Can you take your music off CD Baby?

You can cancel the distribution of any existing albums you are distributing through CD Baby by logging into your CD Baby Artist Account, clicking the “View/Edit” button next to your album title, and selecting the “Cancellation Options” link under the “Album Info” (or “Single Info”) heading.

Does CD Baby own my masters?

CD Baby clients always keep 100% of their copyrights. This is unlike many traditional publishing agreements, in which songwriters can be asked to give up some of their copyrights. By keeping 100% of your copyrights, you remain in full control of your songs.

Can I change my artist name on CD Baby?

We are not able to make changes to an artist name after a release is finalized. If you want to change your artist name, you must cancel the title and resubmit with a new fee and bar code.

How do I stop CD Baby?

Which is better CD Baby or DistroKid?

To terminate your Agreement, you must send a Termination Notice to notice@cdbaby.com and include in the subject line of your e-mail “Termination of Artist Agreement.”

Is CD Baby trustworthy?

While DistroKid is a great choice for artists who frequently release music and aren’t interested in any additional services, CD Baby is better for musicians with a slower song rollout. CD Baby charges per release, and most of the add-ons are included in the price of a release.

Can you release a song with the same name?

CD Baby started out as one of the world’s first digital platforms to sell physical albums from independent artists. Today, it’s one of the largest and most reputable digital music distributors around, and has grown rapidly past its humble origins in terms of services and reach.

Should I change my artist name?

No – you cannot copyright a song title, the closest thing that could be done is to ‘Trademark’ however even a trademark is only normally applied to ‘brands’ offering goods/services. Song titles are ‘normally’ to short/generic to be bound by copyright.

What is the difference between CD Baby and CD Baby Pro?

It’s totally okay for your music to change as you change, or even to just change for one album as you try new sounds, and then come back to your more widely-known aesthetic.

Do I need SoundExchange if I have CD Baby?

Is CD Baby better than TuneCore?

For an album, CD Baby Pro requires you to pay over twice the price of CD Baby Standard. CD Baby Pro also offers all these benefits but there are few added extras: you and your songs would be registered with popular collection societies (ASCAP, BMI, SOCAN).

Does CD Baby copyright your music?

SoundExchange and CD Baby

However, SoundExchange will not pay your Artist share of royalties to CD Baby. You must register directly with SoundExchange to receive Artist royalties. And, if you prefer to collect your rights owner royalties from us as well, you may be able to register directly with SoundExchange.

Does CD Baby collect royalties?

So CDBaby is better for smaller artists who have less than 100,000 streams per year. Where Tunecore is better is for artists who have over 150,000 streams per year. For example, if you do a million streams per year than you’re making $5000 per year. If you go with CDBaby, they’re taking $450 from your $5000!

What is CD Baby worth?

CD Baby does not handle copyright registration for our artists, this can only be done directly through the U.S. Copyright Office.

Should I copyright my music before putting it on YouTube?

CD Baby Pro Publishing Administration will. All mechanical royalties from streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music. These are generated from every single stream. All performance royalties from streaming services (like Spotify), radio, TV, live concert performances, and much more.

How can I legally use copyrighted music?

In March 2019, Disc Makers sold CD Baby (as part of the AVL Digital Group) to Downtown for $200 million.

Do I really need to copyright my songs?

So, if you’ve recorded your song in a video, it is already copyrighted. What you probably really want to know is whether you need to register your copyrighted work with your country’s Trademark Office before uploading it to YouTube, and the answer is no.

Does Ditto copyright your music?

2. Obtain a license or permission from the owner of the copyrighted content
  1. Determine if a copyrighted work requires permission.
  2. Identify the original owner of the content.
  3. Identify the rights needed.
  4. Contact the owner and negotiate payment.
  5. Get the permission agreement in writing.

How do I make sure no one steals my music?

To gain all of the protections of the copyright law, you need to copyright your music. In fact, music is automatically copyrighted the moment you create it in a tangible medium, like on paper or on audio recording. That’s right.

Can you copyright a song if you don’t own the beat?

Ditto Music doesn’t take any of your royalties and earnings.