Protecting music copyrights is passion number one for Angela K Durden, Industry Disruptor and inventor of MyDigitalCatalog.com – an online platform we previously covered designed to help content creators/owners document their intellectual property and keep their music safe. What follows is the first part of our interview with Angela where she talks us through the importance of being thorough when protecting music copyrights.
Indiehitmaker.com: If I don’t like reading user agreements and other contracts but I can’t afford a lawyer to review them, how can I make sure I don’t get screwed?
Angela K. Durden: Couple of ways. One, get used to reading and get good at finding the loopholes…
IHM: But I don’t like to read…
AKD: Right. Well, you’ll have to pay someone. You might want to try a service like the RockandRollLibrarian.com, I believe they review documents and give you overviews. The price is quite cheap. Second, you can go here, here, here, and here, and —
IHM: But I don’t like to read…
AKD: Yeah, these are short and sweet, and some are videos I’ve put together explaining a bunch of things. And MDC has a YouTube Channel called MDCtv. Lots of videos there to explain concepts about the business.
IHM: What’s the importance of owning my own UPC and ISRC codes?
AKD: The company who has their UPC or ISRC code printed on or embedded in a product is the one that gets the money first. They then pay everybody else.
Owning your UPC and ISRC is a fundamental step in protecting music copyrights – it establishes you as the true owner of your music
– Angela K Durden Founder, mydigitalcatalog.com
If you have your own UPC and ISRC accounts then you can inform any distributors of those numbers and print on albums and so forth or embed into the metadata for recordings. (Get those UPC here and ISRC here if you live in the U.S.)
Durden is the go-to source for real information about anything that attacks the rights of content creators and how those attacks affect your ability to make money with your songs. She is the author of the popular and hard-hitting “Navigating the New Music Business as a DIY & Indie: Coming Clean with the Down and Dirty.”
More of our interview with Durden to come.
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