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Capturing Ownership, Splits, & Metadata Before Song Royalties Can Go Uncollected
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Happy Thursday! My guest for this new episode is George Macias, co-founder of Lumoza, a free music rights-registration platform for independent artists, where you upload your song, and it’s registered where it needs to be so you actually get paid. Lumoza creates a Digital Birth Certificate for every song, which is a permanent record of who created it and when, and that helps take care of registering your work with the organizations that pay out royalties. George and I talk about patterns he repeatedly saw on the publisher side that made him think independent artists needed some help, the misunderstanding among indie artists that they register with a distributor and think they’re done, his one recommendation for the thing artists should build into their recording session process, regardless of what tool they use, where AI music sits all of this, and more. 🎧 Where to listen (plus show notes and related links) Want the implementation-depth resources?Liner Notes Insider goes deeper than a podcast episode can. Recent editions have covered things like royalty recovery tool kits, building owned audience infrastructure, physical products as a core revenue channel , and the business framework of house concerts — the implementation layer beneath the episodes. My free edition includes highlights from this and 300+ conversations.
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