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Neighboring Rights Guidance
Guidance on neighboring rights income that ensures your label claims what its recordings earn.
Neighboring rights — the income recordings earn when performed publicly, particularly outside the United States — are among the most commonly unclaimed revenue in independent music. This service explains how neighboring rights work, where your recordings may already be generating them, and what registration and documentation your label needs to collect its share through the appropriate societies and administrators.
We review your catalog’s eligibility, the territories and uses that generate neighboring rights income, featured and non-featured performer considerations, and the registration data societies require. Where gaps exist — unregistered titles, incomplete performer information, missing documentation — we provide a correction plan your team can execute or we can coordinate.
The guidance is provided personally by Ruben Burgos, Architect & Founder of UMG Network Collective, who walks your team through the landscape and the action plan himself. His direct involvement means the explanation is tailored to your catalog’s actual footprint rather than a generic overview of a complex subject.
The Objective
To ensure your label understands, registers for, and collects the neighboring rights income its recordings generate worldwide. The goal is recovering a revenue stream many independents unknowingly leave on the table.
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