The P Line and C Line (℗ and ©) are both used to pay the royalties to the owners of the content – they essentially identify who owns what part of the music.

 

The ℗ Line is for the phonographic copyright holder – the person who owns the asset of the final sound recording, and excludes any samples, melodies, lyrics or compositions used to produce the music.

 

With PlayTreks, you can choose to be independent and own this yourself, or use a publisher to handle your phonographic copyright. Whichever you choose, be sure to add that to your P Line when creating your release.

 

The © Line is for the composition copyright holder – the person(s) who created the music, i.e the melody, lyrics, structure etc. This kind of copyright is automatically implemented on any creative work once it takes on a tangible form.

 

Example 1: You are an independent artist and you’ve written and recorded your own track

Example 2: You are a label uploading on behalf of an artist