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  "_type": "curated_open_data",
  "as_of": "2026-07",
  "links": {
    "canonical": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai",
    "docs_for_llms": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/llms.txt",
    "sell_your_own": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings",
    "vertical_listings": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings?vertical=music"
  },
  "records": [
    {
      "term": "International Standard Recording Code",
      "category": "Identifier",
      "definition": "A unique code identifying a specific sound or music-video recording.",
      "abbreviation": "ISRC"
    },
    {
      "term": "International Standard Musical Work Code",
      "category": "Identifier",
      "definition": "A unique code identifying a musical composition (the underlying work).",
      "abbreviation": "ISWC"
    },
    {
      "term": "International Standard Name Identifier",
      "category": "Identifier",
      "definition": "A code identifying a contributor such as a writer, artist, or publisher.",
      "abbreviation": "ISNI"
    },
    {
      "term": "Universal Product Code",
      "category": "Identifier",
      "definition": "A product barcode identifying a release such as an album or single.",
      "abbreviation": "UPC"
    },
    {
      "term": "Mechanical royalty",
      "category": "Royalty",
      "definition": "A payment to songwriters/publishers for reproducing a composition on records or streams.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Performance royalty",
      "category": "Royalty",
      "definition": "A payment for the public performance of a composition, collected by PROs.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Synchronization license",
      "category": "Licensing",
      "definition": "Permission to pair music with visual media such as film, TV, or ads.",
      "abbreviation": "Sync"
    },
    {
      "term": "Master recording",
      "category": "Rights",
      "definition": "The specific recorded version of a song; the sound-recording copyright.",
      "abbreviation": "Master"
    },
    {
      "term": "Publishing (composition)",
      "category": "Rights",
      "definition": "The copyright in the underlying song — its melody and lyrics — separate from the master.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Performing-rights organization",
      "category": "Institution",
      "definition": "An entity that licenses public performance and pays writers and publishers.",
      "abbreviation": "PRO"
    },
    {
      "term": "Blanket license",
      "category": "Licensing",
      "definition": "A single license granting access to an entire catalog rather than track-by-track.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Compulsory (statutory) license",
      "category": "Licensing",
      "definition": "A license the law grants at a set rate without the owner's individual consent, as under Section 115.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Digital service provider",
      "category": "Distribution",
      "definition": "A streaming or download platform that delivers music to consumers.",
      "abbreviation": "DSP"
    },
    {
      "term": "Recoupment",
      "category": "Contracts",
      "definition": "A label recovering advances from an artist's royalties before further payouts.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Advance",
      "category": "Contracts",
      "definition": "An up-front, recoupable payment made against future royalty earnings.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.copyright.gov/circs/",
      "name": "U.S. Copyright Office — Circulars & Music Licensing"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://isrc.ifpi.org",
      "name": "IFPI — ISRC Handbook"
    }
  ],
  "category": "glossary",
  "vertical": "music",
  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
  "record_count": 15,
  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
  "record_schema": {
    "term": "Term, code, or metric",
    "category": "Domain the term belongs to",
    "definition": "Plain-language meaning",
    "abbreviation": "Common abbreviation or code"
  },
  "buyer_use_cases": [
    "Align metadata and rights systems around standardized identifiers like ISRC and ISWC.",
    "Educate creators and staff on royalty types and master-versus-publishing rights."
  ]
}