You are now listening to the Daily Spill... I'm Lexi and you're listening to the Daily Spill talk show with Lola Vanda. So, Samuel is the Southern African Music Rights Organization and they are a performance rights organization. They're not the only one in the world, there's many, some countries even have more than one like in the States, but it would make sense for you to be a part of one when you're able to just pick up the phone if you need to.
And I really do encourage that even for people who are already armed members of Samuel to speak up the phone, they have a call center where they have very knowledgeable people looking at some of your questions. So, Samuel's main role is to basically facilitate the relationship between music creators, which is youth artists and producers and music users, which is the television stations, radio, restaurants, malls, those places. What they do is they collect licensing fees from those places and then they hold on to those licensing fees. Then those broadcasters, your television, radio, all those places, they fill out queue sheets and send them through to Samuel.
With that information, Samuel then knows how much to pay you the music creator. It's about as simple as it gets. That's their main role. They're not there to fight your legal battles.
Your stuff is they, Samuel protects your stuff and that they collect the music licenses. That's their job. They don't they fight legal battles. What they also do is to, outside of ensuring that you get paid for your work, that gets broadcasted, they're there to actively promote the value of the community.
So they have got the initiative of conferences and a whole lot of other things that they do when they give out information and they promote a need for artists to be protected in that way and they promote themselves as well. So the information I'm going to be getting is from the Samuel website, which is www.seme.org.org. And if you go to the Music Creator application section, it's a step-by-step process for music creators. And you go through them and if you go to step one, they say that you download the four required forms below.
There's five forms there, but it's important that you have all of them, even if you just have electronic copies that you're able to then just have them with you. So I'm just going to go through the composer's split confirmation. That's their just, you know, you're in studio, everyone's in a vibe. No one really is thinking about how everything's going to be split.
So maybe a day or two after the session, you can email the form through to one of the artists to get them to sign, get them to send it back to you, then you're going to have to send it to the next artist. So it's a bit tedious, but this is the kind of thing that you want to do as early as possible before there's a release, before the money is made, just to ensure that everybody knows what their role was on the track, that their name is stated there, that they're signed, just as you know, just as a document, just so you can refer back to it. The next form I'm going to go through is the membership application form. I'm going to go through them quite quickly.
So the membership application form, it's states at the top that membership is free. Samuel membership is free. The only cost is your time and the little money that you might spend if you're going to be sending a fax or you're going to an internet cafe. I do suggest that you don't do this from your phone.
Getting the forms and everything. I suggest you do it at a PC so you can read everything properly and everything just will just work better. So going through the form section A of the membership application form, section A is just your personal details. I'm going to skip through that through to section B where you'll put your next of kin.
So these will be people that not necessarily music contacts, you want these to be people that you trust, possibly outside of the music industry, you think, consider family member, maybe a cousin, someone that you trust a lot and the event that you pass away or that you need to, you know, they can't get a hold of you for whatever reason, these are the people that they're going to contact. So that's where that's, they can get all those people, right? Moving on to section C, this is the bank details part. So this is quite self-explanatory.
I'm sure you've filled this out before somewhere else. There is a banking form that you will need to fill in. You'll send that through as well. I don't think they'll need that particular form as yet, but just to take it and send it through as well.
If they need to go through it, they will. And once you're done with all of this, you'll sign off at the bottom and make sure you initial every single page. They do state that they want you to initial every single page. Your next form will be the deed of assignment.
What the deed of assignment is there for is to just say, Samuel can do their job, which is collect the music licenses, and then pay you royalties when they figure out how much is owed to you. So you'll initial every single page, you'll fill out your information. On the first day, you'll put the date, you'll initial every single page. Then at the end, you'll sign where it's assigned by or on behalf of the sign.
The next block is signed for or on behalf of the organization, Samuel, that you'll leave open. The next form is the notification of Works form. That form is you registering your work. So you're going to have to ensure that there's enough time.
They say that the process, they say that you can check your process of the four weeks. I would say that the entire registration process can take anywhere between eight and ten weeks in situations where there's one or two hiccups. And that's usually going to happen. It's going to be something, even when I fill up my form, I had one of two hiccups.
It ended up taking a lot longer, but I didn't have any pending releases, so I wasn't rushed. So if you are planning a release, just be smart about your time and just make sure that you get your stuff registered long before you want to release your music. So with the registration of Works form, you're going to put in all your details, composer, author, details, identity number or password number. If you have a publisher, you will put that information in, and then registration type.
As a music creator, you'll check where it says, composer, author. Then you'll put in your contact details, go to the next page, your sign where it says composer, author, your date. And then you move on to the next part, which is the notification of your Works. So the title will be the title of your track.
If there's prominent lyrics, maybe there's a prominent line in the track and you want it to be an alternative title, you can put that there. I don't usually put anything in there. The duration of the track is of explanatory instrumentation. If you have instruments as well as vocals, then you'll tick IV.
If you've got vocal solo, maybe an acapella, you'll tick VS. And if it's an instrumental solo, then you'll tick IS. The type of work, I usually just put the genre. I've never had a problem with that.
Performing artists will just be stage names of whether they perform the track. And then rights holders names, that's where the government names go with. The government names or the names of the companies that are involved. The capacity of your role coding.
If you scroll to the bottom of the form, all the capacity in role codes, everything is there. And there are certain implications for some of these role codes, like the publisher's portion can never be above 50%. The subpublisher's portion can never be bigger than the publisher's portion. Those are just some of the small integrates.
But for the most part, you'll just divide everything out to make sure that it reaches 50%. So if there's two artists, each will get 50%. Your PR percentage needs to reach 100% at the end of the day. This is for your performance royalties.
You will fill out however many tracks you can. And I think you can notify with a lot. You can notify 30 tracks at a time, which is great if you want to notify some big amounts of work. And that is that form pretty much done.
So that's all the forms done. Once you're done putting out all the forms, you need to go and get a certified copy of your ID, attach it to all of these forms, and then you can flex it back, email it back, post it back. You'll be sending all that information through to customer services at simoral.org.z8. And then what you can do is after this, you should actually get an automatic reply from them.
Once you get that automatic reply, then wait. After that period, you can then call that number that they have on the website, which is 86117, 2676, and then you can inquire. You're inquiring. They'll ask for your details and they'll tell you where along the lines you are and if there's anything that needs to be done.
And then from there, you then wait for them to give you your relation number as well as your IP high number. Those numbers you'll need to hold on to. That will be like your international music ID number. Then the San Robord will sit a few times in the year.
And what they'll do is they'll check to see whether your music is active through these music licenses and these Q sheets that they receive from music users. They will then decide whether you are able to then move from being a prospective member, which is where you start off to be coming in active member. When you become an active member, that means that now you start earning them. That can take you six months.
It can take an entire distribution period. It can take a year. It can take two years. So when that happens, they'll give you a call to say, look, your music has been active and there is money to be paid.
The minimum payment, I've never really gotten a figure from anybody. Even people at San Robord are not 100% sure themselves. But I've heard people say that sometimes you just need to earn 50 rounds and say 500 in my situation, my first royalty payment was 300 rounds. This was many, many, many years ago.
So I'm not 100% sure how much that would be. But you just want to ensure that you have given yourself enough time for all of that to happen, especially if you went to release your music now. So just to end things off, if you have any other questions, you can hit me up. But also just try and give Sam a call or just wait a little bit longer.
Sometimes it's just time. I'm Lexi and you're listening to the Daily Store. You had him, man. You had him.
You had him. For you to be able to get that money when your music is played on radio, when your music is being performed on TV and all that stuff. But for today, that's what's up, man. Follow us at the Daily Spill Talk Show everywhere.
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