This new requirement is in reference to protecting the "mechanical royalties" of the music publisher for an audio recording. If anyone sings a song written by someone else and that song is copyrighted, then royalties must be paid to the owner of the song. (Previously, IRMA requirements only protected the original artist's recording.) These royalties can be easily paid by visiting either http://harryfox.com or http://www.songfile.com. One can pay the royalties online and receive a document that shows they are clear to have "X" number of copies replicated of that particular song. As of October 1st, we will need this documentation for each track of the master that has copyrighted songs, even if they are not recorded by the original performer.

We at CD Solutions know this can get confusing, so we have attached a PDF document to this page entitled:  "Intellectual Property Licensing for Media Replication". This document does a good job of explaining not only mechanical royalties but also other types of licenses that should serve to make things clearer for you. (Please feel free to distribute it throughout your organization.)

In this day and age where lawsuits abound, we need to be very careful. We understand that these IRMA requirements are a task you may not want to deal with and believe us, CD Solutions is not trying to make it hard to business with us......we are trying to make it safe to do business with us! Any company not taking these precautions are dealing with a major contingent liability that can also involve you. 

Thank you, as always, for your understanding and support! Call us with any questions you may have. (Or any gripes for that matter!)

CD Solutions Support and Sales Staff