Copyright royalties
For songwriters, composers and publishers.
Global Royalty Collection
- Copyright
- Neighbouring rights
- Back-claims
The collection infrastructure behind CPI.
Whether we act as publisher, administrator or sub-publisher, royalty collection sits at the centre of our work. We combine direct society relationships, repertoire data, usage information and royalty analysis to identify and collect income across markets.
Direct copyright membership
We are a member of the local society ourselves, so royalties are paid at source, straight to us, no sub-publisher in between and no sister-society deduction on the way.
Sub-publishing partner
A local partner registers your works and collects on our behalf, and pitches the catalogue in its market.
Rest of the world, through our partners
Everywhere else, we collect through our network of partners and agents, and through the agreements between societies.
Global Royalty Collection
How we collect what you are owed
Whether we act as publisher, administrator or sub-publisher, royalty collection sits at the centre of our work, direct society relationships, repertoire data, usage information and royalty analysis, across markets.
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Register
Works and recordings registered with every society, in the industry formats (CWR, DDEX).
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Monitor
Royalty Power follows where your music is used: radio, TV, streaming and venues.
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Match
Every use compared with what the societies actually paid.
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Claim
Every gap becomes a claim, back-claims included, as far as each society allows.
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Collect
Paid at source wherever we are a member: no sub-publisher in between, no one taking a share on the way.
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Report
A clear statement every quarter, and live data in MyCPI.
Who this is for
Everyone we collect for, writers, composers, artists, producers, labels, publishers and catalogue owners
How we collect
- extra, often, through detection and back-claims
- 30–60% extra, often, through detection and back-claims
- direct society memberships
- 18 direct society memberships
- of missed royalties claimed back
- up to 5 years of missed royalties claimed back
- paid out, with clear statements
- Quarterly paid out, with clear statements
- sister-society fee you do not pay
- 5% sister-society fee you do not pay
- sub-publisher share you keep
- 10–16% sub-publisher share you keep
What's included
Neighbouring rights
For artists, musicians, producers, labels and master owners.
Monitoring & claims
We investigate missing registrations, unmatched usage and historical income, and claim it back as far as each society’s rules allow.
International collection
Through direct memberships and trusted international relationships.
We are members of more and more societies ourselves, and adding more. Where we collect directly, there is no sister-society deduction and no sub-publisher share; everywhere else a trusted partner or our worldwide Buma/Stemra membership covers you.
Royalty Power
Our own technology connects repertoire, royalty and usage data to provide greater control over catalogue income. Registrations go out in CWR and data comes in via DDEX, the industry standards.
MyCPI, your data in real time
Log in to MyCPI for real-time insight into your works, registrations and statements, any time.
Income tracking
Know where your music is played
A lot of music used on TV, online and on stage is never reported. We detect it, register it and claim it, and Royalty Power puts all that data side by side with every society statement and points out exactly where the differences are.
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Media music
We upload your media music with full metadata to Soundaware, Soundmouse and BMAT and to the local societies. Royalty Power generates local and international cue sheets automatically and sends them to the societies, and we check the unclaimed lists and claim back.
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Live
For commercial repertoire we register setlists and check that every venue has been accounted for, in every country.
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Streaming
We compare society payouts with the streams on YouTube, Spotify and iTunes. Did you really receive everything?
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Cross-checked
Because we handle copyright and neighbouring rights, and often see the master statements too, we check all three against each other.
Key facts
- Detection through Soundaware, Soundmouse and BMAT
- Local and international cue sheets, generated and sent automatically
- Unclaimed lists checked and claimed back
- Setlists and venues checked per country
- Streaming data compared with society payouts
- Copyright, neighbouring rights and master statements cross-checked
- Often 30–60% extra collected
We earn our fee back.
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Your music is working worldwide. Are you collecting everything you've earned? We monitor usage, verify distributions and recover missing income, through our own direct society memberships and our Royalty Power platform, with no sister society or sub-publisher taking a share on the way.