From the course: Music Law: Recording, Management, Rights, and Performance Contracts
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Publishing
From the course: Music Law: Recording, Management, Rights, and Performance Contracts
Publishing
- Music publishing contracts are made between music publishers and songwriters. Typically, the songwriter transfers the song copyright or a co-ownership interest to the music publisher, who in return agrees to promote the songs and administer the collection of payments from companies using the songs. The publisher keeps a percentage of the total song income, typically 25%. Some music publishers enter into arrangements where they don't own the song copyright but just administer it, known as administration deals, and in which the administrator receives a fee of 10 to 20%. At the heart of a publishing contract is the song copyright, one of two types of copyrights associated with music. The other is the sound recording copyright, which is acquired by a record label under a recording agreement. The owner of the song copyright is entitled to get paid whenever copies are made of the song, whenever it is played on the radio, downloaded from the internet, covered by another musician, or used…
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