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Suno has started publishing production lessons, beginning with compression, for users of Studio, its browser DAW. The lessons are good. The catch is that Studio is Premier-only and won't load VST or AU plugins, so the skills are taught inside a closed toolchain.
Industryvia Suno
Pulling a drum break or an acapella out of a finished record with a stem splitter doesn't turn it into a new sound. It is still a copy of someone else's recording and song, so in most cases it needs two licences, one for the master and one for the composition.
Artist rightsvia US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (via UC Berkeley School of Law)
Producers, mixers and engineers only get US digital radio royalties from SoundExchange if the featured artist signs a Letter of Direction, or, for recordings made before November 1995, through a narrow 2% fallback in the statute. Here is how both routes work, with the numbers, and what to put in your producer agreement so you never have to chase it.
Industryvia Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
Four codes identify your recording, your song, you as a writer and your release. Royalties go missing when they don't line up with each other, usually because the splits disagree or nobody linked the recording to the song. Here is what each code does, who issues it, and a release-day checklist.
Industryvia International ISRC Agency (IFPI)
In the US, anyone can record and release a cover of a song that has already been released, without asking, as long as they get a mechanical licence and pay the writers the legal rate. Here is what that licence covers, what you must leave alone, why streaming and downloads are treated differently, and a pre-release checklist.
Artist rightsvia Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
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