Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

The only benefit I see of starting your own private publishing company
is to make it an incorporation in order to avoid personal liability.
I'm  not sure how often someone is sued for publishing rights, but for
small releases I think something like this is a very minimal risk.

So just register at ASCAP or BMI as a private person with no
publishing company, I don't know ASCAP but with BMI it's just fine.

If you want to release records as a label, yes then it's good to start
a small business, this for the tax ID, getting the ISRC codes, bank
account numbers and all the other things needed when running a label.
Many online distributors also only deal with labels, not unsigned
artists, unless you use TuneCore/CD-Baby and so on.

Also, the more you dive into business work, the less time you have for
music, so that's an issue also to take into account. Actually, I would
recommend learning as much as possible about marketing and basic
business practices for any musician, as it opens up the eyes about how
the music world really operates -- it puts things into right
perspective.

--Kent