Members
Member Benefits
Your Membership Agreement allows you to focus on using your creativity, and not on collecting royalties for event where your work is played. This is where our organisation works for you.
COTT’s role is to licence music users for the broadcasting, public performance and recording of music in Trinidad and Tobago, to collect license fees or royalties and to distribute royalties to its members and foreign copyright owners.
COTT MEMBERS
COTT has over 2500 local members comprising, Songwriters, Music Composers, Authors of lyrics or words that have been set to music, Music Publishers, Successors (beneficiaries of deceased members)
MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
COTT provides two types of membership. Songwriters, composers and lyricists must have a work that has been broadcast, performed live, played in public or recorded while Publishers must have contracts covering at least 5 works.
MEMBERSHIP JOINING FEES
Songwriters, composers and lyricists are required to pay a one-off fee of $100. Publishers are required to pay a one-off fee of $500.There is no annual membership fee
Member benefits
- Efficient payment of royalties at least 4 times per year for the public performance, broadcast, communication and recording of your music in Trinidad & Tobago and overseas.
- Detailed statements of royalties paid.
- Royalties credited to a designated bank account.
- Registration of works and agreements.
- Advice and consultation on copyright protection.
- Referral to legal services.
- Participation in a Group Life Insurance Plan.
- An exclusive membership & discount card.
- COTT investigates the commission of criminal offences against members’ copyrights through its Anti-Piracy unit, working closely with the police and customs.
- When a COTT member dies his spouse, child, relative, next of kin or beneficiary under a will can apply for Membership. This successor member can collect royalties up to 50 years after the death of the COTT member.
- Attendance at copyright and songwriting seminars and workshops hosted by COTT.
- Receipt of COTT’s quarterly newsletter.
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Updates
28 October 2011 Machel and Kes the Band for the 2011 Soul Train Awards
The Soul Train Music Awards for 2011, have nominated both reigning Road March and Soca Monarch, Machel Montano, and Groovy Soca Monarch Kes Dieffenthaller of Kes the Band for the prestigious award in the category of Best Caribbean Performance with their hit singles, “Bend Over” and “Wotless”.
