Unlock Music Rights & Registration. Unlock AI Music, #2

You finished the track. Now what?Most independent creators are leaving royalties on the table. Not because they did not work hard, but because nobody ever walked them through registering their music correctly. DistroKid gets you on Spotify. It does not register your compositions with a PRO. It does not register you with The MLC. It does not submit your recordings to SoundExchange. Those are four separate systems, four separate registrations, and four separate royalty streams, and most creators only ever set up one of them.
Without the others, every stream, every playlist placement, and every download is sending royalties into the void. Unlock Music Rights & Registration is the getting-paid phase of the workflow. It teaches you how the four royalty systems actually work, how to register in each one, and how to avoid the fifteen most expensive mistakes independent creators make. Inside, you will learn to: Understand the five royalty buckets in plain language: master-side streaming, songwriter performance, songwriter mechanical, sound recording digital performance, and neighboring rights.
Run the DistroKid upload flow correctly, field by field, including the Apple Music rejection traps that block half of first-time releases. Register with a PRO (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, or international equivalent), with full walkthroughs for US creators plus guidance for PRS, SOCAN, GEMA, APRA, JASRAC, and the major global PROs. Register with The MLC, the step most US creators skip entirely, and the one that collects your songwriter mechanicals from every streaming service.
Register with SoundExchange to collect the digital performance royalties on your sound recordings that nobody else is collecting for you. Handle AI disclosure correctly, including the current PRO joint policy, the Thaler decision, Apple Music Transparency Tags, and the DDEX disclosure standard. Run the full release workflow from mastered track to first payout, and avoid the fifteen expensive mistakes that each have a fix.
This is not legal advice. It is a registration workflow, built to make sure the money finds you. You made the music. Here is how to get paid for it.