Royalties
Neighboring Rights
Neighboring rights are royalties paid to performers and the recording owner when a sound recording is publicly performed: the recording-side counterpart to songwriter performance royalties.
Where this sits
Neighboring Rights
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
When a recording is broadcast or publicly performed, most countries pay a 'neighboring' right to the performers and the master owner, separate from, and 'neighboring' to, the songwriter's performance royalty on the composition. It's the recording side's version of public-performance money.
Good to know
Neighboring Rights: common questions
- How are neighboring rights different from performance royalties?
- Performance royalties are paid to the songwriter and publisher for the composition; neighboring rights are paid to the performer and master owner for the recording. Different owners, different collectors.
- Who collects neighboring rights in the US?
- SoundExchange, for non-interactive digital uses. There is no US neighboring right for terrestrial radio.
- Digital Performance RoyaltiesRoyalties
- SoundExchangeOrganizations & Societies
- Recording RoyaltiesRoyalties
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