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Inside the Playbook: Jacob Paul on How Global Music Publishing Royalties Work
You can be “up” on Spotify and still collect $0 in publishing royalties.
That’s the quiet trap: publishing isn’t paid by default. Master recording money tends to flow through labels and distributors. But music publishing lives in the backend, song registrations, splits, metadata, and global royalty collection, and if you don’t proactively set it up across territories, the system won’t warn you. You’ll just stay unpaid.
In this clip, Jacob Paul breaks down why “I joined ASCAP/BMI” is a great first step but not the finish line. Performing rights organizations typically focus on performance…
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