Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

In a message dated 4/5/07 5:23:37 PM, sandvik@... writes:
> 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.
> 

I think you are mixing up two different things. One thing is that you need to 
have a business license to have a publishing company (according to Braheny's 
book), in order to collect the publishing part of the royalties. Another thing 
is what kind of company - sole proprietorship, partnership, or LLC (limited 
liability corporation). Thats the part about them being able to sue you or not. 
Yes, I agree its fairly far fetched that someone would sue (although I think 
there were some lawsuit's over Ozzy's "Suicide Solution" song, after a kid 
committed suicide after listening to it repeatedly.)

Can you get some confirmation about BMI not requiring a DBA ("doing business 
as") company and still giving you 200% of the writer's commissions (100% for 
writer and 100% for publishing company)? I am writing to them now to see if 
they can explain.

By the way, there are a lot of good copyright tips from BMI on this page (but 
they don't answer this question about the publishing company).
http://www.bmi.com/career/entry/533748


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