Spotify vs Exclusive

[lazywallofficial]

Hello everyone,
I'm new member. I have a question, sorry if it has been answered before but i tried to look for it and couldnt find it
when a listing says "This Publisher offers an EXCLUSIVE deal, so please make sure the Songs you submit aren’t already signed to other libraries or catalogs", does that includes spotify or youtube?
thanks in advance

[MBantle]

Hello everyone,
I'm new member. I have a question, sorry if it has been answered before but i tried to look for it and couldnt find it
when a listing says "This Publisher offers an EXCLUSIVE deal, so please make sure the Songs you submit aren’t already signed to other libraries or catalogs", does that includes spotify or youtube?
thanks in advance

This is something I am also trying to get my head around at the moment. Some publishing contracts allow for self-promotion on Itunes and Spotify but it would be great if one of the more experienced members could share their views. I put a few tracks on Spotify the other day (with my publisher's approval). Some publishers will ask you to re-ritle the tracks for self-promotion which seems rather counter-intuitive to me.
Cheers,
Matt

[Casey H]

Many exclusive libraries are fine with you selling your music-- downloads, streams, etc. as long as it's unrelated to sync-to-video. In other words, their exclusivity is with respect to Film/TV. However, this varies from library to library/contract to contract. It is not always the case. So simply ask the library. I wouldn't NOT submit to exclusive listings. If you get contacted, ask. Be upfront about where your tunes are.

BTW, 2 very friendly Taxi exclusive libraries allow me to put the tracks on Spotify, etc.

Best of luck!
Casey

[MBantle]

Many exclusive libraries are fine with you selling your music-- downloads, streams, etc. as long as it's unrelated to sync-to-video. In other words, their exclusivity is with respect to Film/TV. However, this varies from library to library/contract to contract. It is not always the case. So simply ask the library. I wouldn't NOT submit to exclusive listings. If you get contacted, ask. Be upfront about where your tunes are.

BTW, 2 very friendly Taxi exclusive libraries allow me to put the tracks on Spotify, etc.

Best of luck!
Casey

Hi Casey!
This is very helpful. Did these exclusive libraries ask you to retitle the tracks for Spotify?
Cheers,
Matt

[Casey H]

No retitling for streaming distribution. Just want to reiterate that it varies widely from library to library.

Taxi may have been following this or had calls with the question. A listing just came out for an exclusive library that includes:

IMPORTANT NOTE: This Company ONLY wants new Songs that have never been signed or distributed by anyone else. This also includes publishing/licensing agreements with CD Baby, TuneCore, DistroKid, etc.

Best
Casey

[lazywallofficial]

thank you very much

[RobertElse]

I believe one crucial factor is whether you click the much-discussed "monetize my music" (or similar wording) checkbox when you sign up with Spotify (for example), which has the effect of making Spotify (or whomever) the publisher, which would conflict with your library's publishing rights.

I have seen many posts about this and it has been discussed on Taxi TV - Michael Laskow mentions it in practically every episode related to libraries and publishing.

Bottom line: don't check the box, and read the fine print.

Robert

[tastebudjohnny]

In this discussion are we talking about the recorded performance or performances or THE song itself (original composition)?