Signed Agreements, Ownership Records and Exports

Who this is for

You have signed agreements and want to know where they live, what keysig builds from them, and how to get the data out.

Where signed PDFs live

Every signed agreement keeps its PDF, the one the e-signature service produced with the signatures and signing record. Open the agreement and choose Download signed PDF. The Signed section on your dashboard and on Agreements lists them. Other signers with a keysig account see the same agreement under Shared with you and can download the same PDF. The e-signature service also emailed the completed PDF to everyone when the last signature landed. Downloading a signed agreement never costs a credit.

Ownership records

Some agreements state who owns what share of a song or a recording. From those, keysig derives a record for each track, each party, and each side of the copyright:

• Composition (the song): split sheets and songwriter agreements.
• Master (the recording): producer agreements (points), featured artist agreements (the royalty) and session musician agreements (the player, with no percentage, because the deal is a flat fee).
• A sample clearance adds a composition record only when it grants a share of the composition.
• Management agreements, NDAs, sync licenses, work-for-hire agreements, video releases and invoices produce no records.

Records come from the agreement's answers, not from anything you type separately, and the agreement is always the source of truth. A record from a draft or a pending agreement is marked as coming from a draft, not signed yet; a record from a signed agreement is solid. If the document's text was edited by hand, its records are marked unverified, so you know to check them against the signed copy. Records need the agreement to be linked to a track; an unlinked agreement has nowhere to put them.

The difference between the two sides matters more than it sounds; Master vs. composition explains it.

Exporting

• Per track. Each track's page has an ownership panel with Export splits: a CSV of that track's records.
• Everything. On Account, Export ownership data gives you one CSV of every record across your tracks, one row per track, party and side, with a plain-language data dictionary and a column saying whether each row comes from a signed, pending or draft agreement. It is free, and it is built to hand to a royalty or publishing system.
• Your whole account. Export my data, on the same page, downloads your agreements, profile, tracks and collaborators as one JSON file.

What happens next: the file downloads to your device straight away. Nothing is emailed, nothing changes in your account, and no credit is used.

Tracks: the catalog view

Tracks is one page per recording. Each shows the agreements that cover it, the collaborators named on them, the ownership panel, and the track's details. You can mark a track released and pull its details (ISRC, release date) from public music databases, flag a track as needing an agreement and set a reminder for it, or import your catalog by searching your artist name. The catalog audit does the same for a whole catalog at once and tells you which tracks have no paperwork.

Collaborators

Collaborators is your address book. Each collaborator's page lists the agreements you share with them. Their saved details, including PRO and IPI where you have them, fill into a form with one tap when you name them on a new agreement.

If something goes wrong: if a signed agreement's records look wrong, check the agreement's answers first, since the records are derived from them; then see Troubleshooting.