How Do Publishing Track Claims Work?

Overview
In this article, you’ll learn how to submit a claim for your share of a Publishing track if the track has already been registered by another person first. Please follow the step-by-step guide, if necessary.

What is a Claim?
When you select a track for Publishing that’s already been registered by another person, you’ll need to submit a Claim to “claim” your share of the track.

When asked to submit a claim, you’ll confirm all writers, roles, and shares like you would any other Publishing track. You may also be asked to upload documentation like producer agreements, split sheets, or anything else you think can help us verify your share.

Submitting a Claim:
After confirming the correct information for writers and uploading documentation, you’ll be able to submit your Claim. Submitted Claims will appear in the Claims tab of the Publishing section of BeatStars Studio. After our team reviews and approves the Claim, the track will then appear in the Tracks tab with the rest of your Publishing tracks.

Claim Statuses:

• Under Review: We’ve received your Claim and are reviewing it to make sure everything is good to go.
• Approved: Your claim has been approved and we’ve associated you as a writer on the track.
• Pending: We’re processing your claim and awaiting final confirmation. This should take no more than 21 days.
• Rejected: We were unable to approve the claim based on the information or materials provided.

Step-by-Step Guide:

1. Log in to your BeatStars account, head to BeatStars Studio, and open your Publishing dashboard:
   
   
2. In the top right corner, you will see the + Add Track button. Please click this option to search for the submission:
   
   
   
3. Next, please search for the song you'd like to submit a claim for. You can search for either the song title + artist name or the song's ISRC number. When you've located the song, please click the "+" button and select the Next Step button:
   
   
4. The song, ISRC number, legal names, roles, and split percentages of all collaborators listed will appear. The bottom right-hand corner has a Submit Claim button. Please click this button once you've confirmed that you've located the correct submission:
   
   
   
5. A prompt to submit your claim will pop up. You'll have the option to confirm writer roles and splits on the submission, as you'll see here:
   
   
   Kindly select who you are (or the "None of these" option) and click the Next button. Now, you can adjust the split(s) accordingly. Once you've finished, you'll hit the Next button again.
   
   
6. Once you've adjusted the writers and/or splits accordingly, you have the option to add supporting documentation for your claim. You can upload either a.png, .jpg, .jpeg or .pdf file for us to review. Finally, select your reason for submitting a claim in the dropdown menu. When you're finished, please click the Submit button:
   

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If you have any questions during this process, please make sure that you contact BeatStars Support. We will be happy to guide you or answer any questions pertaining to this process.

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