The first, and usually by far the largest, is the 'mechanical' royalty.

Consequently, a mechanical royalty arises each time a record company makes a copy of an album, cassette or compact disc.

From 2000 to 2002, he said, mechanical royalties fell 22 percent, while performance royalties kept growing, by 13.6 percent.

The United States treatment of mechanical royalties is in sharp contrast to international practice.

Additional third party administrators such as RightsFlow provide services to license, account and pay mechanical royalties and are growing.

Music Artists make most of their money from what are referred to as mechanical royalties.

So for a 10-track album, Numero may be beholden to 10 or more publishing companies for mechanical royalties.

The record company pays the recording artist a portion of the income from the sale of the recordings, generally known as a mechanical royalty.

The record company pays mechanical royalties to the publisher, composer, and songwriter via a collection society.

Hopkins also had to relinquish his mechanical royalties to Johnson, his replacement.