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Local Radio,18 mins

Understanding Music Royalties

BBC Introducing - Essex & Cambridgeshire

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Ever wondered how musicians get paid from songs being played on Radio, TV and Streaming? Matt Plumb from BBC Introducing in Cambridgeshire and Essex, chats to Stuart Belsham a Writer Relationship Manager at PRS for Music. Stuart has over 30 years of experience in the industry and talks about the differences in royalty collection societies, how much you could get paid for plays on radio, tv and streaming, membership fee's and the importance of meta data when uploading details of written compositions to the PRS website.

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