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Why Music Libraries Only Want Industry Savvy Composers On This Week’s TAXI TV

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 3:37 pm
by TAXIstaff
Do you get ticked-off when you see something like this in some of TAXI’s Industry Listings?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This Company offers an Exclusive deal, and has a strong preference for signing material from songwriters who have worked for libraries and licensing companies in the past and understand how standard deals work. If you don't have that experience and you don't know the drill on typical deals, they politely ask that you don't submit to this request.

Or this...

IMPORTANT NOTE: This Library offers an Exclusive deal, and has a strong preference for signing material from songwriters who have worked for libraries and licensing companies in the past and understand how standard deals work.

Or this...

IMPORTANT NOTE: This company has specifically asked that you only send unreleased Songs that aren't already commercially available. If you've already released them on Spotify, Apple Music, etc., or if they’re already published or administered by CD Baby Pro, TuneCore, etc., please do not submit them.

Don’t Miss This Episode!
We’re going to discuss this issue at length on this week’s episode of TAXI TV to help you better understand why some of our clients ask us to include this language in the searches we run for them. This is a really important topic, and we hope you can join us for the live episode at NOON, Pacific Time on Monday. If you can’t join us for the live broadcast, please make every effort to watch the archived version on YouTube sooner than later!

Watch Live at 12 PM Pacific Time on Monday here: https://youtu.be/Q-eeDjjPGtQ