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Music & Entertainment: Royalty Rates & Certification Benchmarks
A free, platform-curated reference of the statutory royalty rates, copyright terms, and sales-certification thresholds that structure the recorded-music business. Figures come from the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board, U.S. copyright law, the RIAA, and the UK's BPI, each marked with the applicable period. Useful for rights administrators, catalog investors, and music-tech builders who need dependable industry baselines at no cost.
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"unit": "cents per song up to 5 minutes",
"value": "9.1",
"metric": "Section 115 mechanical royalty (physical/downloads), frozen rate",
"period": "2006-2022",
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"unit": "cents per minute of playing time",
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"unit": "cents per song up to 5 minutes",
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"metric": "Section 115 mechanical royalty base rate (physical/downloads)",
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"source": "U.S. Copyright Royalty Board"
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"unit": "units",
"value": "500000",
"metric": "RIAA Gold certification (album)",
"period": "current",
"source": "RIAA"
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{
"unit": "units",
"value": "1000000",
"metric": "RIAA Platinum certification (album)",
"period": "current",
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"unit": "units",
"value": "10000000",
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"period": "current",
"source": "RIAA"
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"unit": "on-demand streams per album unit",
"value": "1500",
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"period": "current",
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"unit": "on-demand streams per song unit",
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"period": "current",
"source": "BPI (UK)"
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"unit": "units",
"value": "100000",
"metric": "BPI Gold certification (album)",
"period": "current",
"source": "BPI (UK)"
},
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"unit": "units",
"value": "300000",
"metric": "BPI Platinum certification (album)",
"period": "current",
"source": "BPI (UK)"
},
{
"unit": "duration",
"value": "life of author plus 70 years",
"metric": "U.S. copyright term, works created 1978 or later",
"period": "current",
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"unit": "duration (whichever ends first)",
"value": "95 years from publication or 120 from creation",
"metric": "U.S. copyright term, works made for hire",
"period": "current",
"source": "17 U.S.C. §302(c)"
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"url": "https://www.crb.gov",
"name": "U.S. Copyright Office — Copyright Royalty Board"
},
{
"url": "https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/about-awards/",
"name": "RIAA — Gold & Platinum Award Criteria"
},
{
"url": "https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/",
"name": "BPI — Certified Awards"
}
],
"category": "benchmarks",
"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.",
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"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.",
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"unit": "Unit of measure",
"value": "Published figure",
"metric": "Name of the rate, term, or threshold",
"period": "Year or applicability",
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