Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

GAmoore@... wrote:
> I setup a Broadjam account and listed your name as the reference, Andy. By 
> the way, is it time to join BMI or ASCAP if you are going to start selling 
> stuff?
> 

Unless youve got a head for the business side of it.. BMI/ASCAP can be a 
pain.. To start you have to be publishing your work to even submit it 
there. Meaning you either have to be dealing with a publishing company 
or you need to go setup a new bank account as a business and become a 
publisher (or a DBA kinda thing as well)..  I never could get anyone at 
ASCAP to tell me how to properly go about this (even though they claim 
to have tons of advisors and help for their 'artists') and gave up.

The best, and first, thing you want to do now is simply to get your work 
copywritten with the Government's copyright office. Just download a 
simple PDF, send em a copy of your entire album (that saves you from 
paying $30 for EACH song, just register it as an entire work and theyre 
all covered), and a $30 fee (might have gone up last time I put anything 
out was 3 years ago).. Then its on record and you officially own the 
recordings to do whatever you wish. You can worry about the BMI/ASCAP 
side of publishing once you start recieving airplay and people wanting 
to perform your material as this is really all that those companies do 
is monitor the numbers on that stuff..

I dont believe they account for anything like album sales which is 
probably what most of us 'non-major' folks will be doing with our wares 
around at shows and such..


-- 
Chris

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