MONETIZE YOUR MUSIC

How to Monetize Your Music

Want to know more about how songwriters’ profit from their songs? Want to learn about how this business operates in a fun and informative way? You’ll learn how to market and promote your compositions and writers by gaining the essentials needed to run a successful independent or mainstream career in publishing.

With this course you will learn what it takes to effectively exploit and collect royalties on your copyrighted material. There are many aspects to making money from your music. There are also so many ways to miss out or lose money if the proper paperwork isn’t filed and the wrong people are in control of your money. Learning the structure of the music publishing industry is very complex, however this course will give you the knowledge to start developing the perfect plan to success.

The Course

Registration fee: $235 (donation)

Course fee:  n/a

Duration: 4 weeks

Class time: TBA

Next available dates:

January 2020 

What do we do with the funds?

We use the fees that we charge for this program to cover overhead, educational materials, host technology, create and test different business models, conduct market research, and also to drive workforce development initiatives that support and develop the constituents of our community.

Topics Discussed

  • Publishing

  •  Copyright Infringement

  •  Metadata

  •  Sound Exchange

  •  Aggregators

  •  Commission

  •  Curated Playlists

  •  Social Media

  •  The Business of Music

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Materials, Resources & Prerequisites

 

  • Be at least 16 years old
  • Bring a Notebook
  • Bring a Pen/pencil
  • Bring an Open mind