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Rights, splits & publishing · Lesson 3 of 6

Registering the work: PRO, publisher and the MLC

22 minFoundationalFree

What you’ll be able to do

  • Choose and join a PRO as a writer
  • Register your songs so performance income can find you
  • Know what a publishing administrator adds and what it costs
  • Understand why unregistered songs generate money you never receive

Inside this lesson

  1. 1Watch first: what registration actually looks like
  2. 2The bodies and what each collects
  3. 3Doing it properly
  4. 4What happens when you do not

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  • A coach that can see the releases in your account
  • Narrated — put it on while you work
  • A badge for the track when you finish it
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In this lesson you will learn: Choose and join a PRO as a writer. Register your songs so performance income can find you. Know what a publishing administrator adds and what it costs. Understand why unregistered songs generate money you never receive.

What this lesson covers

Choose and join a PRO as a writer

Register your songs so performance income can find you

Know what a publishing administrator adds and what it costs

Understand why unregistered songs generate money you never receive

Inside this lesson

Watch first: what registration actually looks like

The bodies and what each collects

Doing it properly

What happens when you do not

Take this lesson in the LUCY app

Open this lesson in LUCY and it rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Finish the track and the badge is yours. Free with a LUCY account.