The Parking Lot — What Infrastructure Means
Silvia Passiflora, Editor | Scriptaluna
March 25, 2026
Did you know you can collect royalties every time you perform your own songs?
Most independent artists don't. It's not lack of talent, it's that the system wasn't designed to announce itself.
I met a songwriter in a parking lot recently. Long conversation — cars coming and going, hot asphalt, neither of us moving. He had a catalog, years in, a performing rights organization membership. When the word "infrastructure" came up, he meant social media. Playlists. Networking. Reach.
But it's not what I mean. And I won't say metadata — people have already asked me to just do it for them. Someone can work alongside you, but no one can know your catalog the way you do. They'll get something wrong and you paid them for it. Every update, every correction, every new release — back to them, back to their calendar. You are the metadata. It just needs to be transferred into a few databases.
No harder than entering your PIN code to a debit card. Except instead of taking money out, you're putting something in that will outlast you.
I've never found advice about this that came from inside it — not above it. That's the gap Scriptaluna was built to fill.
The songwriter in the parking lot isn't rare. He's the majority.
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