Neon Law Nocturne

Set up the rights behind your release, once

$1,111 once, for one release

Neon Law Nocturne

$1,111 once

The rights registrations and accounts behind one release, set up once by a licensed attorney.

  • A rights intake that records who wrote it, who performed it, and who owns the recording
  • BMI writer affiliation and the work registrations for the release
  • The MLC member and work registration when you administer your own publishing
  • SoundExchange registration for the recording, when it applies to you
  • Distributor selection, release metadata, and delivery setup for Spotify, Apple Music, and similar services
  • Spotify for Artists and Apple Music for Artists profile claiming when the platform makes you eligible
  • One U.S. Copyright Office registration — that government fee is included
  • A closing checklist recording every account, identifier, and registered work you now own
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Neon Law Nocturne is a one-time, flat-fee engagement for an independent artist with a release to put out. A licensed attorney sets up the registrations and accounts through which royalties for that release can be paid, and hands you a written record of everything you now own.

Try Nocturne when you have a finished release and no label, publisher, or administrator handling your registrations.

Your music earns through four different lanes

Money for one song moves through separate systems, and each one needs its own registration. Nocturne sets up all four for a single release.

  • The composition, performed publicly. When your song is played on the radio, in a venue, or streamed, the writer and publisher of the composition are owed performance royalties. BMI collects these. We handle your writer affiliation and register the works on the release.
  • The composition, reproduced. Every U.S. digital stream or download also generates a mechanical royalty on the composition. The MLC collects these for self-administered writers. We register you and your works.
  • The recording, distributed. Spotify and Apple Music do not license or pay recording royalties directly to independent artists — a distributor does, and Apple does the same. We help you select a distributor and set up the release metadata and delivery.
  • The recording, played on non-interactive digital radio. A separate statutory royalty exists for recording artists and rightsholders when a recording is played on services like SiriusXM or internet radio. SoundExchange collects it. This is not the same lane as BMI or your distributor, and it needs its own registration.

What the fee covers

One fixed fee of $1,111 covers the intake, every registration above for one release, and the closing checklist. It also covers one U.S. Copyright Office registration — either a single work or one group-of-works-on-an-album filing — and that government fee is inside the flat fee because your engagement letter expressly includes it.

BMI writer affiliation, The MLC, and SoundExchange registration carry no fee from those organizations. Two costs stay outside the fee and pass through at cost: BMI publisher affiliation, if the work calls for it, and your distributor's own subscription, which is a recurring charge on an account you own and keep paying after this engagement closes. We tell you each amount before you commit to it.

A second release is a new engagement at the same flat fee, not an extension of this one.

The honest boundary

We do not deliver your music to Spotify or Apple — your distributor does, and that relationship is between you and them. Registering your works does not produce streams, earnings, or any payment; it sets up the lanes through which a payment can travel if one is owed. Whether one is owed depends on your music and the market, and no lawyer can promise you otherwise.

You own every account. We never collect or store your passwords, and you complete every identity, tax, banking, and multi-factor step yourself, because those accounts must answer to you and not to us.

Some situations need separate scope, and we will tell you when yours is one: a disagreement with a collaborator, an uncleared sample, a conflicting ownership claim, an existing label or publishing deal, a catalog transfer, or any agreement that has to be negotiated rather than filed.

If you want to know whether Nocturne fits your release, email support@neonlaw.com with a short description of what you have recorded and who worked on it. We respond within one business day. A written engagement letter states the exact scope, the fee, and the terms before any work begins.