Music Services is hiring a Licensing Clearance Intern to join our team in Nashville. As an intern at Music Services, you will focus on joining forces with our License Clearance team to obtain mechanical-DPD and new digital media licenses on behalf of our many record label clients.   

 What You Will Be Doing:

• Logging whitesheet information into a company tracking sheet for each label client including song titles, publishers, and publisher administrators.
• Using online licensing portals for licensing mechanicals and DPD’s at major pub administrators like Harry Fox, BMG, Capitol CMG Publishing, Essential Music Publishing (Sony/Provident Music Group) and Integratedrights.com.
• Confirming with publisher administrators their administrative share of songs by researching their sites and the PRO sites – ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.
• Contacting major publishers like BMG, Sony, Warner Chappell and Universal directly for sync/digital video licensing.
• Using Music Services proprietary software database to obtain information on songs and publishers and emailing updated publisher information to Music Services team
• Corresponding with independent songwriters to obtain licensing.
• Updating project whitesheets to reflect licensing requested and obtained. 
• Updating project folders with licenses.
• Assisting label administration and publishing administration team with royalty payouts as needed.