My music is broadcast on television. Which royalties will I receive?

In any case, you are entitled to ‘performing rights’ royalties because your works are performed. How much? That depends on a number of parameters: 

 

1. the amount of royalties the broadcaster pays us;

2. the number of works over which we distribute this amount;

3. the number of points we attribute to your work:

  • credits or jingle: 1 point
  • light music: 3 points
  • serious music: 6.5 points
  • jazz: 5 points

4. the number of broadcasts;

5. the duration of your work;

6. whether your music is used in an audiovisual work and if so, which type (fiction, documentary film, advertisement,...);

7. whether it concerns foreground or background music;

8. whether your music is broadcast during the day or the evening;

9. whether your work is a production (on request) of the broadcaster.

 

If your work is a production of the broadcaster, you will not only receive performing rights royalties, but also mechanical royalties. 

The first two parameters of this list vary each year. That is why it is difficult for us to estimate in advance exactly how many royalties a broadcast will generate for you.