Rights

Say which right you mean.

A conflict tool and a neighboring-rights explanation. Filing a form stores a note for a person. It does not decide who owns a song and it does not move money.

When someone else claims the song

1
Name which right you mean
The master is the recording. The composition is the melody and lyrics. Neighboring rights are public-play money for the recording in some countries. They are three different piles.
2
Write the conflict in plain words
Who claimed the song, which store, and what you saw. Include the ISRC if you have it.
3
We store it for a person
Status is “received”. This screen cannot takedown a store, decide ownership, or release money a store is holding.
4
Your streams can sit in review
A store may hold royalties during a fight. The 98/2 deal describes released revenue, not money a store has frozen.

What happens next

After you save a conflict, status stays received until a person opens it. Keep the emails a store sent you. If you also have a YouTube claim, use the Content ID page.

YouTube Content ID conflicts

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Neighboring rights

Neighboring rights pay the recording when it is played in public in countries that collect them. They are not the Spotify line on your workstation, and they are not the writer's PRO check.

1
This is not a Spotify stream
Neighboring rights are collected when a recording is played in public — radio, some TV, and venues — in countries that pay them. In the US, SoundExchange is the usual home for certain digital performances.
2
A society needs a membership or a mandate
MYDistribution has not signed a collection contract for you. Joining a society is your signature, not a checkbox here.
3
The form asks for an introduction
Tell us the country and whether you are the performer, the master owner, or both. A person follows up only if a real partner path exists.
4
No money moves
Submitting pays you $0 and costs you $0. A society's commission, if you later sign with one, is their fee. It is not the 2% streaming share.

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Split worksheet

Writer and composer percentages divide the artist side after the 2% platform share. A release cannot be delivered until those percentages add to 100%. The $10 release credit is not part of this math, and the payout job still pays the account owner until each writer has a confirmed Stripe account.

Try a round number

Type a store report amount. You will see the 2% platform share, your 98%, and how collaborator percentages cut that 98%. Sign in to load writer and composer splits from your latest saved release. Otherwise the worksheet shows one undivided artist side.

Example store report (USD)This is a Remix Assist version90% stays on your side of the artist pool. 10% is the assist. Turn off if the split sheet already includes them.

Platform keeps 2%: $2.00
Artist side 98%: $98.00
Pool to split: $98.00

No writer or composer percentages were loaded. The whole artist side stays in one pile until those splits are saved in the release builder. Delivery checks that writer and composer shares add to 100%.