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WMG is a group of recorded music labels and a music publisher rather than a consumer business, so contact runs through the label, publisher or distributor named on your agreement or your royalty statement, with the general enquiry and licensing routes listed on the group website. Work out first which right your question touches, because the recording, the composition and the distribution are often administered by different parts of the group. Put the query in writing with the release title, the track identifiers and the statement period attached. If your issue is a claim against something you uploaded, the platform where the claim appeared handles the dispute, not a head office address.

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A WMG claim on a video means a rights holder inside the group has matched a recording or a composition in your upload against its catalogue, usually through the platform's automated matching system rather than a person watching your video. Dispute it on the platform where the claim appeared, since that is the only route that can lift it, and keep the claim reference. State precisely why the claim is wrong: you hold a licence, the match is to different material, the recording is your own, or the use falls outside what was claimed. Attach the licence or the purchase receipt. Do not delete the upload while a dispute is open, because that usually ends the process without a decision, and watch the platform deadlines, which are short and run whether you reply or not.

Using a WMG song legally usually needs two permissions rather than one: a licence for the recording from the label side and a licence for the underlying composition from the publishing side. Decide which you need before you ask, because a cover version, a sample and a song used in a video are three different requests with three different routes. Send the request in writing with the exact track, the intended use, the territory, the length of the extract and the term you need, then keep the date you sent it. Allow real time for an answer and never treat silence as permission.

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Send a WMG royalty query to whoever issued the statement, naming the statement period, the tracks and the exact figures you cannot reconcile, and ask for the underlying detail behind those lines rather than a reassurance. Check first which agreement covers the income, because recording royalties, publishing income and distribution fees come from different places and are often paid on different schedules. Keep your own record of what you signed, who administers each right and which bank and tax details are held, since a late payment is often a payment detail problem rather than a dispute. Ask for a payment date in writing.

Royalty statement with figures you cannot reconcile? Open the case with us: our trained AI keeps coaching you on what to ask for next and when to push again.

Nothing has been reported about WMG here yet. Our research shows what typically goes wrong at large music groups: royalty statements that are hard to reconcile, payments that arrive late, copyright claims and takedowns against uploads that use protected recordings or compositions, licensing and clearance requests that go unanswered, credits and metadata attached to the wrong release, and no obvious way to reach a person inside a group made up of many labels.

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