What are Neighbouring Rights ?
NEIGHBOURING RIGHT EXPLAINED
Over the last few years neighbouring rights collection has rapidly grown worlwide and is now a key income source for rights collection in the music industry. Our services are available to labels, master owners, artists and session musicians all over the globe.
Neighbouring Rights is a term that relates to the royalty earned from the public performance of a master recording. In the context of neighbouring rights, public performances include music played in nightclubs, open air venues, restaurants, and coffee shops, in addition to broadcasts on TV, Radio and streaming radio . Simply put, neighbouring rights are public performance royalties due to the sound recording copyright holder.
LATERAL MEDIA WORKS Neighbouring Rights Department takes care of the international collection of neighbouring rights. We provide this service for our own artists as well as other, noteworthy, artists outside our publishing and records roster.
Worldwide, most countries have their own Neighbouring rights collection organization, like Sena in the Netherlands, PPL in the UK and SoundExchange in the US. We take care of repertoire registrations directly at these society’s to ensure correct claims and to keep a close eye on revenue streams.
- Worldwide repertoire registration
- Claiming repertoire
- Researching repertoire and unclaimed income
- Income monitoring and tracking
- Resolving counterclaims
- Transparent and accurate royalty accounting
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In short neighbouring rights are royalties owed to the master copyright holder when their song is played in a different territory.
Through a publishing deal which covers neighbouring rights with us we make sure to search every corner of the globe to find more of your money. We combine innovative technology and our direct relationships with collection societies to pay significantly more to our creators and labels.