Publishing Companies / Pros & Cons / What do you look for?
I'm curious to find some perspective on Publishing Companies.
It has been suggested to me to consider moving into that direction but I'm not well versed enough on this topic to consider it seriously.
As a performing artist or songwriter what do you look for in a publishing company?
5/26/2008 11:02:05 AM
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5/27/2008 10:09:31 AM
If you are publishing your own music, why wouldn't you just join ASCAP and establish your own publishing company? By giving up publishing rights you're throwing away potential money.
5/27/2008 7:03:27 PM
That's kind of a different topic Riff.
ASCAP and the like are more for monitoring services for mechanical royalties. Their position is pretty much after the fact of making music with your works, not before.
5/27/2008 7:46:40 PM
You're missing the point. ASCAP only provides the tracking of use for royalties. YOU can be the publisher of the music. THe publisher receives the largest portion of royalties. Songwriter, mechanicals and copyright holder split the same royalty percentage a publisher takes. Many artists sign over their publishing rights not fully understanding this. Many artists today are the publishers of their own music. The mistake they make is thinking that a publisher is also going to provide the promotional aspect. Not always the case.
5/27/2008 10:19:21 PM
I started Gray Moose publishing in 1995 and have published several compilations under it. Mine as well as a few others.
5/27/2008 10:20:13 PM
So why did those few others use you as their publisher instead of just doing what you did on your own?
Do you own a percentage of their rights?
I'm asking because I really don't know why someone would choose to be a publisher for someone other than themselves.
This is the meaning of my post.
5/27/2008 11:20:21 PM
Juice, you should check out Pump Audio. They are an online Publishing Company for Indie artists. They take a big cut (50%) but it's non exclusive so you can get out anytime you want. Good people too. I can't imagine doing all that stuff on your own. Publishing companies have the ability to get your stuff in the ears of people you would otherwise never connect with.
5/28/2008 9:16:16 AM
The others that let me be there publisher were too young and inexperienced to do it them selves. Also I dedicated a lot of time to workin gon their sound in the studio so this was my way of potentially getting paid out of it. In the few cases nothing went on to happen so it didn't matter.
I'd definitely research it if I were you. protect yourself. and set yourself incase you are succesful.
5/28/2008 11:30:20 AM
I'm going to check thewm out Melvin.
But just in case I wasn't very clear in my initial post.
It has been suggested to me to consider "Being" a publisher not looking for one. Does that help to answer my question?
You see with these songpulls I've been getting contacted from sources I never would have ever thought would even bother. For instance the Newspaper which I did nothing to get their attention. Also the casting director for Jingles contacted me even before he knew about the Actual Songpull website.
I've also been being monitored by some trying to get a show contract with the A&E channel since back in December to do a show about songwriting very similar to manner I've been doing my songpulls. It kept going on and off the table for one reason or another and apparently Jingles may have gotten the lead.
Either way I'm really not doing much for this kind of attention but it appears people are finding my website and taking notice.
Had the suggestion not come from an attorney that represents musical artists currently I never would have even given it a thought.
Just looking for some perspective is all.
5/28/2008 11:55:36 AM
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