“There’s no reason why DIY artists can’t do this for themselves”: Melody Rights may have a simple solution for music royalties

For most musicians, the process of registering a song for royalties summons a bespoke blend of boredom and dread. There’s metadata to be sorted out, a host of different regional copyright bodies to consider, and a number of different royalties and rights to get your head around.

For Bobby Cole, founder and managing director of Melody Rights, the intricacies of music royalties are like bread and butter. With some two decades of experience writing stock music, and thousands of credits to his name, it’s a subject that, out of necessity, he’s had to learn an awful lot about. His expert opinion? The current system is confusing, complex, opaque, barely fit for purpose, and ripe for disruption…

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