For music labels we generate extra income by setting up their music publishing company and claiming royalties with the worldwide music collection societies. A great way to refinance marketing spend invested into the releases. By publishing their labels releases a label does furthermore have full control about all further licensing aspects (e.g. the synch market) and all creative uses of their music.
Global Collection Society income for musical works in 2018:
9
Billion EUR
Problem
- OFTEN LABELS FORGET TO ASK FOR PUBLISHING RIGHTS DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS
- OTHERS EARN MONEY THAT THE LABEL COULD INVEST INTO MARKETING & PROMOTION
- FURTHERMORE, THE OWNERSHIP BETWEEN MASTER AND PUBLISHING IS DIVIDED MAKING IT HARDER TO LICENSE RIGHTS AS A ONE STOP SHOP
SOLUTION
ROBA, Music Publishing offers to labels a tailor made and worldwide accessible concept how they can become their own music publishers and own all rights associated with their music. For every published release they receive the music publishing income from the international collection societies.
The Set-up of a music publishing entity with ROBA is free. All legal and publishing related communication with the labels artists/composers is done by ROBA.
MUSIC MONITORING
A majority of music used on TV and the web goes unreported! Our audio recognition technology will scan TV channels and websites around the globe to discover where your music is being played. Our technology then creates a deviation report against historical reporting data from collection societies. Our income tracking department also tracks down discrepancies between sold tracks (physical or on platforms) and the number of accounted tracks by the local collection societies. We also control the concert & tour licensing of local societies.
CLIENT PORTAL
With ROBA, you have access to all your data, at any time. Our industry-leading ROBA Portal provides full transparency with real-time updates, powerful reporting, and user-friendly analysis tools that make it easy to review and understand the complex world of publishing royalties.
ROBA E-SIGN
We know that a lot of our authors and licensing partners are not always at their desk to sign paper documents. With ROBA’s E-Sign solution, you can go from signing to delivering the contract in a matter of seconds. Never bother with printing, faxing or filing papers again.
DIRECT
MEMBERSHIP
At ROBA we combine the best of both music-publishing worlds. Whenenver possible, we become direct members of local societies or platforms like YouTube and Spotify in various territories to speed up the process of delivering your earnings. As music publishing experts, we know that this is not possible in every region of the world. This might be due to legal regulation or a very fragmented local market. This why we have created the ROBA HYBRID MODEL, allowing us to deliver more income to our clients, faster. It is often resulting in 20–30% higher revenues for our writers and publishing partners.
EASY SET-UP
- EASY SET-UP: SIGNING OF A SHORT CONTRACT THAT ALLOWS ROBA TO DO ALL ADMINISTRATIVE WORK AND REQUEST A MUSIC PUBLISHING ENTITY NUMBER AT THE WORLDWIDE COLLECTION SOCIETIES
- LABELS ONLY HAVE TO AD ONE SHORT AND SIMPLE PUBLISHING CLAUSE TO THEIR CONTRACT
- THE SET-UP OF A PUBLISHING ENTITY IS FREE- OUR PARTICIPATION IS FAIR AS WE ONLY EARN WHEN THE LABEL EARNS PUBLISHING INCOME.
DO YOU WANT TO SET-UP YOU OWN MUSIC PUBLISHING ENTITY AND RECEIVE MUSIC PUBLISHING INCOME PLEASE CONTACT US