Neighboring Rights

Neighboring rights get their name from the master recording copyright, which “neighbors” the song copyright. Neighboring rights refer to the copyright protection of performers (musicians, vocalists) and owners of master recordings with regards to public performance, private copying, hometaping, and lending rights internationally.

These rights are fully separate and additional from the song copyright royalties covered by ASCAP, BMI, PRS/MCPS, SACEM, HFA, etc.

Neighboring rights are less well-known than songwriting/publishing rights, and each territory treats legal eligibilities for collection slightly differently.

With direct affiliations in every major territory, and many years working with and for neighboring rights performance rights organizations, Rident is uniquely situated to handle your neighboring rights collections worldwide.

Searching The Globe To Find Your Royalties

The music industry’s unclaimed royalty income, also known as Black Box Income, has been estimated at over $2 bilion dollars. These are royalties for which the proper writer, performer, publisher, or master recording owner has not registered for payment, or cannot be identified for payment.

The amounts due to performers and master owners for neighboring rights account for a significant portion of this figure. Please use our search below to determine if you may have unclaimed neighboring rights pending.

Don’t see your name or tracks listed? No worries! The search below is not comprehensive, and you may still have something out there.

Record Types

Shares: Unclaimed shares indicates that a percentage of performers’ neighboring rights for this track may be unclaimed in one or more territories.
Masters: Unclaimed masters indicates that the 50% of neighboring rights due to the master owner of this track may be unclaimed in one or more territories.
Entity: Unclaimed entities indicates that multiple tracks related to this entity may be unclaimed in one or more territories.

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