Auddly launches #MetadataPays awareness campaign
#MetadataPays to increase music creators’ awareness of how they can help ensure correct payments for the use of their works
Song data hub Auddly launches metadata awareness campaign #MetadataPays to increase music creators’ awareness of how they can help ensure correct payments for the use of their works.
Unmatched, missing and incomplete metadata can mean that music creators are missing out on royalties that are rightfully theirs. Songwriters play a key role in ensuring their personal data is accurate and provided to the right people at the right time, so that they can receive royalties from societies like PRS for Music. Auddly aims to create awareness about how music creators can look after their interests and data right from the start of the creative process with new campaign #MetadataPays.
Everyone in the metadata chain is responsible for getting this right, but the process always starts with the music creators – they are the source of all data and therefore in a key position. With #MetadataPays we want to empower creators to ensure they get paid correctly by managing their data smartly and efficiently. Auddly and the collecting societies are here to support this process.
Today we spend an inordinate amount of time correcting errors and resolving disputes which hold up payments to music creators. To prevent this, PRS for Music has been working with partners to develop gold standard authoritative copyright data across the industry and music creators play an important role in helping to achieve this. Generating awareness through #MetadataPays is a great way to help address these data challenges and improving knowledge amongst creators will ultimately enable the release of greater value for rightsholders in the long run.
The objective of #MetadataPays, is to educate creators on how to help ensure they get paid correctly when their music is used, regardless of what stage they are in their career or whether or not they are signed to a publisher. The campaign page auddly.com/metadatapays provides three easy steps for creators to manage their metadata smartly and efficiently.
How to ensure correct payments:
- Make sure you know your IPI*. Your IPI is your personal identification number as a songwriter. You can find it on your royalty statement your receive from your collecting society. *aka CAE/Membership no.
- Collect your metadata in Auddly. As you start writing, you can log your song’s metadata – IPI, title and royalty split – into Auddly’s song data hub. This means all essential information is held in one place, in sync with your fellow collaborators.
- Register on time. As soon as your song is finished and ready to be performed or released, use the metadata in Auddly to register the song with your collecting society. If you have a publisher and/or a manager, please check with them first.
About PRS for Music
Here for music since 1914, PRS for Music is a world-leading music collective management organisation representing the rights of more than 175,000 talented songwriters, composers and music publishers. Redefining the global standard for music royalties, PRS for Music ensures songwriters and composers are paid whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public.
For 110 years it has grown and protected the rights of the music creator community, paying out royalties with more accuracy, transparency and speed. In 2023, PRS for Music paid out £943.6m in royalties and collected a record £1.08 billion in revenues. prsformusic.com
