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[@StephanDavis-mg6ux]

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[@TonyThomas10000]

Thanks for all you do, Miss K!

[@perfectlyflawedmedia13]

I love these videos, where you're answering all of the questions people have!

[@therealdeal26]

***Exactly She is the Best!!***

[@TopMusicAttorney]

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[@gottech5601]

​@@TopMusicAttorney hello it seems like there's not alot of distribution companies that are not that great I started with tunecore then I left them and went to distrokid I didn't like the additional fees like promoting, youtube i.d and etc you would have to pay for annually currently I'm with cdbaby so far I don't have any issues I noticed they partner with the mlc if you get a chance can you do a video on that. Also I have a question when submitting your music to these music licensing companies I notice they have a section called playlist names. What is that? Do I have to write in that section the mood of the song, the genre of the song or what my music sound similar too like justin timberlake or bruno mars I hope to hear back from you take care.

[@armonic7956]

I’m sorry i didn’t catch the name of the distribution you use ? if you could please let me know thanks thanks for the great videos 👍🏽🙌🏽

[@Snarkapotamus]

Smart girl! My spirit animal in a different lifetime. I'm not a lawyer but live for the minutiae and understand exactly what she's saying when it comes to the fine art of CYA and dotting all the t's and crossing all the i's...the better your underlying legal foundation, the solider your chances of success!

[@TopMusicAttorney]

CYA indeed! I've never been called a spirit animal, you made my day 😅 Thanks for being here

[@emnyce95]

You would make a perfect manager 😊

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Aww, Thanks for being here. While I don't act as a manager (other than in my own career) As an attorney I guide my clients though there career and help them find the right path for them.

[@humblinghumblrooski]

Question: I was thinking , if a company or someone promotes another company or individual, wouldn't somebody paying for streams or something just be another way of promoting? I don't know much about this stuff but that was my surface thought when I first heard it. Another thing if someone created something , it's simply not right for anyone to keep their fruits from that. Just because someone creates a bad contract and someone falls for it, it doesn't make it ok to take the creators money. In that case people could just make up stuff to unjustly enrich themselvrs or their company .

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Sneaky contract language is not acceptable 👿 Appreciate you being here 🙏

[@TonyThomas10000]

I hope you will deal with the Copyright Royalty Board that sets rates for small Internet radio stations and streamers. They have pretty much shut down small stations while over-the-air radio stations don't even have to pay any royalties. That limits the ability of small artists to be heard and small Internet stations to exist. I was an Internet Radio pioneer since 1998 when we uploaded using 33.6 modems!

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Love that you were a internet radio pioneer! Especially with Independent college radio, there is not a lot in place collections wise, and certainly a lot of misunderstanding, which ultimately ends up resulting in artists not getting paid their public performance royalties. Appreciate you being here!

[@TonyThomas10000]

@@TopMusicAttorney Yeah, I started in college radio when I was in high school. I went to broadcasting school out of high school but did not get my first radio gig until I moved to LA in 1979. I loved back to CLE in 1989 and worked at 3-4 radio stations including almost 10 years at a jock on Soft AC stations. Around 1998, I was with Internet Radio DAER for a few years. Around 2008-9 I was with Legato Cafe. Internet radio pretty much died off when the royalties came in. They could not make enough $$$ to survive. The only platform that seems to be surviving is Live365 and to have a decent reach, the base price is around $100/month.

[@dmex7777]

I quit distro kid years ago for one you can't upload your own videos unless you like or comment on other videos

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Which distributor are you currently with? Are you an artist or producer?

[@AA-ho5mg]

@@TopMusicAttorneyI would like to know what are some distributors you recommend or think are at least decent?

[@jeygam1s766]

@@TopMusicAttorney I NEED TO KNOOWWW I'm new and I want to be safe.

[@uhuhuhuhuyes]

3:32 I cannot for the life of me find the company your talking about lol. what is the company you now use called?

[@JaySpangler]

I figured it out. She’s saying Priam Digital, which does come up as a Music distributor in a Google search.

[@mikal]

All of the big 3 (4?) services have issues. Distrokid is quite possibly the worst of all. They're still distributing another artist's music to MY official channels. I told them to remove their stuff from MY channels, and their reply was "Sign up for a membership and pay us, or we won't remove the other artist's work from your channels." How exactly is it legal to distribute anything to someone else's channels when you're not their distributor... and then refuse to stop?

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Wow. thanks for letting me know. I'll be looking more into DistroKid soon so stay tuned! Make sure you are getting the newsletter. topmusicattorney.com/newsletter/

[@mikal]

@@TopMusicAttorney No problem.

[@iamgkay57]

Same problem here

[@DJExclusive-e2y]

They need to show the evidence of how a artist doing it in a Court of law?????

[@mostlyspace3175]

What’s the distributor you ended up using? Preem Digital? Couldn’t make out what you said. Thanks!

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Priam Digital 💪

[@seanryne]

Thanks for asking I had trouble understanding as well.

[@EsSimouPROD]

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[@KevinTheCardigan]

1:20 The distributor would not need to return any money to the DSPs or advertiser because the distributor would already discount say the price of the advertisement by the expected percentage of fake/botted streams. I.E. Spotify knows 5% of its streams are bots, so it charges advertisers 95% of the actual cost to account for the 'missing' 5%,. How this discount is applied will vary, but if someone pays for 100k people to view an advertisement, Spotify can reasonably expect 95% to be real views, so they give out 105,264 impressions of which 95% will amount to 100k real views. To micromanage the distribution of botted/fake plays seems way too dense of a task to even be financially feasible. I think advertisers are happy with the assumed percentage

[@TopMusicAttorney]

I also believe that if a DSP suspects bot plays, they will withhold the royalties. I'm perfectly fine with there being mechanisms in place to prevent fake streams, but a part of the problem is that no one is proving the streams are fake. Just simply saying it and then withholding artists' money.

[@erickurd6976]

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[@TopMusicAttorney]

Thanks for watching.

[@KillaSpider]

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[@TopMusicAttorney]

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[@ttteclassic2994]

Hi, I've never heard of the distribution service you said you use (and so I don't know how to spell it/what to search for); could you please respond to this comment with the name of it? Just found your channel. I'm hoping to release my first cover single before the end of July, and I appreciate all of this information!! Thanks from the son of a personal injury attorney!! :)

[@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx]

DISTROKID FLAGGED MY MUSIC WHICH ISNT EVEN ON THE THEIR PLATFORM HOW.

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Wow. What reason were you givenwhat reason were you given?

[@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx]

@@TopMusicAttorney fake streams apparently which is false. I move my catalogue off there way before . n stopped paying them . So they do this out of spite lol

[@mauriluciano6140]

A Classical Distrokid. I have same Problems with Distrokid. I have some artists on Distrokid and because of 1 Artist facebook removed the songs Distrokid say i can not anymore upload music on facebook and thats for all artist. What a joke.

[@jeygam1s766]

@@mauriluciano6140 where to go now?

[@LUMINAmusiic]

can you recommend priam digital?

[@EsSimouPROD]

Big no!! They're fraud and scam.

[@marlon-xg6nq]

Is it possible to file a lawsuit against distrokid for not paying their Artist's?

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Tell me more about your situation

[@VultureUk-Rich]

I had distro kid send me an email saying i owed them £22 for a subscription ive never even opted for a subscription so i've cancelled my account

[@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx]

Bro don’t pay they ass

[@VultureUk-Rich]

@@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx 💯

[@TopMusicAttorney]

That doesn't sound right at all? Which distributor are you currently with?

[@VultureUk-Rich]

Not with any just refreshing a brand and learning new stuff @@TopMusicAttorney

[@AllAroundHnadyMan]

As part of my content creation, I want to create videos that primarily feature music paired with my images. These videos are intended to provide a music listening experience to my audience, where the visual elements serve to enhance the musical atmosphere without overshadowing the music itself. Does DISTROKID offer a service allowing me to use your music and my images to post on KZbin? I aim to monetize these videos on my KZbin channel, which is not affiliated with any major corporation.

[@NicBam]

1:39. I think so. Haha.

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Thanks for watching

[@lv8r13]

does TikTok pay PROs?

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Not that I am aware of. The labels and publishers have separate agreements with TikTok and other social media platforms to collect royalties. But if you saw recently, universals license with TikTok expired, so as of now the music owns by universal is not allowed to be on TikTok platform, and if it is, proper payments are not going out to universal. Are you an artist or producer?

[@lv8r13]

both, I do my own publishing and a few of my friends in the industry have asked me to help them with theirs as well. always down to learn more, love your videos forreal@@TopMusicAttorney

[@mont-doggBeats]

Warner bros records just Bid to buy Tunecore smh

[@TopMusicAttorney]

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[@TopMusicAttorney]

Stay tuned

[@mont-doggBeats]

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[@robperry5293]

Blah, blah, blah... Time to pull the trigger! you tried to negotiate. got nowhere all that is left is to say I tried and give up, or you can file a lawsuit. Put your 200k law degree to work, take them to court. You may not make much if any money off your lawsuit unless you can get punitive damages but if you win you may get some big dollar clients in the future, also after they are served you may hear from them that they want to talk again and will take you seriously now.

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Stay tuned.... Update about to drop....

[@robperry5293]

I can be rather blunt, but it goes both ways, I will be the first to say nice job also. Fire your shots then reload if needed. Take it personal make them rue the day they dismissed you.@@TopMusicAttorney

[@robperry5293]

I can be rather blunt, but it goes both ways, I will be the first to say nice job also... Fire your shots then reload if needed. Take it personal. Make them rue the day they dismissed you! Channel your inner Pitbull, being able to say "I took on TuneCore and won" would be a very nice feather in your hat, which I am sure you would look great wearing.@@TopMusicAttorney

[@Snhojbar]

Love your channel, love your content and advice, really appreciate it. Would you mind stopping that weird random cuts in and out of the same shot thing on your videos. It's super distracting and makes it hard to focus on what you are saying. You will never see that on a professionally edited show. Nobody cuts to a closer closeup of the same close, It's just not professional. Try slow pan ins or cut away to an insert before re-framing your close up. It will look 100 times more professional. Everything else about your videos is super professional. If you stopped the (maybe auto randomly generated) close up cutting, your videos would be as professional as your content. What's that you say? Other KZbinrs do it. Yes they do and it looks equally bad and amateurish on their videos too.

[@TopMusicAttorney]

Glad you enjoy the content. I'm sorry you don't care for the editing style. Hopefully you were still able to get value. 💪