MBU 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bee Gees, Green Day, Billy Joel
27 Feb 2017
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Co-publishing, administration, and joint ventures | february 15. When the songwriter becomes a copyright owner, they own a % of the copyright and is now known as a co-publisher. For our purposes, (cid:449)e"ll (cid:271)ase it o(cid:374) 50% of the pu(cid:271)lisher"s share, but it could be any. The songwriter retains their share songwriter will make more money. 5 major circumstances that will make the publisher want the songwriter(s) to do a co-publishing agreement (or that give the songwriter the leverage to do so): a songwriter with an exclusive songwriter/pub k is ending. Songwriter has had a number of hits during the original term/ options and their publisher wants to resign them. The publisher now wants to sign them to a songwriter/publishing deal: a songwriter/artist that wants to sign has the potential to be signed to a major recording deal (competition between pub co and big label)
