CMU's team training is a great way to get everyone on the same page - and to bring teams together to learn, share, engage and connect with each other, and with current topics of interest across the industry.

We have a wide range of "off-the-shelf" training sessions to choose from, making it easy for music companies to create their own tailor-made training programme.

All of our sessions can be delivered in one hour or less, maximising impact for busy teams. However, if you want more time - for break-outs, Q&A or other activity - we can accommodate this. In fact, where timings allow we strongly recommend it as most teams have a lot of questions!

We can deliver our training sessions in-person or as online sessions. Our online sessions are delivered live, rather than using pre-recorded content, meaning there's plenty of scope for making tweaks to content to ensure it meets your needs.

More and more we are being asked to deliver hybrid sessions, where we will deliver to a group in person while another group (often in another country, or another office) joins via Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or similar video-conferencing platform.

We've happy to deliver using our own Zoom account, either as a Zoom Meeting (where all participants can see each other - recommended for smaller sessions, or where team interaction is important) or, for larger "all-hands" sessions as a Zoom Webinar, where participants can't see or interact with each other, but can watch the content and ask questions in the live stream.

We can also create entirely bespoke training for your team or whole company.

We've delivered bespoke training sessions for numerous music companies and organisations, including Sony Music, Warner Music, SoundCloud, Emubands, ie:music, ATC Management, BPI, MMF, IMRO, the Musicians’ Union, the British Council, Promus, Music Norway, Music Estonia and the Association Of Caribbean Copyright Societies.

Current "off-the-shelf" training:

The music rights business makes money by exploiting the controls that come with the copyrights in songs and recordings. Get to grips with all the basic principles of copyright law and how music copyright makes money in this user-friendly easy-to-follow seminar.

Sometimes the music industry licenses through direct deals, other times it employs the collective licensing approach. Fully understand how collective licensing works – in the UK and around the world – in this user-friendly easy-to-follow webinar.

Getting songwriters and artists paid when their songs and recordings are played often comes down to whether or not the right data is in the system. But what data? This webinar runs through all the key data points and explains how to get information into the system.

Getting songwriters and artists paid when their songs and recordings are played often comes down to whether or not the right data is in the system. But what data? This webinar runs through all the key data points and explains how to get information into the system.

As the legitimate digital music market has evolved so has online music piracy. This webinar looks at the piracy challenge over the last 20 years, how the music industry has sought to tackle the problem, and which anti-piracy tactics actually work today.

While there are some basic principles that join up all the copyright systems around the world, there are also some key differences from country to country. And with American copyright law, some things are just plain weird. This webinar gives you a guide to five significant ways in which copyright in the US is different to the UK and Continental Europe.

Streaming accounted for 62.1% of recorded music revenues in 2020 and the market continues to grow – but it is also evolving as new services and kinds of services becoming increasingly important revenue generators. Find out more about the digital music market today and in the future.

The streaming business is complex in terms of how services are licensed, and how artists and songwriters get paid. Get to grips with it all via our concise user-friendly guide to digital licensing and streaming royalties – explained in full in just ten steps.

Streaming is a revenue share game, with digital dollars shared out each month between artists, songwriters, labels and publishers. We explain how the money is currently split up and talk through why some people in the industry believe a different approach is needed.

The global record industry continues to grow on the back of the streaming boom, though challenges remain in the streaming business. We outline and explain all the key challenges, and suggest what solutions may be employed by the services and the music industry.

Markets like China, India, Russia, South Korea and Brazil have played a key role in the revival of the record industry’s fortunes, while markets in Africa are set to become increasingly important in the years ahead. Which services and what models dominate in these countries?

The music industry went to war with YouTube over safe harbour and the value gap. What does that even mean? And who is winning the battle? We look at 2019’s controversial European Copyright Directive and what impact it will – or will not – have, and whether those reforms can – or will – be adopted by the US. Plot twist: maybe YouTube wasn’t even the real problem.