Epic Records Japan · Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)
BURNOUT SYNDROMES
Composition and master are two separate copyrights. Composition is the song (lyrics + melody, identified by ISWC). Master is the specific recording (identified by ISRC). They live in parallel ecosystems with different owners, collectors, and money flows.
Composition
Writers
Publishers
PH = of the publisher's-half (the 50% of composition revenue allocated to publishers; the other 50% writer's-half is paid directly to writers).
Master
Owner of record
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) · 100.0%
Held since: 2016-08-10
Artist royalty
18.0%
Of the master's net revenue. Producer points (below) come off the artist's share in standard major-label deals via a Letter of Direction.
Producer points
Neighboring rights
Eligible
Master-side performance royalties — SoundExchange (US, non-interactive digital), PPL (UK), GVL (DE), etc.
Every downstream use that references this work and every upstream source this work derives from. Each edge is cryptographically signed by the deriver and anchored as an EAS attestation on Soneium.
Self-declared edges
Every transfer of master-economic-interest, catalog-administration, or publishing-administration recorded on-chain. Each transfer carries effective date, instrument reference, and the tx hash that anchors it.
Epic Records Japan (SMEJ)Legacy Recordings (SMEJ)
社内カタログ再編契約 / Internal Catalog Reassignment
