Foreign Licenses
Foreign Licenses
The same licenses that we just discussed - mechanical, performance, synchronization and print - are also issued in foreign countries. Songwriters or their music publisher typically retain an agent located in each of the foreign countries where the song is exploited. These sub-publishers - as they are frequently called -collect royalties generated in their country, retain about 15-25% as their fee, and pass the remainder along to the songwriter or U.S. music publisher
The same licenses that we just discussed - mechanical, performance, synchronization and print - are also issued in foreign countries. Songwriters or their music publisher typically retain an agent located in each of the foreign countries where the song is exploited. These sub-publishers - as they are frequently called -collect royalties generated in their country, retain about 15-25% as their fee, and pass the remainder along to the songwriter or U.S. music publisher



