Master's and ownership have become huge topics over the last several years, whether it is a legendary artist fighting to regain control of their masters or a newly signed artist happy to retain ownership of their masters everyone's talking about them.  

You may be wondering what's the big deal, well wonder no more. One song has two parts: Composition (Publishing) and Master (Sound Recording). Each part of the song has the potential to garner royalties be it performance, mechanical, or digital that can only be collected by the owner of the master recording.

If you compose, produce, and record original music and you claim 100% of both the composition and the master recording you have the ability to capitalize on all of the revenue streams by licensing your music for use in Film, Television, Commercial advertising, and sampling by another artist.

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