Music rights are a type of copyright – a legal term that identifies ownership of specific rights over original creative works like songs and albums, literary works, movies or software. In particular, music rights refer to all legally-binding economic rights vesting, under any laws, music recording artists, songwriters, music composers, publishers and/or other music copyright holders on a song.
Songs, their music and lyrics, are creative works that are protected by copyrights. This is the reason why rights owners are entitled to royalties when their assets are being used.