Publishing Contracts

5 December 2004

see also((Contracts%

When the artist signs a contract with the label, sometimes a
separate contract
is drawn up assigning copyright to the label. In normal
music, usually the artist retains the composition and the label retains the sound
recording. Sometimes you assign all your copyright to the label or split it with
the label. Sometimes a big label can do very aggressive money making things with
that copyright (like use it as a theme song to sell hamburgers with) and its a
good idea to let them play with it (or not), sometimes they just want everything
out of you they can get. In most underground label situations, the label just
collects all the money it can get and gives the artist a much higher cut of the
actual sale price of the record (Artist Royalty). Often, no-one is really trying
to collect money fromBMI ASCAP#RoyaltyOrganizationsetc. because they figure there just isn't any
money there. But there often is, primarily because of european airplay.

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