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AI musicMusic whose audio (or part of it) was generated by an artificial intelligence tool. Platforms label and restrict it.Author royaltiesMoney paid by a collecting society to authors and rights holders for the use of their works and recordings.AuthorThe natural person who created the work – in music the composer and the lyricist. A company or artificial intelligence cannot be an author.Public domainA work whose economic rights have expired – usually 70 years from the end of the year of the author's death. Anyone may use it.Moral rightsThe author's non-transferable rights – to decide on publication, to be named as the author and to protect the work against distortion.Cover versionYour own new recording of someone else's song. The original composer and lyricist remain the authors.Economic rightsThe author's right to use the work and to permit others to use it for a fee – reproduction, distribution, communication to the public.LyricistThe author of the words of a song. Entered in the Lyricist field; an instrumental recording has no lyricist.Metadata checkChecks in Artists Bez Labelu that point out the most common metadata errors before sending.Music publisherA company that manages and commercially exploits the copyright in a work (song), not in a recording.PerformerA person who performs a work – singer, rapper, musician. They have rights in their performance, independently of the song's authors.SampleAn excerpt of someone else's recording used in a new recording. It requires consent from both the recording owner and the song's authors.