What is the opt-in process? What is the opt-out process? What's your mailing address for DMCA takedowns?
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How are artists and/or rights holders paid when digital goods are sold? What of artists who prefer fiat instead of crypto? Which currencies/coins are eligible for payouts? What’s the timestamp of exchange rates – transaction date or payout date?
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Which payment methods, processors, and tumblers are supported? Who covers transaction fees? What’s the payout schedule? Is there a threshold? What taxation guidelines and deductions apply? What percentage of sales do you take? How is it calculated?
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How are artists and/or rights holders identified? How are you accounting for fractional ownership/collection/representation? How are you resolving ownership conflicts, rounding errors, and disputes? Where can we submit cue sheets, CWR feeds, DDEX feeds, and other metadata?
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Do you allow estates, administrators, and other representatives to collect royalties on artists’ behalf? Are there exclusive/reserved entities allotted to collect fractional royalties? If so, how is that structured?
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For sound recordings or musical works in the public domain, which territory(ies) do you use to determine PD status – is it based on the server location of minting, your business location, the minter location, or buyer location? Can you add a label for public domain works?
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How are mechanical royalties paid to composers, songwriters, music publishers, administrators, and other rights holders? Are you adhering to the copyright laws of the creator, owner, publisher, minter, or buyer?
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What laws apply for fractional ownership? How are you accounting for intellectual property use/sales/export/import taxes?
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How do you process ISRC collisions? How are you matching ISRC to ISWC matrices? What collision tables and flows are used? What QA is there for unallocated/unmatched works? For musical compositions, which % are you allocating to the black box, per territory?
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Are you licensed with HFA, MRI, or another matching provider? Speaking of – which PROs, MRO, CMOs do you currently have licenses with? How are reproduction and performance royalties submitted to territorial rights holders, co-publishers, sub-publishers, and other administrators?
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How do rightsholders of album/track artwork get compensated? What display/reproduction copyrights does Spotify grant you via the API feed? How are royalties structured, and artists compensated for these usages? How are copyright holders for these works identified?

Feb 2, 2022 · 7:55 PM UTC

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How come your site isn’t on the DMCA registry?
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Please let us know; we’re very curious on how we will be paid for the (as of now) unlicensed, unsanctioned, and unauthorized reproduction of several thousands of our copyrights. legal@materiamusic.com
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