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The Cue Room

Notes on production and library music, from the brief to the license

Licensing and rights

Sync and master rights, blanket licenses, one-stop clearance, cue sheets, performance royalties, metadata and the credits that decide who gets paid.

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A small local radio studio at dusk, an empty presenter's chair facing the mixing console, a microphone on its swivel arm and shelves of records behind it.

LI-003Licensing and rights

What Is a Blanket License, and How Is Its Fee Set?

A blanket license lets a station, a venue or a production use a whole repertoire for a term at one fee. Who grants it, what the agreement holds, and how the price is reached.

A broadcast cue sheet on a desk beside a printed track list, a pencil resting on the paper, late afternoon window light raking across the page, close crop on the title and composer columns.

LI-002Licensing and rights

What a Blanket License Leaves Outside Its Scope

A blanket license covers a use, not a credit. This entry lists what stays outside the agreement: moral rights, third-party samples, and the metadata that

A broadcast studio control room at night, a cue sheet on the console desk under a small lamp, faders and a clock in soft focus behind it.

LI-001Licensing and rights

Who Gets Paid When a Choir Is Broadcast

A broadcast of a choir performance triggers two rights and one cue sheet line. Here is how the composition side, the recording side, and an arrangement right