Dear moderation,
We’re having trouble with incorrect copyright identification for our album. This is specific to Spotify, but everything seems to be working correctly on other platforms. The cover artist(the artist who created the painting) is listed as the album’s creator(If I understand correctly, the artist who directly created the music should be the copyright holder of the album).
Could you please tell me if this can be corrected?
Artist (correct owner of the album rights) - yanabashipamatiir (Yana Suvorova)
The artist who created the painting commissioned for our album - Afaf Khalladi @ToastChoco
Sincerely, Yana Suvorova
Hello! Thank you very much for your reply.
I am referring to the Spotify platform. I am attaching a screenshot.
Hi @YanaSuvorova,
The ℗ symbol refers to the sound recording copyright. The © symbol refers to the copyright notice for works other than sound recordings. In this case, I’m not sure whether it refers only to the album cover art or also to the underlying musical composition and lyrics. I’m curious about this as well.
The explanation by Spotify is not very clear, so it would be great if @Carlos could explain it in more detail.
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As specified on the iMusician dashboard (you can see it on the screenshot I shared):
- © shows the name of the copyright owner for the artwork
- ℗ shows the name of the copyright owner for the audio recording
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Thank you very much for the information! Sorry to bother you.
Hi @Carlos,
I’ve contacted Spotify regarding their copyright policy. According to their support team:
"on Spotify - the C Line displays the copyright information for musical composition and lyrics and the P Line protecting the specific sound recording. In this case, I suggest you to please contact your distributor for more information as they only have access to all these"
Given this explanation, wouldn’t it make more sense for the artist name — in this case, Yana Suvorova — to be listed as the © copyright owner?
Thank you.