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How to use the site
getting started on Bemuso.com

Bemuso is all about the music business for DIY artists and independents. Here’s a quick start for beginners and some tips for finding your way around the site.

Quick start

Record labels and music publishers
Music business diagram of record label and music publisher licenses, collecting societies and royaltiesThis page describes
• what record labels do
• what music publishers do
• major labels and indies
Music copyright explained
Music business graphic of the C and P copyright symbolsThis page describes
• the law behind copyright
• the different copyrights
• what can be copyrighted
• how music copyright works
• copyleft and public domain
CD mail order and cost breakdown
CD mail order breakdown pie chartThese pages describe
• costing CD releases
• costing downloads
• making CDs and releases
• a basic guide to CDs
DIY start-up checklist
Music business diagram showing the main steps in setting up your own label and selling recordsThis page describes
• setting up a record label
• preparing for business
• running your online label
• ways to sell your CDs
• ways to take payment
Royalties and licenses for music
Music business diagram showing the main UK retail, licensing, royalty collection societies and distribution transactions for labels, publishers and artistsThis page describes
• how musicians get royalties
• how writers get royalties
• an example of music royalties
• music royalty terminology
• the different music licenses
Royalty collection societies
Music business diagram of worldwide royalty collection between different countries: writers, performers, artists, labels, publishers, mechanicals, performing and neighbouring rightsThis page describes:
• the main collection societies
• mechanicals and performing rights
• phonographic (recording) rights
• joining a collection society
• collection societies abroad

The music business is very complicated. Don’t be surprised if you can’t digest it all in one go. It took me years to understand all this and I’m still learning.

Finding stuff

There is a vast amount of information on this site and several ways to find your way round it.

Lists and indexes

Searching

Google
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Menus and pages

The whole site is organised under the menus shown at the top of every page (and the bottom of most).

Most pages also have these three navigation aids at the bottom.

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go to the main menu for this pagejump to the relevant menu
go to the home pagejump to the home page

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