The Musicians’ Union and Featured Artists Coalition have published new guidance for artists who are collaborating on recordings, to help those collaborators understand and agree what copyrights are being created, who is cut into those rights, and what royalties everyone can expect to receive.
The aim is to ensure that when guest vocalists and session musicians work with other artists on recording projects, everything is clearly set out in terms of rights and royalties.Traditionally a label would often be involved in organising such collaborations and recording sessions, and would usually take responsibility for defining everyone’s roles and rights, usually relying on the template session musician agreement negotiated between the MU and.
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