Tiny House Curriculum
The Knowledge Hub
Welcome to the Tiny House Music Knowledge Hub.
This platform is designed to help music creators understand their rights, revenue streams, and the systems that power the music industry.
Whether you are an independent artist, songwriter, or producer, this hub provides essential knowledge on publishing, master rights, royalties, and contracts.
I. Foundations
Core concepts: copyrights, ownership, licensing, and metadata.
ExploreII. Publishing Rights
Publishing societies, revenue streams, blanket licensing, and publisher roles.
ExploreIII. Master Rights
Recording rights, distribution, neighboring rights, master-use licensing, metadata guidelines, and YouTube requirements.
ExploreIV. Usage & Royalties
How different music uses create royalties across platforms, radio, film, live, and public spaces.
ExploreV. Business & Contracts
Split sheets, contract types, sync agreements, and industry gaps.
ExploreTiny Crosswords Puzzle
Test your knowledge of music rights and royalties.
Tiny Cheat-Sheet & Summary: Rights & Royalties
A comprehensive visual breakdown of the copyrights and subsequent rights and royalties that exist in the music business and where royalties come from.
Mechanical
The right to copy and reproduce the composition in a sound recording.
Public Performance
The right to publicly perform the composition, including radio and venue use.
Synchronization
The right to synchronize the composition with moving image.
Master Use
The right to use the recording in derivative audio or audio-visual products.
Distribution
The effective right to sell and monetize the sound recording across physical and digital stores.
Neighboring Rights
The right to publicly broadcast or communicate the sound recording.
Blanket licenses allow radio stations, venues, festivals, cafes, streaming services, and other music users to legally use large catalogs without requesting permission for each individual song. PROs, MROs, CMOs, and phonographic societies administer these licenses by territory and distribute royalties based on reported usage.