You have to own or control your own masters and publishing for next three years and the renewal term; and you must be a registered writer of either ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, or your country's Performing Rights Organization (PRO). If you have co-writers, they have to own their own publishing too, be a registered writer with a PRO and they must sign off on the agreement as well. If you or your co-writers have an exclusive administration deal for your publishing with someone like CDBaby, Bug Music, Cherry Lane, TuneCore (Publishing not Digital Distribution), EBA Online or another publishing entity, we can not represent your catalog. If you or your co-writers have a full or co-publishing agreement with another publisher, we can not represent your catalog.
You own 100%. You DO NOT LOSE or GIVE UP any ownership of the copyrights in the master recording or the composition.
Your deal with Synctopia will not prohibit you from doing anything with your music.
You are ONLY granting Synctopia a NON-EXCLUSIVE right to pitch, negotiate and issue non-exclusive licenses for the use of your music by our clients.
Synctopia will collect and send you 50% of all up front revenue generated by the placements we secure for you.
You will be paid 100% writer's performance royalties directly from your performing rights organization for the uses we have generated for you. Synctopia will be paid by the performing rights organization 100% publisher's share for the uses we have generated for you and only those uses.
Synctopia will never give your music away for free. No "gratis" deals will be made.
The agreement will last 3 years. Unless we receive your termination notice, 60 days prior to expiration, the agreement will automatically renew for another 3 years.
You will have to provide a full version, an instrumental version and a clean version (if lyrics are explicit) of your song(s). Also have available upon request, sheet music and stems for your songs (meaning each instrument as its own WAV file that can be stacked and mixed in a DAW as needed by the music editors).
All versions of your songs will be added to our online searchable databases.
All artists receive the same deal and sign the standard agreement. No exceptions will be made; the agreement will not be modified.