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Last Updated: December 18, 2025

Royalties

What is a Payee?

A Payee is any contributor or collaborator on your audio or video content that you would like to share royalties with (i.e. featured artist, audio engineer, video producer, etc).

Please note, the My Payee feature only allows you to share Music Video and Sound Recording (Master) royalties.

Once I've accepted an invitation to start collecting royalties, where can I track my earned revenue?

When a Arson Theory user invites you to collect royalties on content and you accept the asset split, you can track your shared revenue by clicking into the Shared with Me folder located within your Content dashboard.

You can review total earnings within your Royalties dashboard

Do I need to sign the Royalty Center Authorization to pay out my collaborators?

Yes. The Royalty Center Authorization enables Arson Theory to pay out your collaborators on your behalf.

How do I split royalties with my Payee?

In order to share royalties with a Payee, complete the following steps:

  1. Click Royalties from the top menu bar and select My Payees.
  2. Click Assign Royalties.
  3. Choose a Payee or Add a New Payee.
  4. Select the content for which you would like to split royalties.
  5. Assign the royalty percentage the Payee should receive for each asset.
  6. Review the Royalty Assignment Details.
  7. Agree to the Royalty Center Authorization.
  8. Select Confirm and Invite
What is the Royalty Center?

The Royalty Center is Arson Theory's universal payment solution that allows you to pay your collaborators (Payees) royalties for their contributions to your content. Invite your Payees, assign royalty percentages, and let our technology distribute funds accordingly to ensure everyone gets paid their share of earnings.

How can I use the Royalty Center to Assign Royalties?

The Royalty Center includes Arson Theory's universal payment solution that allows you to pay your collaborators (Payees) customizable percentages of music video and/or sound recording royalties for their contributions to your content.

Invite your Payees, assign royalty percentages, and let our technology distribute funds accordingly to ensure everyone gets paid their share of earnings.

Where can I view Royalty Information?

The Royalty tab within your Arson Theory dashboard is where you can view data related to your content's revenue, review and download statements, and Assign Royalties to content collaborators.

Earnings

How long will it take to receive my monthly payment?

Processing times can vary depending on the chosen payout method. Royalty payments are submitted mid-month.

However, payments made on our around weekends and holidays, can delay transactions until the following week.

I've accepted an invitation to start collecting royalties. How long will it take until I get paid?

If a user has invited a Payee to start collecting royalties through the Arson Theory platform, they will receive an invitation. The sooner the Payee accepts the invitation, the quicker they will start to receive earnings for streams and downloads of shared content.

Payees will begin earning their share of the revenue generated during the month in which they accepted the invite (not any time prior).

Keep in mind, once we receive earnings statements from our partner platforms, we will ingest them into our system.

Partner platforms have various schedules for statements and payouts.

Typically, it can take anywhere from 1 to 4 months (depending on the revenue source) before earned revenue is made available to you.

The earnings you accrue can either be used as a credit towards any services on our site or paid out to you directly.

How can I earn money from my content from YouTube and Facebook

One of the benefits of selecting a Arson Theory Plan is having the option to monetize your audio and video content.

By selecting a monetize policy, content containing your works will be claimed as yours, and subsequently have revenue generated from audience-appropriate advertisements being placed alongside the claimed content.

Please be advised that by selecting a monetize policy, content that you upload on your social media platforms will be claimed as well in order to apply your monetization policy.

Also, note that selecting a monetize policy does not guarantee that revenue will be generated; but rather enables the option for ads to generate revenue.


In order to start monetizing, users must create a release on their 'Content' dashboard and select 'Monetize' as the protection policy across YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram

If I monetize my content through Arson Theory, how and when will I receive my money?

Once we receive earnings statements from our partner platforms, we will ingest them into our system. Partner platforms have various schedules for statements and payouts. Typically, it can take anywhere from 1 to 4 months (depending on the revenue source) before earned revenue is made available to you.

The earnings you accrue can either be used as a credit towards any services on our site or paid out to you directly once you register with our payment system, Tipalti. Please note that you are only eligible to sign up with Tipalti once you accumulate a minimum balance of $35, and verify your email addresses.

Once you have successfully onboarded with Tipalti, payments will automatically be sent to you on a monthly basis around mid-month starting the next applicable pay period.

For questions on Tipalti, please visit for Tipalti FAQ page here. Please note, all payments are subject to Arson Theory's approval process. Arson Theory reserves the right to withhold earnings that do not comply with Domestic/International banking regulations as well as Arson Theory's Terms and Conditions.

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