate the desired territories in the “License” section in the platform.
  • Version, karaoke, tributes, parody, orgel and covers
    1. Versions. To indicate that a Version Track is different from the original, please use the corresponding field for this purpose. Version information will not be accepted as part of an album title. You should also use standard spelling, without abbreviations, and make a proper use of capitalization. 2. Name of the original artist on parody, version, karaoke, tribute and cover tracks or albums. For Parody, Karaoke, Tribute and Cover albums, the name of the original artist should not be displayed in any artist field on track level, nor at the album's level. You must use clarifying language to ensure that consumers will not think those original artists are performing on your album or track. Karaoke exceptions: The karaoke track titles can refer to the original artist. Please, use sentences to clarify that these artist aren't the performers. Use sentences as “Originally Performed by... (original artist name)”. 3. Name of the original artist in the track or album’s titles. The title of a track, as the title of a cover of tribute album, must not make any reference to the original artist. Do not use phrases such as: “Original Performed by”, “In the Style of”, “Tribute to”, “Cover of” or similar. 4. Information of karaoke version. The karaoke albums or tracks must be indicated on the corresponding field as “Instrumental” of “Karaoke” versions. The primary genre of this king of album or tracks must also be set as “Karaoke”. 5. Deceptive or misleading information. Tribute or cover albums must not be deceptive or misleading. Do not use genres, popular song lyrics, or the original artist names as the album title, track title, or artist for karaoke. Content that is considered deceptive or misleading will not be accepted and distributed. 6. Sound-a-likes. Sound-a-likes (cover songs that sound like copies of the original) or unauthorized remixes with deceptive or misleading audio, will not be distributed. 7. Cover licenses. For a cover you will need to present an authorization signed by the original rights owner - who will allow you to use the work for commercial purposes. You can obtain a license through different online services, as for example www.easysonglicensing.com. You need the license only in case that the adapted songs belong to an Anglo-Saxon area. If the songs are from a latin area, South America and Occidental Europe - excluding Aglo-Saxon countries - it is enough to mention at the track level the original composer and the publishing house (label and/or producer rights owner) assigning their correspondent roles. For versions from territories that we don't comment here, please, contact our Support team. If the version modifies substantially the work, as a radical variation of the lyrics/musical content, you must present a more specific rights owner permission to distribute the content. The documentation reported has to be contrastable and true. Attention: Do not confuse the term "version" or "cover" with a "remix". If you did a remix or if you are using any recording sample that belongs to another person, you will have to request the authorization from the original master owner. 8. Continuous mixes and DJ sets. Dj sets (with own or other's artists tracks) and continuous mixes (that is, putting all the tracks of an album together in a single track creating a continuous mix) are not allowed
  • Titles of albums and tracks
    1. Accuracy. Albums and / or tracks titles, should always match the cover image titles as accurately as possible without any class of abbreviation. 2. Additional Information. All titles of albums and / or tracks should not include additional information, unless it is really necessary for the identification of the content. 3. Singles. A disc must be identified as a Single format disc when: If it contains from 1 to 3 tracks with the same title. It means, variations of the same song. If it contains from 1 to 2 tracks with different titles. It means, up to two different songs. If your release has an approximate duration up to 10 minutes. For all Single format discs containing a single track, the disc title and track title must be the same. 4. EPs. A disc must be identified as an EP if: It has 2 tracks and the duration of both is at least 10 minutes. It contains from 4 to 6 tracks with the same title. It means, variations of the same song. It contains from 3 to 6 tracks with different titles. It means, that each song will be different. It has a total duration from 10 to 30 minutes. 5. Album. A disc must be identified as an album if it overcomes one of the previous ones. 6. Audios must match. Audio files and track titles must always match. It's not accepted to upload an audio to the non-corresponding track. 7. Generic titles. Do not use generic titles for the tracks. Titles as: Track 01, Track 02, will not be accepted until they are really the original track titles. This same rule is applied for the release titles, titles as "Album", "EP" or "Single" won't be accepted. 8. Multiple titles for album and tracks. The albums and / or tracks containing multiple titles must be separated with a slash. Please insert a space before and after the slash. 9. Silent and hidden tracks. The silent tracks, hidden tracks, and ghost tracks, should be clearly indicated in the version field. It is possible that we need a justification to know the reason why they are included and the duration in relation to the whole content. 10. Tracks version information. To differentiate between multiple versions of the same track, or indicate that a track is different from its original version, use the corresponding description in its version field. 11. Use of "Exclusive" or "Limited Edition". The titles of albums and / or tracks must not contain terms such as "Exclusive" or "Limited Edition", because the titles are a permanent part of the content. 12. References physical contents and / or digital, or content which is not included. The album titles should not include terms referring to contents which are not included in the album. Such as, physical formats, digital formats, and / or geographic location. Some examples are: E-Release, Digital Version, Digital Only, Digital Download, with Booklet, European Edition, American Edition, etc. 13. Unnecessary version information. The standard version, i.e., the original version of a track, must not include additional information. For example: Original Version, Album Version, Original Mix, etc. 14. Live content. If a track is recorded live, it must be indicated in the version field as "Live", " Ao Vivo", "En Vivo", and so on, accordingly to the language of the album. If all tracks are recorded live, it must also be indicated in the version field of the album. 15. “Deluxe Edition” / “Extended” and “Bonus Tracks” use. A "Deluxe Edition” or “Extended” release can be published when a previous album version exists - providing additional material to the first one; the incorporation of the old material can't be omitted . As well, a “Bonus Track” will be accepted if it is included in an release like that. It must be indicated on the field “version or remix”. In no case will be accepted a track title as “Bonus Track”. 16. Censoring Words. Artist names, track titles, and album titles must be submitted in the original form that was intended by the artist. Explicit words are automatically censored in some channels, and would appear as for example: f**k, or s**t. So do not insert the asterisks in the titles. 17. Side-by-side translations: Side-by-side translation in korean are not allowed by the channel (this means, translating the title to the english and including it in the own title as a part of it). (For example: "이카루스" is correct, but "Rise 이카루스" won't be accepted)
  • Artist or band names
    Please, be sure to accomplish all the following requirements in order to distribute your release correctly, thereby preventing additional updates and other arrangements that would imply additional costs to the distribution. 1. Artist name choice. Before distributing your album, make sure that no other artists is currently using the same artist or band name (similar or identical), since this can cause conflicts in the channels, and your albums may be combined under the catalog of the other artist with similar artist or band name, or vice-versa. 2. Primary artist assignation. The main artist of an album, must appear as the primary throughout the complete album. 3. Format. The spelling of the artist name, must be correct and consistent across the entire contents of that artist 4. Composer. Composers have to be indicated only at the track level, not at the release level - except if we talk about Singles with only one track. Non classical music composers have to appear at both levels (track and release). If there are more than 4 composers appearing in all tracks we will have to use “Various Composers” instead to list them one by one. At the album's level you can use all roles as wanted, as long as all the involved ones (producers, performers, composers, etc.) appear in all tracks without exception. 5. Other information. The artist's name must not include any additional information, such as his role, dates, instrument, former band, webpage, etc. 6. "Various Artists" use. If there are four or more primary artists on the album, the artist name to be mentioned at album’s level must be "Various Artists". Do not include more than three primary artists at album level. At the track level is preferable that do not appear too many primary artists names. It is important not to confuse the role with "performer". For example, if it's about a band, the band name must appear as primary artist and the members names as performers. 7. Incorrect Display of "Various Artists". Variations or abbreviations of "Various Artists" (eg "V/A", "VA", "Various", "Various Artist" or similar) should not be used as an artist name for the content in English. The translation of "Various Artists" are acceptable, but, only if they are compatible with the language of the content. 8. Compound Artist. Each artist field must only contain one artist name. Two or more performers or groups in the same artist field is considered a compound artist, although artists who are generally listed together as a band are not considered compound artists and can or must be listed together. If it is not the case, and there is more than one performing artist, each artist must be listed individually and assigned as Primary. 9. Generic Artists. Generic artists such as “Chorus”, “Orchestra”, and “Singer”, are not accepted in any genre. The artist names should be specific to a person, a group or band, a show or a production. 10. Original Artist Name in Artist Field. For karaoke, tribute, orgel, parody, cover albums, and ringtones, the name of the original artist must not be displayed in any artist field
  • Audio files requirements
    1. Mastering. In order to ensure good audio quality, and meet the standards of today's music industry, all audio files, must have undergone a professional mastering before their distribution. 2. Audio quality. The audio files should not have any sound imperfection. Audio files containing any background noise, and/or other sound imperfections will not be accepted for distribution. Audio type - Audio, Format - flac, Requirements - Minimum of 16 bit, 44.1 Khz, stereo. Or Audio type - Audio, Format - Wav, Requirements - Recommended 24 bits, 48Khz or 24 bits 96Khz. 3. Audios and their titles. Audio files must match their respective song or track title. 4. Silences or pauses. Silence cuts, pauses or extended silences at the end of the tracks are not allowed by the channels. If a song ends with a final silence it should last no longer than ten seconds.
  • Cover art requirements
    1. Quality of images. The cover art must not be any of the following: blurry, pixelated, mismatched, misaligned, rotated, incorrect, or have other quality issues. 2. Links and webpages. The cover art must not contain website addresses, websites that sell music, mention to social media, logos of any store or services related to entertainment, mention to phisical formats, or any external reference of the digital release. 3. Credits and collaborations. The cover art can include credits or other artist's names who are not the primary artist of the release, always in a precise form and without any type of abbreviattion. The introduced information in the cover will have to be reproduced with extreme precision in the metadata and vice versa. And, similarly, expressions like "all rights reserved" - or equivalent - cannot be used. Not even other redundant or unnecessary information. The release reference number can appear in the cover, but not the release's UPC or any track's ISRC codes. 4. Tracklisting and illegible texts. The cover art must not contain track listing, as the image will be generally visualized in small formats and it won't be able to appreciate small size texts. In general, is recommended to use legible fonts in the cover, specially for the sizing. 5. Descriptions and biographies. The cover art must not include albums' descriptions, nor artist's biographies. 6. Telephone or email addresses. The cover art must not contain any telephone number and email addresses. 7. Digital Product. The cover art must not include references to it being a digital product. 8. Pricing. The cover art must not include references to pricing, nor any information with promotional purposes. 9. Pornography. The cover art must not contain pornography or to do any violence apology, neither a URL of any website that contains or links to pornography content. 10. Misleading information. The cover art must not be misleading. For example, prominently depicting or referencing an artist even though the artist does not perform on the album. 11. Missing Content. The cover art must not contain references to content that the album doesn't contain, such as “included DVD” or “includes lyrics.” 12. Offensive Symbolism. The cover art must not contain any kind of symbolism that offends a specific group of persons or ethnicities, such as nazi symbolism restricted by the Strafgesetzbuch section 86a. 13. Irrelevant information. The cover art must not include additional information which are irrelevant to the content's identification, such as album descriptions, artist biography, music genre, instrument with which the album is executed, credits or any text incorporing merely ornamental characters that do not guard an explicit relation with the content. Preferably in occidental languages contents, it is necessary to avoid the use of extraoccidental or special characters - such as the Asian or Arabic characters, among others - until they guard an explicit, justifiable and coherent relation with the content. 14. Dimensions of cover art. The cover art of all releases must accomplish with all following requirements: Proportion: Exactly squared Minimum size: 3000 x 3000px Maximum size: 5000 x 5000px Accepted formats: JPG, TIFF or PNG Mode: RGB (CMYK is not acceptable) Maximum size of file: 36 MB The images which do not accomplish with all the above requirement will not be acceptable and may not be shown in the channels. 15. Logos, images and registered brand. Every logo appearing in the cover must be justified in the metadata, including the involved texts. These logos will be accepted if they guard clear relation with the album's content and explain some relevant information - producer, artist, label, etc. Designers or artists -who created the cover design- mentions won't be accepted as any other external content that isn't involved with the release directly. Any registered brand can appear in the cover, or any other person / company / property images institution. Is totally prohibited the explicit or implicit promotion of them. Their appearance in the cover will only be accepted if they are visually irrelevant and it can only help to clarify the cover's intention, and not to promote any product, brand, institution or company. Note: a company name or logo will be able to appear in the cover and/or in the metadata only if it accomplishes some relevant role in the release (in a musical or/and publishing point of view), and remain justified in the metadata (for example: as a producer or publisher). In addition, it will be necessary to report documentation to prove the consent of the involved mentioned institution to use its name.
  • What is a Composition?
    A Composition is a music asset type that represents the musical work embodied within a master recording (sound recording). The copyright in the song encompasses the words and music and is owned by the songwriter and/or music publisher. The copyright in the musical work itself is owned by the songwriter and/or the music publisher, who grant the record label a "mechanical" license to record and distribute the song as part of the record. Each composition may be embedded within multiple sound recordings but each sound recording will only have one embedded composition asset.
  • What is Copyright?
    Copyright is the legal right to exclusive publication, production, sale or distribution of a literary or artistic work. Copyright is granted by law in most countries and in the United States by a federal statute called The Copyright Act of 1976.
  • What is Fair Use?
    Fair Use is an exception in the copyright law that allows small portions of a work to be used without permission for nonprofit, news, educational, or parody purposes. The doctrine is however often misunderstood. To fall under "Fair Use", only a small portion of the work may be used and the use must not affect the value or marketability of the work. Selling concert recordings or photocopying sheet music without permission would not fall under fair use. Check out the following links for more information on Fair Use: Copyright.gov - Fair Use The official Copyright Office explanation of Fair Use. What Is Fair Use? Useful resource from YouTube about Fair Use. "Copyright and Fair Use Overview" on Stanford.edu An article covering Fair Use in detail.
  • What is a Music Video?
    A Music Video is a music asset type that represents audiovisual music content. Music video assets are generally promotional clips. Music video assets usually embed sound recordings
  • What is Royalties?
    Royalties are fees paid to rights owners (normally record labels, publishers, writers and performers) for the use of their work.
  • Label
    1. Editorial or recording label. You must specify the name of the Label of your record or album respectively for each album. 2. Own label. If your album is not linked to any record label, you can specify a custom label name or alias (such as your artist name) of your choice in this field. Make sure that the name provided is not misleading or deceptive, nor violate the laws of intellectual property. 3. Label's Name Length. The name of a label should not be too large, otherwise, it may cause metadata conflict for some channels
  • Prices, release date and licenses
    1. Category prices. You must choose a price category from one of four price categories. This does not ensure an identical price in all channels, since the channels have the right to determine the final price of an product, depending on the territory and currency of a sale. The categories are indicative of the range of price you desire for each album individually. The price categories (in the platform) are: Budget: equivalent to an economic or the most affordable price. Mid: equivalent to a standard or common prince in each channel. Full: equivalent to a higher or more expensive than the standard price. Premium: equivalent to the more expensive price. 2. Release dates. Depending on the date indicated in this section, the album will be published in the channels sooner or later. If the album is distributed previously to the release date, it will not be made public until the date indicated before the distribution. If the album is distributed after the release date, it will be directly published within the 2 to 10 work days, from its distribution. 3. License. You can choose between two main types of license, these are: Copyright or Creative Commons. Copyright ensure a full protection of all intellectual rights for each rights’ owner or holder, while Creative Commons has several types of licenses for different types of interests. For more information, go to: http://creativecommons.org/). For publication of an album, it’s required to indicate: (C) The Copyright owner or holder, who is generally the author of the work. (P) The sound recording owner or Publishing right’s holder, who is generally the producer or record label. In the case of groups or bands where rights are shared, the group or band name can be indicated in both cases mentioned above. 4. Territories. If you do not have publishing rights for all territories, or it is not of your interest the publication in all territories, you may indicate the desired territories in the “License” section in the platform.
  • Version, karaoke, tributes, parody, orgel and covers
    1. Versions. To indicate that a Version Track is different from the original, please use the corresponding field for this purpose. Version information will not be accepted as part of an album title. You should also use standard spelling, without abbreviations, and make a proper use of capitalization. 2. Name of the original artist on parody, version, karaoke, tribute and cover tracks or albums. For Parody, Karaoke, Tribute and Cover albums, the name of the original artist should not be displayed in any artist field on track level, nor at the album's level. You must use clarifying language to ensure that consumers will not think those original artists are performing on your album or track. Karaoke exceptions: The karaoke track titles can refer to the original artist. Please, use sentences to clarify that these artist aren't the performers. Use sentences as “Originally Performed by... (original artist name)”. 3. Name of the original artist in the track or album’s titles. The title of a track, as the title of a cover of tribute album, must not make any reference to the original artist. Do not use phrases such as: “Original Performed by”, “In the Style of”, “Tribute to”, “Cover of” or similar. 4. Information of karaoke version. The karaoke albums or tracks must be indicated on the corresponding field as “Instrumental” of “Karaoke” versions. The primary genre of this king of album or tracks must also be set as “Karaoke”. 5. Deceptive or misleading information. Tribute or cover albums must not be deceptive or misleading. Do not use genres, popular song lyrics, or the original artist names as the album title, track title, or artist for karaoke. Content that is considered deceptive or misleading will not be accepted and distributed. 6. Sound-a-likes. Sound-a-likes (cover songs that sound like copies of the original) or unauthorized remixes with deceptive or misleading audio, will not be distributed. 7. Cover licenses. For a cover you will need to present an authorization signed by the original rights owner - who will allow you to use the work for commercial purposes. You can obtain a license through different online services, as for example www.easysonglicensing.com. You need the license only in case that the adapted songs belong to an Anglo-Saxon area. If the songs are from a latin area, South America and Occidental Europe - excluding Aglo-Saxon countries - it is enough to mention at the track level the original composer and the publishing house (label and/or producer rights owner) assigning their correspondent roles. For versions from territories that we don't comment here, please, contact our Support team. If the version modifies substantially the work, as a radical variation of the lyrics/musical content, you must present a more specific rights owner permission to distribute the content. The documentation reported has to be contrastable and true. Attention: Do not confuse the term "version" or "cover" with a "remix". If you did a remix or if you are using any recording sample that belongs to another person, you will have to request the authorization from the original master owner. 8. Continuous mixes and DJ sets. Dj sets (with own or other's artists tracks) and continuous mixes (that is, putting all the tracks of an album together in a single track creating a continuous mix) are not allowed
  • Titles of albums and tracks
    1. Accuracy. Albums and / or tracks titles, should always match the cover image titles as accurately as possible without any class of abbreviation. 2. Additional Information. All titles of albums and / or tracks should not include additional information, unless it is really necessary for the identification of the content. 3. Singles. A disc must be identified as a Single format disc when: If it contains from 1 to 3 tracks with the same title. It means, variations of the same song. If it contains from 1 to 2 tracks with different titles. It means, up to two different songs. If your release has an approximate duration up to 10 minutes. For all Single format discs containing a single track, the disc title and track title must be the same. 4. EPs. A disc must be identified as an EP if: It has 2 tracks and the duration of both is at least 10 minutes. It contains from 4 to 6 tracks with the same title. It means, variations of the same song. It contains from 3 to 6 tracks with different titles. It means, that each song will be different. It has a total duration from 10 to 30 minutes. 5. Album. A disc must be identified as an album if it overcomes one of the previous ones. 6. Audios must match. Audio files and track titles must always match. It's not accepted to upload an audio to the non-corresponding track. 7. Generic titles. Do not use generic titles for the tracks. Titles as: Track 01, Track 02, will not be accepted until they are really the original track titles. This same rule is applied for the release titles, titles as "Album", "EP" or "Single" won't be accepted. 8. Multiple titles for album and tracks. The albums and / or tracks containing multiple titles must be separated with a slash. Please insert a space before and after the slash. 9. Silent and hidden tracks. The silent tracks, hidden tracks, and ghost tracks, should be clearly indicated in the version field. It is possible that we need a justification to know the reason why they are included and the duration in relation to the whole content. 10. Tracks version information. To differentiate between multiple versions of the same track, or indicate that a track is different from its original version, use the corresponding description in its version field. 11. Use of "Exclusive" or "Limited Edition". The titles of albums and / or tracks must not contain terms such as "Exclusive" or "Limited Edition", because the titles are a permanent part of the content. 12. References physical contents and / or digital, or content which is not included. The album titles should not include terms referring to contents which are not included in the album. Such as, physical formats, digital formats, and / or geographic location. Some examples are: E-Release, Digital Version, Digital Only, Digital Download, with Booklet, European Edition, American Edition, etc. 13. Unnecessary version information. The standard version, i.e., the original version of a track, must not include additional information. For example: Original Version, Album Version, Original Mix, etc. 14. Live content. If a track is recorded live, it must be indicated in the version field as "Live", " Ao Vivo", "En Vivo", and so on, accordingly to the language of the album. If all tracks are recorded live, it must also be indicated in the version field of the album. 15. “Deluxe Edition” / “Extended” and “Bonus Tracks” use. A "Deluxe Edition” or “Extended” release can be published when a previous album version exists - providing additional material to the first one; the incorporation of the old material can't be omitted . As well, a “Bonus Track” will be accepted if it is included in an release like that. It must be indicated on the field “version or remix”. In no case will be accepted a track title as “Bonus Track”. 16. Censoring Words. Artist names, track titles, and album titles must be submitted in the original form that was intended by the artist. Explicit words are automatically censored in some channels, and would appear as for example: f**k, or s**t. So do not insert the asterisks in the titles. 17. Side-by-side translations: Side-by-side translation in korean are not allowed by the channel (this means, translating the title to the english and including it in the own title as a part of it). (For example: "이카루스" is correct, but "Rise 이카루스" won't be accepted)
  • Artist or band names
    Please, be sure to accomplish all the following requirements in order to distribute your release correctly, thereby preventing additional updates and other arrangements that would imply additional costs to the distribution. 1. Artist name choice. Before distributing your album, make sure that no other artists is currently using the same artist or band name (similar or identical), since this can cause conflicts in the channels, and your albums may be combined under the catalog of the other artist with similar artist or band name, or vice-versa. 2. Primary artist assignation. The main artist of an album, must appear as the primary throughout the complete album. 3. Format. The spelling of the artist name, must be correct and consistent across the entire contents of that artist 4. Composer. Composers have to be indicated only at the track level, not at the release level - except if we talk about Singles with only one track. Non classical music composers have to appear at both levels (track and release). If there are more than 4 composers appearing in all tracks we will have to use “Various Composers” instead to list them one by one. At the album's level you can use all roles as wanted, as long as all the involved ones (producers, performers, composers, etc.) appear in all tracks without exception. 5. Other information. The artist's name must not include any additional information, such as his role, dates, instrument, former band, webpage, etc. 6. "Various Artists" use. If there are four or more primary artists on the album, the artist name to be mentioned at album’s level must be "Various Artists". Do not include more than three primary artists at album level. At the track level is preferable that do not appear too many primary artists names. It is important not to confuse the role with "performer". For example, if it's about a band, the band name must appear as primary artist and the members names as performers. 7. Incorrect Display of "Various Artists". Variations or abbreviations of "Various Artists" (eg "V/A", "VA", "Various", "Various Artist" or similar) should not be used as an artist name for the content in English. The translation of "Various Artists" are acceptable, but, only if they are compatible with the language of the content. 8. Compound Artist. Each artist field must only contain one artist name. Two or more performers or groups in the same artist field is considered a compound artist, although artists who are generally listed together as a band are not considered compound artists and can or must be listed together. If it is not the case, and there is more than one performing artist, each artist must be listed individually and assigned as Primary. 9. Generic Artists. Generic artists such as “Chorus”, “Orchestra”, and “Singer”, are not accepted in any genre. The artist names should be specific to a person, a group or band, a show or a production. 10. Original Artist Name in Artist Field. For karaoke, tribute, orgel, parody, cover albums, and ringtones, the name of the original artist must not be displayed in any artist field
  • Audio files requirements
    1. Mastering. In order to ensure good audio quality, and meet the standards of today's music industry, all audio files, must have undergone a professional mastering before their distribution. 2. Audio quality. The audio files should not have any sound imperfection. Audio files containing any background noise, and/or other sound imperfections will not be accepted for distribution. Audio type - Audio, Format - flac, Requirements - Minimum of 16 bit, 44.1 Khz, stereo. Or Audio type - Audio, Format - Wav, Requirements - Recommended 24 bits, 48Khz or 24 bits 96Khz. 3. Audios and their titles. Audio files must match their respective song or track title. 4. Silences or pauses. Silence cuts, pauses or extended silences at the end of the tracks are not allowed by the channels. If a song ends with a final silence it should last no longer than ten seconds.
  • Cover art requirements
    1. Quality of images. The cover art must not be any of the following: blurry, pixelated, mismatched, misaligned, rotated, incorrect, or have other quality issues. 2. Links and webpages. The cover art must not contain website addresses, websites that sell music, mention to social media, logos of any store or services related to entertainment, mention to phisical formats, or any external reference of the digital release. 3. Credits and collaborations. The cover art can include credits or other artist's names who are not the primary artist of the release, always in a precise form and without any type of abbreviattion. The introduced information in the cover will have to be reproduced with extreme precision in the metadata and vice versa. And, similarly, expressions like "all rights reserved" - or equivalent - cannot be used. Not even other redundant or unnecessary information. The release reference number can appear in the cover, but not the release's UPC or any track's ISRC codes. 4. Tracklisting and illegible texts. The cover art must not contain track listing, as the image will be generally visualized in small formats and it won't be able to appreciate small size texts. In general, is recommended to use legible fonts in the cover, specially for the sizing. 5. Descriptions and biographies. The cover art must not include albums' descriptions, nor artist's biographies. 6. Telephone or email addresses. The cover art must not contain any telephone number and email addresses. 7. Digital Product. The cover art must not include references to it being a digital product. 8. Pricing. The cover art must not include references to pricing, nor any information with promotional purposes. 9. Pornography. The cover art must not contain pornography or to do any violence apology, neither a URL of any website that contains or links to pornography content. 10. Misleading information. The cover art must not be misleading. For example, prominently depicting or referencing an artist even though the artist does not perform on the album. 11. Missing Content. The cover art must not contain references to content that the album doesn't contain, such as “included DVD” or “includes lyrics.” 12. Offensive Symbolism. The cover art must not contain any kind of symbolism that offends a specific group of persons or ethnicities, such as nazi symbolism restricted by the Strafgesetzbuch section 86a. 13. Irrelevant information. The cover art must not include additional information which are irrelevant to the content's identification, such as album descriptions, artist biography, music genre, instrument with which the album is executed, credits or any text incorporing merely ornamental characters that do not guard an explicit relation with the content. Preferably in occidental languages contents, it is necessary to avoid the use of extraoccidental or special characters - such as the Asian or Arabic characters, among others - until they guard an explicit, justifiable and coherent relation with the content. 14. Dimensions of cover art. The cover art of all releases must accomplish with all following requirements: Proportion: Exactly squared Minimum size: 3000 x 3000px Maximum size: 5000 x 5000px Accepted formats: JPG, TIFF or PNG Mode: RGB (CMYK is not acceptable) Maximum size of file: 36 MB The images which do not accomplish with all the above requirement will not be acceptable and may not be shown in the channels. 15. Logos, images and registered brand. Every logo appearing in the cover must be justified in the metadata, including the involved texts. These logos will be accepted if they guard clear relation with the album's content and explain some relevant information - producer, artist, label, etc. Designers or artists -who created the cover design- mentions won't be accepted as any other external content that isn't involved with the release directly. Any registered brand can appear in the cover, or any other person / company / property images institution. Is totally prohibited the explicit or implicit promotion of them. Their appearance in the cover will only be accepted if they are visually irrelevant and it can only help to clarify the cover's intention, and not to promote any product, brand, institution or company. Note: a company name or logo will be able to appear in the cover and/or in the metadata only if it accomplishes some relevant role in the release (in a musical or/and publishing point of view), and remain justified in the metadata (for example: as a producer or publisher). In addition, it will be necessary to report documentation to prove the consent of the involved mentioned institution to use its name.
  • What is a Composition?
    A Composition is a music asset type that represents the musical work embodied within a master recording (sound recording). The copyright in the song encompasses the words and music and is owned by the songwriter and/or music publisher. The copyright in the musical work itself is owned by the songwriter and/or the music publisher, who grant the record label a "mechanical" license to record and distribute the song as part of the record. Each composition may be embedded within multiple sound recordings but each sound recording will only have one embedded composition asset.
  • What is Copyright?
    Copyright is the legal right to exclusive publication, production, sale or distribution of a literary or artistic work. Copyright is granted by law in most countries and in the United States by a federal statute called The Copyright Act of 1976.
  • What is Fair Use?
    Fair Use is an exception in the copyright law that allows small portions of a work to be used without permission for nonprofit, news, educational, or parody purposes. The doctrine is however often misunderstood. To fall under "Fair Use", only a small portion of the work may be used and the use must not affect the value or marketability of the work. Selling concert recordings or photocopying sheet music without permission would not fall under fair use. Check out the following links for more information on Fair Use: Copyright.gov - Fair Use The official Copyright Office explanation of Fair Use. What Is Fair Use? Useful resource from YouTube about Fair Use. "Copyright and Fair Use Overview" on Stanford.edu An article covering Fair Use in detail.
  • What is a Music Video?
    A Music Video is a music asset type that represents audiovisual music content. Music video assets are generally promotional clips. Music video assets usually embed sound recordings
  • What is Royalties?
    Royalties are fees paid to rights owners (normally record labels, publishers, writers and performers) for the use of their work.
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