Crucial Deal
We want to break your music. Not you.
- You have to own or control your own masters and publishing. If you have co-writers, they have to own their own publishing too; and they must sign off on the agreement as well.
- You own 100%. You DO NOT LOSE or GIVE UP any ownership of the copyrights in the master recording or the composition.
- Your deal with Crucial Music will not prohibit you from doing anything with your music.
- You are ONLY granting Crucial Music a NON-EXCLUSIVE right to pitch, negotiate and issue non-exclusive licenses for the use of your music by our clients.
- Crucial Music will collect and send you 50% of all revenue generated by the placements we secure for you.
- You will be paid royalties directly from your performing rights organization for the uses we have generated for you.
- Crucial Music will never give your music away for free. No "gratis" deals will be made.
- The agreement will last 3 years. Unless we receive your termination notice, 60 days prior to expiration, the agreement will automatically renew for another 3 years.
- You will have to provide a full version, an instrumental version and a clean version (if lyrics are explicit) of your song(s) to us with 2 signed copies of the contract.
- All versions of your songs will be added to our online searchable database and to the Crucial:Drive, a portable hard-drive we will supply to music supervisors, editors and creative directors.
- All artists receive the same deal and sign the standard agreement. No exceptions will be made; the agreement will not be modified.
