8 Mistakes to Avoid When Registering a Song on BMI, ASCAP & Copyright

Are you afraid that you'll register your music incorrectly and lose your music royalties? In this video I cover the 8 Mistakes to Avoid When Registering a Song on BMI, ASCAP & Copyright and we even touch on music distributors at the end of the video. Everything in this video works for ASCAP, BMI, and most performing rights organizations (PRO).

Here's the next video you should watch after this: How to choose the BEST music distributor

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0:00 Register on BMI before or after I release my song?
0:50 Upload an mp3 during my BMI registration?
1:52 How do I collect publishing royalties?
2:45 Register my beats on BMI?
3:45 How to register public domain lyrics on BMI?
4:35 How to register an album on BMI
5:29 Does my work contain samples if I used a sample library?
6:25 Can I register a song on BMI that I wrote even if another artist performs it?
6:55 Don't lose your Mechanical Royalties!

[IndieMusicAcademy]

Are you affiliated with ASCAP or BMI as a songwriter yet? Leave a comment and let me know what you need to help YOU with your music career!

[mintyswirljoy]

wow! That 200% tip was something I never knew about. I just set up publishing for myself. No need!

[PocketbookProphetOfficial]

This was seriously one of the most helpful videos Ive seen this year! Thank you!

[terryparham]

Excellent video! You answered my question on registering my songs on BMI. Thanks.

[SheenaT]

Great content! Make sure that you double check your aka's when you use the "copy/paste" feature when registering songs from an album so that you don't end up copying one aka meant for one song across all of them.

[Alyssathepayne]

I love your content! Thank you for all your help :)

[saltshaker]

Great info. Well explained. Thanks!!!!

[zephyrkhambatta]

Great insights for beginners to the industry. Thanks.

[GARDNSOUND]

Hey thanks for the vid. You answered my question well!

[TRILLIONUSA]

Great Video! Great Insight. As a longtime beatmaker and award winning the only thing I would add is I submitted 100 + beats to Sony TV for a TV Show and many were used, I did need to register those beats with BMI or ASCAP to get paid publishing that I still receive. Beatmakers don't need to publish their beats unless they will be used in this type of way as a song beat.

[juandediossandoval]

Wow Straight to the point thank you very much sir you got my subscription and continuous following

[johntalbot]

Great tip about completing an album's worth of tracks. I would have been very confused right at the point you said I would! Thanks.

[ceasarrushes]

Definitely answered 2 of my Questions! all the rest I knew! I'm Now Subscribed!!!

[AdafooMN]

I’m working on an animation series and each episode has a few songs. This is helpful. You have a new subscriber

[GeraVMusic]

wow m8 you are such a beauty ! thank you

[baigmusic]

Great content, very helpful, thanks!

[ChasMusic]

Thank you for this. I'm starting to put my music out there and need to learn as much as I can about BMI. Would love to see you do this with copyright.

[Ace_of_DiscaL]

Eye opening! Could you please kindly make a video with guidance for us sampling artists who use excerpts from other songs to create "originals" or remixes?

[dbmajormusictx]

Wows thanks for that on the publisher percentage I have a lot of music im uploading and did this so I don’t want to feel as if I’m missing something

[MartinGallegosMusic]

Wow this is amazing content, thank you Ryan! How can I ask you a question? Should I use a specific form or email?