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The Power of the catalog fixing workshop

You can import in Le Sage all catalogs you received from your clients, CMO's, distributors, etc. You won't always get the same amount of information, the same point of view in the copyright , the right information for you to be able to send out and register the songs.

Therefore you will have tools in the Catalog fixing workshop to help you clean the data and shape it to fit CWR requirements and the way you are supposed to see and send out the copyright.

The catalogue fixing workshop is a toolbox and can massively makes changes on the copyright of several songs at the same time. All the tools we have have been added after specific needs from our clients.

To illustrate the use of this toolbox we will take an example of catalog imported and show the modifications that have to be done on it to be able to send it out.


It is extremely important to analyse and understand what the copyright needs to be clean and ready for registration. The catalogue fiwing workshops gives you the keys to understand and modify the copyright according to you needs.

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In this catalog the person has send the collection shares and not the owned shares, because the % are on the Subpublisher and not on the original publisher.

These works are also lacking of chain of rights, meaning that this catalogue isn't explaining which publisher represents which A/C/AR/AD.

In addition to what can be seen straight away we have a tool called "Check Before exorting" that looks at a series of mandatory requirements 

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We will use the catalogue fixing workshop to give back the owned shares to the original publisher that is on the same chain than the subpublisher.

Catalogue fiwing workshop -> action on rates

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There are remaining errors in the check before exporting menu

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Eahc time you want to correct a problem you click on "List".

  • -Writers/ composers without last/first name split

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Select only the Authors/composers/arrangers/adaptators -> A

You can filter on only the one than havn't got their names split.

Then CTRL+A -> right click -> seperate first name/last name

  • Invalid role

Go to the catalogue fixing workshop -> action on actors

All the invalid roles have question marks around them :

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Replace the role with the adequate one.

  • No writer/composer has perfomance shares

In this case the works have an actor names "Public Domain" with a role CA, that doesn't have any shares and arrangers.

This actor has to have the role "DP" so the system can add the Public Domain IPI when exporting the works and for the system to export this actor that has no %. to make a work with only arrangers with shares valid.

You have to then make sure that the system understands the copyright according to your agreements when you are sending it out to a third party.

If you send it to BMG this is how the system understands the work

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If I send it to SAYCE the system show that this work isn't represented

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If the work is supposed to be seen by SAYCE then the idea is to look into why the original publisher.s in the work is.are not linked to an agreement that includes the territory of the third party.

 

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