When you sign along the dotted line, you are licensing all tracks signed forever to The DML, of which you will receive 50% (of your artist share) of any income generated at the source.

As anything licensed to us will be assigned to an exclusive agreement, you cannot license any tracks signed to any other party, as this right will belong to The DML.

You will be accounted for twice yearly, at the ends of March and September.

Although we can & will help if required It is your responsibility to be registered with a Performance Rights Organisation, such as the PRS (UK), ASCAP (USA), BUMA (NL) or GEMA (GMBH), and provide us with your Unique Reference Number. It is imperative that you have this number before anything is released. Otherwise, you may miss out on what is called Performance Income, which is additional to the revenue you will receive from us.

The same applies to income revenue called Neighbouring Rights, although this income is not available from many countries.

Be sure that you are happy to give up these rights, as once you sign along the dotted line and return the agreement to The DML, there is no going back!

Sound scary? Don’t worry, you are in safe hands, the DML and JAL have been doing this since 1992.

Click here for our DML Standard Agreement