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Don’t worry about it. The global contributor market is unbelievably vast. There are no secret honey-holes. Just do your work and hope for the best.
Most RF libraries’ legal terms of use do not allow the creation of derivative works from tracks in their catalog, so uploading beats expecting people to use them in that way is barking up the wrong tree.
Or 1042 for non-US based recipients.
Be aware, it’s been mentioned and alluded to here in this thread that companies don’t have to 1099 you if they pay you less than X amount… that is true of ordinary income, but ROYALTY income is treated differently and companies are required by the IRS to issue a 1099 on ANY amount paid in royalties.
Also not a lawyer… but I just did the name game with a band a couple years ago. If there’s no existing TM, and if the other artist is inactive you should be fine. Matter of fact, you might want to go ahead and trademark it yourself if you can. That’s how we eventually got the rights to our name, a lot of people wanted it, but we followed through with a tM and ended the argument. That said, when possible we didn’t hassle folks using the name for their local/unrelated things. Beware of social media backlash, also kindness etc… Cheers.
I use the Sony7506’s for about 80% of tracking, editing, and rough mixing. I’m totally used to how they sound and they are as predictable as any source I have. For me familiarity trumps accuracy for doing the grunt work of arranging, editing, and roughing. I like the way they fit and refoam the ears when/if they get scratchy. I have worn many more expensive cans that were not comfortable or long stretches, or got loosey-goosey on my melon(AKG for sure). I always check against my big and small monitors, and the mini-van before I sign off on a mix anyway. Nine times out of Ten, with maybe a little low end roll-off, the Sony cans are good to go. At what…..100$? What’s not to like?