The Ticking Clock on Unclaimed Money

“I’ll worry about publishing when I start getting millions of streams.”

Collection societies do not hold unclaimed money forever. You typically have a 2-to-3-year window to claim mechanical and performance royalties. After that, they are liquidated into the black box and paid out to major-label catalogs by market share. Waiting until you “make it” is how the early catalog disappears.

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By the time you hit a million streams and decide to get organized, the money from the first years may already be gone. RightsTune exists to claim what is still claimable and to keep new usage from aging out. The clock started when the streams happened, not when you finally read a blog post about it.