Copyright royalties are often very Specific to the nature of work and field endeavor. With respect to music royalties foe performance rights in the United States are set by the library of Congress 'Copyright Royalty Board Performance rights to recording of performance are usually managed by one of several Performance Rights organization . Payment from these organization to performing artists are known as residuals and performance royalties Royalty free music provide more direct compensation to artists. In 1999,recording artists formed the Recording Artists 'Coalition to repeal supposedly " technical revision " to American copyright statutes which would have classified all "sound recording " as "works for hire ", effectively assigning artists 'copyright to record labels