Producer glossary

• Advance: Money paid before later earnings; recoupment depends on the agreement.
• Backend: Contingent participation calculated after defined receipts, deductions, or recoupment.
• Cash receipt: Cleared money actually available—not a forecast, statement, or unsigned opportunity.
• Composition: Copyrightable music and lyrics, distinct from a recording.
• Cue sheet: Record identifying music used in an audiovisual production.
• Deliverable: A required file, document, version, approval, or item.
• Gross receipts: Defined incoming revenue before permitted deductions.
• Master: A particular sound recording and its associated rights.
• Mechanical royalty: Payment associated with reproduction/distribution of a composition.
• Metadata: Structured information identifying work, recording, contributors, rights, version, or status.
• Minimum guarantee: Contracted minimum payment, sometimes credited against later amounts.
• Net receipts: Gross receipts minus only contractually permitted deductions.
• One-stop: One authorized party can clear all required composition and master rights for the stated use.
• PRO: Performing rights organization; it does not replace every publishing collection system.
• Provenance: Evidence showing what existed, when, from whom, and with what limitations.
• Recoupment: Recovery of contractually defined costs from a stated revenue base.
• Split sheet: Record of agreed authorship or revenue shares; not a complete agreement.
• Stems: Grouped audio components delivered separately.
• SVOD: Subscription video on demand.
• Waterfall: Contractual order for receipts, deductions, recoupment, reserves, and distributions.

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