What do publishers do?

- At the top of the lesson we talked about who the players are in the music publishing world. We talked about songwriters and copyrights. We talked about the sources of publishing income, and who the licensees of those songs are. Now I wanna spend a little bit more time talking about what it is those music publishers can do for you. The main job of a music publisher is to help secure licensing opportunities for your copyrights. All of the top publishers have a staff of professional managers who go out and pitch your music to potential licensees. Those managers will have established relationships with all the record company A&R executives, the top producers, recording artists and mangers. Those publishing mangers make it a point to know what artists are recording, and what type of material they might be looking for. After your songs have been recorded and released, a great publisher will try to secure commitments from other recording artists and producers to cover your songs on future…