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Hi,

recently I was asked to sell the buyouts of a soundtrack of mine for a commercial of a big company. Since it would be my first big project and since I'm also a musician and label owner, I'm starting to ask myself if it would be worth to finally register my works on the rights society of my country and take rights seriously.

I understand that this particular company would own the performance rights of the soundtrack but it's not so clear to me the work a rights society does... I guess they collect only the performance royalties. If that's right, it means that it wouldn't be worth the trouble then, because I would get nothing back.

On the other side, I would like to ask if you know what happens with author rights and how do royalties work on these. Is there also a society that collects those royalties somehow? How is the share working in that case?

I would like to thank you all in advance and will be glad to read and share your knowledge about it.

I was digging a little more on the subject and have found that publishers are meant to take care for mechanical rights, but I'm still not a hundred per cent sure that I didn't get anything wrong. As I understand, labels and PRO's are meant to take care of performance and selling royalties, while publishers take care for mechanical royalties and also pitching. Is that right? Any ideas?

Thanks.