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New rights management service for songwriters launches
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 14 April 2010
A new service has launched that will help songwriters manage and exploit their own publishing rights without having to do a publishing or administration deal with a traditional music publisher, instead unsigned songwriters can administrate their own music rights via a web-based platform.
Firstmusiccontrol.com – which seems to be very much in the same territory as Sentric Music, which already represent hundreds of artists on a similar basis – says it wants to “enable and empower the creative community by offering tailor-made online services that breaks open the world of music publishing”.
Firstmusiccontrol.com offer two packages, a basic offering will help signed up rights holders collect their royalties, principally by simplifying their relationship with collecting societies like PRS, while a premium package will see FMC also set up a limited company for the writer, and help them manage their affairs in that way.
Like Sentric, FMC won’t ask for any ownership of the rights of signed up songwriters. It’s not clear if they plan to offer sync representation for their songwriters, an area where Sentric has garnered itself a particularly good reputation in the last eighteen months.