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M U S I C I N D U S T R Y B A S I C S 187 Microphone: The biggest investments will be your laptop, your Digital Audio workstation and your microphone. You can use entry-level products to start out and upgrade as you go. Get what you need and get ready to get started! LESSON 2: DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLISHING Now that you have equipment, you can start making music. These are some things for you to know. Distribution: Your distributors are going to make sure that music's getting out to the world by sending it to iTunes and Spotify for a small fee. If you go and sign up for certain distributors, there's a lot of resources out there, like SOCAN, Distrokid, Songtrust, Tunecore, CD Baby. Some of these will do both distribution and publishing. Publishing: Your publishing is going to make sure that you get paid for those. There's two different types of royalties for publishing. Those are your mechanical royalties and your perfor- mance royalties. Publishing will just make sure that you get paid every time somebody streams your song, every time a radio station plays it, every time somebody uses it. Copyright: Every time you create a song, you own a copyright. If you create the instrumental and the lyrics and own the master recording, you own the copyright and you don't have to register it anywhere. If you do a feature with somebody, a producer on a beat, automat- ically, unless decided otherwise, that would be split 50% - 50% between the composer and the songwriter. Licensing: You own your song unless you decide to license it or give it out otherwise. You give your distributors a license to put your music out on streaming services.