If you're publishing or distributing your music, you need good metadata in order to get credited, discovered, and paid properly. Accurate metadata is also very valuable when it comes to copyright protection. Anything from your song title, to artist and featuring artist names, PRO affiliation, file format, and so much more - it's all metadata, and it all matters. Among the most important identifiers are the ISWC and ISRC numbers for a song as well as IPI numbers to identify cr

There are two different music copyrights. A musical work copyright protects a song’s composition (lyrics, melody, arrangement), and a sound recording copyright (aka the master) protects the actual recording of a song. Copyright exists as soon as an original work of authorship is fixed in a tangible medium. The creator of a work is known as an Author.