Mazufa offers universities, conservatoires and music schools free guest sessions and teaching materials on the working side of recorded music: rights, metadata, releasing and royalties. Students who are ready can put out a first release with a person reviewing every step. Nothing financial is asked in return.
Guest sessions
A guest session is a talk or workshop of one to three hours, in person where travel allows and otherwise online, in Arabic or English. It is built with the teaching staff around what the students are working on, and it uses real cases rather than slides about theory.
Sessions are open to any level, from first-year students to graduating classes and faculty. Where a course wants more than one session, we plan a short series so that each session builds on the previous one.
- Rights: who owns a recording, who owns a song, and what a split sheet is for.
- Metadata: ISRC and UPC codes, credits, Arabic names in stores, and why wrong data costs money.
- Releasing: timelines, store requirements, pre-release checks and what a distributor actually does.
- Royalties: the income streams of a recording, which bodies collect them, and how to read a statement.
Materials
Every session leaves the institution with materials it can keep and reuse: slide decks, worked examples, a glossary in Arabic and English, checklists for a first release, and sample agreements with the clauses explained in plain words. Materials are given under a licence that lets the institution copy and adapt them for teaching, with attribution to Mazufa.
The materials are drawn from the Mazufa Academy lessons and the guides on this site, updated for each session with the questions students actually ask.
Student release programme
A student with a finished recording can put it out through the student release programme. The student keeps all rights in the recording and the song. A person at Mazufa reviews the metadata, the credits, the artwork and the audio specification before anything is sent to stores, and explains every correction so that the student can do it alone next time.
The terms are the same as for any artist Mazufa distributes: no upload fee, no subscription, no per-release fee; the revenue share is set out in your written agreement. A student who later prefers another distributor leaves with their recordings, codes and data, following the published switching guide. The institution is not a party to the agreement and carries no obligation.
How an institution requests a session
Use the form on this page. Tell us the institution, the city, your role, and roughly what the students are working on. A person replies by e-mail to agree the topic, the format and a date. There is no minimum group size and no fee.
What Mazufa asks in return
Nothing financial. No fee, no sponsorship, no recruitment of students, and no obligation on the institution or on any student to distribute through Mazufa. What we ask is attribution: that the materials carry the Mazufa name when reused, and that the institution lists the session in its programme or on its site so that other institutions can find it.
We may ask to mention the institution's name on this page as a past host. That mention is removed on request.
Questions
Is there any cost to the institution or to students?
No. Sessions and materials are free, and nothing financial is asked in return. The only request is attribution when materials are reused.
Do students have to release through Mazufa?
No. The student release programme is an option, not a condition. A student can use any distributor and still attend sessions and use the materials.
Can a session be held online or in English?
Yes. Sessions are in Arabic or English, in person where travel allows and otherwise online, and are planned with the teaching staff.