# 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.