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Copyright (authors' rights)An author's rights in their work – moral rights (authorship, integrity) and economic rights (the right to use the work and to permit its use).Moral rightsThe author's non-transferable rights – to decide on publication, to be named as the author and to protect the work against distortion.AuthorThe natural person who created the work – in music the composer and the lyricist. A company or artificial intelligence cannot be an author.Collective managementCollective exercise of copyright and related rights by a state-authorised organisation – it collects fees from music users and distributes them to rights holders.Author royaltiesMoney paid by a collecting society to authors and rights holders for the use of their works and recordings.Copyright (US concept)The Anglo-American term for rights in a work. In distribution it mostly appears as the C-line (©) of a release.Mastering engineerThe engineer who turns a finished mix into the final master for distribution.PerformerA person who performs a work – singer, rapper, musician. They have rights in their performance, independently of the song's authors.RecordingA specific sound recording (WAV file) delivered to the platforms. It has its own ISRC code.SongThe everyday word for a musical work; in distribution we distinguish the song (work) from the recording (sound recording).StemsSeparately exported groups of tracks (vocals, drums, bass …) from one recording.Work (composition)Music and lyrics as the result of the authors' creative work – regardless of who records them and how.