Royalties
Print Royalties
Print royalties are paid when a composition is reproduced as sheet music or when its lyrics are printed or displayed.
Where this sits
Print Royalties
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
The print right is the oldest music royalty: payment for reproducing the composition in printed form, such as sheet music or songbooks. Today it also covers lyric display on platforms like Musixmatch and LyricFind.
Good to know
Print Royalties: common questions
- Are lyric sites a print royalty?
- Yes. Displaying a song's lyrics is a use of the composition that's licensed and pays the songwriter and publisher, in the same family as traditional print/sheet-music royalties.