# Organisation catalogue teams
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/work-together/org-catalogue-teams

An organisation's own catalogue of songs written to pitch out, held on a team it owns, with every writer credited and split equally per song.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Publishers and production houses write songs to send out, not for an artist on
their roster. Aden's roster is built around artists, so those songs had nowhere
to live: they belong to the organisation, not to any one act.

A catalogue is the answer. It is a team the organisation owns, holding the
writers as its members instead of an artist. Songs written for pitching land
there, and everything the product already does with a team, splits, royalties,
contracts, permissions, release plans, works on them unchanged.

## Splits [#splits]

The writers on a catalogue are credited on every song imported into it, split
equally. Four writers on the catalogue means 25% each, on composition, master,
mechanical, publishing and sync alike. Rounding goes to whoever ran the import
when they are one of the writers, so the totals a royalty run reads always come
to exactly 100.

That is the starting point, not the final word. Open any song's collaborators
and change the split, add a writer who was not on the catalogue, or remove one
who was not in the room. The per-song version is what counts from then on.

Only writers the organisation has **verified** can be seeded onto a catalogue.
A pending self-claim is someone asserting a publishing relationship, not a
credit the organisation has agreed to put on every song it owns.

## Using it [#using-it]

1. Go to **Import** in your organisation and open the **Own catalogue** tab.
2. Name the catalogue and choose the writers on it. The picker shows the split
   each of them will get.
3. Choose **Create catalogue**.
4. Choose **Import music** on the catalogue to bring the songs in from Dropbox,
   a spreadsheet or a Spotify playlist.

You can run more than one catalogue: per genre, per year, or per sub-label.

## Placing a song [#placing-a-song]

When a song is placed with an artist, it does not move. Link the receiving
artist's team to the track and the credit shows on both sides, with the
catalogue keeping the song and the splits it was written under.