What is a Composition?

Created by Yusuf Kahya, Modified on Sun, 23 Jun at 7:57 PM by Yusuf Kahya

A Composition is a music asset type that represents the musical work embodied within a master recording (sound recording).

The copyright in the song encompasses the words and music and is owned by the songwriter and/or music publisher.

The copyright in the musical work itself is owned by the songwriter and/or the music publisher, who grant the record label a "mechanical" license to record and distribute the song as part of the record.

Each composition may be embedded within multiple sound recordings but each sound recording will only have one embedded composition asset.