Licensing.

Film, television, advertising, brands

Every record in the catalogue is cleared through the label. Stems and alternates on request. Terms are agreed per placement, and the label accounts to the artist on the artist's share.

Producer sessions and beat licences

Producer session

A producer session buys the room, the producer and the beat made in the session, as a demo. It does not license the beat, and it does not by itself give you the right to release the record. The Producer Session Terms, accepted at booking, set out the ownership of the recording and the beat.

First refusal: 30 days

For 30 days after the session you alone may license the record. Email the studio with your booking reference and the licence you want; the licence applies from the day the fee is paid.

Lease · $100

You own the recording and release it yourself. Up to 100,000 streams and one music video; short social clips do not count. No radio and no sync. The producer keeps the beat and may license it to others, so other records may use the same beat.

Exclusive · $500

Exclusive rights to the beat, which is removed from sale permanently. No stream cap; radio and sync included; stems delivered. The recording is yours. A lease already paid on the same beat is credited in full.

Catalogue · no fee

If no licence is purchased within the 30 days, the record is released through Authxntic Records: there is no beat fee, the beat is retired so that no competing version exists, and net receipts are shared. It can also be agreed in writing at any time.

Master ownership

Room or engineer session

The artist owns the recording once the session is paid; no further licence is required.

Lease or exclusive

The artist owns the master and may release it through any distributor; the label has no interest in the record.

Catalogue

The label owns and administers the master and releases it. Net receipts, what the label receives after platform and distributor fees, are shared 50% to the artist and 50% to the label; the producer is paid from the label's portion.

Buyback

An artist may buy back a catalogue record at any time for $1,000, twice the exclusive fee; the master and the beat transfer to the artist.

After first refusal

After the 30 days, the record is added to the catalogue and released by the label, with net receipts shared as above. The artist's buyback remains available.

The composition

Writers keep their writer shares, set on a split sheet signed by every writer. On a record in the label's catalogue, 20% of the publishing is the company's and the company administers the composition; on a lease or an exclusive, the company takes no share of the composition. No share is assumed without a signed split sheet: a song is released, registered or licensed once every writer has signed it, at the session or at release.

Statements

The label accounts twice a year with a statement of receipts and pays the artist's share within 30 days of the statement.