Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Actually, the benefits can vary greatly depending on the type of person that you are.   What is usually done by publishing companies is that they, legally, become the owner of the songs.  The only right remaining yours is the right to get paid and the right to have your name listed as the writer.  Other than that, the pubco is, in legal fact, the owner of all the rights.  

How on earth do they get writers to go for this?  Easy: the writers have no idea how much their songs are generating and how much the writer might be generating that he is never and will never see and so the publishing company offers the writer cash.  Of course the writer is shocked and pleased, so he goes for the deal, not knowing or imagining that he is ---(check it out) AT THE VERY LEAST  earning twice the amount he is getting.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kent Sandvik 
  To: Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 5:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [Logic_Cafe] music publishing biz


  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


   

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