FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Massive Music is a music publisher. Founded in 2006, Massive Music is home for more than 1,700 Indonesian composers and more than 17,000 songs.

As the Leading Music Publisher in Indonesia with the largest market share for local catalogue, Massive Music is Home for Songwriter and Heaven for Song User.

As a progressive music publisher, Massive Music have 5 major responsibilities:

• Administrative Tasks
• Technical Tasks
• Financial Tasks
• Legal and Business Affairs
• Creative and Commercial Tasks

Administrative Tasks includes:

Song catalog management: Maintaining accurate records of compositions, authors, and ownership.

Licensing administration: Issuing and managing licenses for various uses (e.g., mechanical, sync).

Royalty tracking and distribution: Monitoring and distributing royalties to rights holders.

Financial Tasks includes:

Royalty collection: Gathering royalties from various sources (e.g., DSP, mechanical rights agencies).

Accounting and auditing: Ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance.

Payment processing: Distributing royalties and other payments to rights holders.

Tax compliance: Managing tax obligations related to music publishing income.

Technical Tasks includes:

Metadata management: Ensuring accurate composition metadata (e.g., title, author, genre).

Digital distribution: Delivering compositions to digital platforms (e.g., streaming services).

Rights management: Utilizing technologies (e.g., DRM) to protect compositions.

Data analysis: Analyzing market trends, royalty data, and other metrics to inform publishing decisions.

Legal and Business Affairs includes:

Contract negotiation: Drafting and negotiating publishing agreements, licenses, and other contracts.

Copyright infringement monitoring: Protecting compositions from unauthorized use.

Dispute resolution: Addressing conflicts related to publishing rights or royalties.

Industry relationship management: Maintaining connections with other publishers, industry organizations, and stakeholders.

Creative and Commercial Tasks includes:

Song pitching: Promoting compositions to artists, producers, and other industry professionals.

A&R (Artists and Repertoire): Finding and signing new talent, developing relationships with artists.

Marketing and promotion: Publicizing compositions through various channels.

Negotiating agreements: Securing favorable deals with recording artists, producers, and other industry parties.

Massive Music does not charge any fees for songs registered by songwriters. We only earn a percentage from the songs we monetize, whether from mechanical rights, synchronization, or other sources.

A percentage of each revenue will be split 70% for the songwriter and 30% for Massive Music.

First, make sure you are the legitimate songwriter of the work you want to register. Second, the song you’re registering must not already be registered with any other music publisher

You don’t have to wait until your songs are released on digital streaming services to register them with Massive Music. Any song you’ve written, even if it hasn’t been released yet, can be registered with Massive Music as your music publisher.

But if you’re aiming to earn mechanical royalties, make sure the songs you register are ones you plan to release eventually!

Nope, it’s super easy! Massive Music’s licensing team is here to help you with whatever you need. They’ll make the process quick, simple, and hassle-free.

Using a song for a brand, artist, or other projects can add value. If using the song brings you benefits or profit, the cost of licensing is no longer an issue, as it creates value for both the song owner and the user.

In music publishing, there are a few types of licenses that allow songs to be used in various ways. Here are some of them:

1. Mechanical License
2. Synchronization License
3. Grand Rights
4. Public Performance License
5. Print license

Mechanical License: required to obtain the mechanical rights to reproduce and distribute a musical work in a physical or digital format, such as CDs, vinyl, digital downloads, and interactive streaming. It's also needed to create and distribute cover versions of existing musical works.

Synchronization License: also referred to as a sync license, it's required to use a musical work with visual media in a so-called audiovisual work, such as movies, videos, TV shows, commercials, video games, or websites. A sync license can include either or both the synchronization rights for the use of the musical work and the master rights for the use of the sound recording if a pre-existing sound recording is being used.

Grand rights are the right to agree or object to the use of a musical work in a dramatic performance such as operas, ballets, or musicals.

When song user want to use the musical works in a dramatic performance, they must obtain a theatrical license. Theatrical licenses are the contracts authorizing the use of a musical work for such a dramatic performance, with or without adaptation, which can be granted by the songwriters, their music publishers, or a CMO.

Public Performance License: required to publicly perform musical works and sound recordings in a live or recorded manner. It implicates performing rights. This applies, for example, when a musical work is played live in a concert, or a sound recording is streamed online, broadcast on radio or TV, or played in bars and restaurants.

Print license: required to produce sheet music or lyrics of a musical work in physical and digital formats. It includes the rights of reproduction and distribution and may involve additional rights. This applies, for example, when the sheet music or lyrics are sold both in paper copy and digitally. Print licenses may also be required for the uses of musical notation of composition and lyrics in other formats, for example, published in a book or printed on merchandise like posters and t-shirts.