User:HibiscusKazeneko/Rights society affiliation

Description

This relationship links rights societies to the artists and labels they represent.
Affiliation is a type of contract in which a rights society collects royalties on performance or reproduction of a work and pays a portion of those royalties back to the publishers of that work and the artists who composed it.

Link Phrases

• Artist is affiliated with Label
• Label has affiliate artist Artist
• Label is affiliated with Label
• Label has affiliate label Label

Attributes

• start date

This indicates the date from which the artist or label was affiliated with a rights society.

• end date

This indicates the date after which the artist or label was no longer affiliated.

Examples

• Debbie Gibson is affiliated with ASCAP
• ASCAP has affiliate artist Debbie Gibson
• Mijac Music is affiliated with BMI
• BMI has affiliate label Mijac Music

Guidelines

• An artist can only be affiliated with one rights society at a time. It may be tempting to add relationships for each society in which that artist's works are licensed, but do not do this. Check a works search engine like ACE (https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceClient/) or Repertoire (http://repertoire.bmi.com/) for the artist's affiliation and only relate that artist to the society you see listed.

• Rights societies only pay royalties to publishers. No other Label type is to be used for this relationship.

Notes

• In release liner notes you sometimes see rights societies' names listed alongside publishers. This does not mean that the societies published works themselves. The rights societies' names are there to state to which labels those societies pay royalties for performance of the listed song.