Copyright issues and more

See, Your master need to get those royalties through this ISRC code and your music aggregators, but then don’t forget about the publishing (Composition part)

https://www.ifpi.org/ there should be a list of country that represent this organization for ISRC, try looking for yours. You shouldn’t worry too much having an ISRC generated by you aggregators, but the main problem is the fact that if they go bankrupt, you will get a lot of hassle proving yourself to be the right holder of this recording (productor) Try your country with this key world on google: Society of authors (for the authorship that should be the correct word)

Don’t try to copy paste my word by the way, I really depends on your country language, sometimes french are using a very specific terminology for a specific right, that doesn’t translate well in English, you should call one of your country music rights associations ! They are nice and should answer most of your answers

there is also a third one which is about neighbor rights, so the recorded piece and the way each artist/musician interpret and play the music together in such recorded material: http://www.swissperform.ch/nc/en/mobile/home.html

For example in Switzerland: For the music rights: https://www.suisa.ch/ (which is not about the recorded music, only the creative part) For the licensing or the recorded piece material protection and identification: https://www.ifpi.org/

So I think there is multiple way to protect your music, depending on your country or the continent. For example in Europe we have intellectual property implemented directly in music writer and composers, such that even if you are not part of a music rights associations, you can prove yourself the paternity of the works. Then if you really want to protect your rights (not the licensing but the actual sheets you wrote or the notes you play) you should be part is such associations, they can protect you, give you lawyers or law advices, and search if there is any breach in their systems or publicly on radio, tv and so on. Then finally, the recording part, which is the easiest to trace, can be protected through ISRC, which is like a code that is embedded in your music file that will trace every time the file is played and on which platforms (radio, tv and streaming). ISRC is only for producers, meaning that you at least contributed more that 50% of the recordings (the master we can say). There is no strict rule about this, it is more about who will get the royalties, then he has the right obligation to split it accordingly to the contract in place. Honestly, if you ever have someone putting your music through music platforms, I only see 3 possibilities: Someone you know stole it from your hard drive and published it as his… The recording studio or mixing engineer published it, lawfully without any contract as your record label or publisher Someone randomly hacked your files before release, and now is using a ISRC over your master and you need to go through lawsuit. There is the fourth possibility, but not so common, that someone bought your music and post it on streaming platforms, which again is really well protected, so that wouldn’t be a problem to actually ask the platforms to remove it, within 24h this can be done and you can ask for a lawsuit with your music rights associations if there is any losses. I hope it helps, I am based in Switzerland in Europe so perhaps America is different, but I hope it helps you a bit. I didn’t dig in the way music rights are split, but there is common terminology you need to look up for more details, and look at the ISRC website from your country to buy them. If that was your question, I hope you will get better insights! Liam