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One song pays out through several separate streams

Publishing, performance, mechanical and sync money are collected differently Songwriting and recording are separate copyrights with separate owners, which is why a cover pays the writer rather than the original performer. Collection societies gather performance money from venues and broadcasters. Streaming mixes mechanical and performance payments together. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Publishing, performance, mechanical and sync money are collected differently. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.