If you are interested in publishing and licensing your music, follow the basic steps in this guide to start setting up and promoting your own music licensing store and keep 100% of all your licensing sales! 1. Register your songs First you should register your songs with your country’s copyright office (most now offer online […]

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Over the years our Music PAL (Publishing And Licensing) industry group has had many discussions about songwriters, composers, publishers and libraries marketing and promoting their music licensing sales. These discussions started in April 2008 when the group first launched. Since then we’ve grown to 10,940 members (to date) which includes music copyright owners and publishers […]

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Two new filters, Type and Source, have recently been added to the “Find Music” page for music supervisors, buyers and the public to use.  These new filters have now replaced the Catalogs/Brands filter for the following reasons: 1.  Many catalog and brand names sounded more like genres instead of strictly artist, composer, catalog, collection or […]

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This article gives music publishers and library owners an orientation for setting up and managing either standard or custom tags, and related metadata, for each of their tracks. At top of the Tracks/Songs admin page (in your LicenseQuote publisher account), click Configure (text link) to open the Catalog Configuration console. You’ll also find the Edit […]

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This article provides a list with descriptions about the new Type and Source metadata used for the publisher’s own stores and the LicenseQuote and some new (upcoming) global search filters to be used on the Find Music page. Use of these filters in your own licensing store is optional (go to Tracks/Songs > Configure > […]

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This article highlights some of the most important keys to music publishing and licensing success. It also shows how LicenseQuote helps music creators, publishers and libraries get the most from their music publishing, sub-publishing and licensing success. First, some important criteria which are the full responsibility of each publisher and library owner. Music composition, production […]

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This report is of interest to our publishing clients and any interested music supervisors and licensing buyers. We’ll provide an overview of the current LicenseQuote site activity, trends and provide some related commentary. Primary content providers Number of active publishers – 97 (includes library owners) Accounts with storage plans – 57% (LQ integrated storage) Accounts […]

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The LicenseQuote business model started and evolved from a focus on the ability for music publishers and their clients to easily calculate licensing costs and negotiate various licensing deals. This article explores some of the history and current trends that have shaped our music licensing solutions business model and service platform. Free calculator widget launched […]

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Occasionally we get questions from our newer publishing clients how to best manage their music catalog growth, marketing and sales promotion.  If you are a publisher with an interest in promoting and growing your music catalog and licensing store, this article will give you an outline of tips and suggestions to help you get started, […]

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This report is of interest to our publishing clients and any/all interested music supervisors and licensing buyers. We’ll provide an overview of the current LicenseQuote site statistics, trends and provide some related commentary. Primary content providers Number of active publishers – 95 (includes library owners) Number of accounts with Monthly plan – 25 Number of […]

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