Music Business 101 - Publishing

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does that mean that youtube is payin' artists for the music videos that it plays of them?

No. YouTube is not synching the music to the video... the person who made the video is doing the synching.

(...but should YouTube be paying "public performance royalties"? what do you think? should they or not?)
 
does anybody get paid "publishing" on mixtapes (where copyright infringement runs rampant)?

if the mixtapes are unauthorized, as you have pointed out by saying that "infringement runs rampant", then naturally, nobody is getting paid other than the person who made the mixtape...

...but if it is a legally made compilation, then everybody is getting paid unless they waived their right to payment.
 
so...

giving up your "publishing" is the same thing as giving up your "copyright"...right?

Without getting into the discussion of whether it is accurate terminology or not, when someone refers to "giving up your publishing" they are generally talking about signing away the full or partial copyright ownership in your composition.

...and keep in mind that there is a "writers share" of the composition and a "publishers share" of the copyright of the composition... 50%/50%
 
No. YouTube is not synching the music to the video... the person who made the video is doing the synching.

(...but should YouTube be paying "public performance royalties"? what do you think? should they or not?)

They are paying public performance royalties - at least to ASCAP - in an agreement reached earlier this year I believe.
 
in 99.999999999999999999% of all cases, the engineer (simply as "the person that actually hits record") does not own anything. The engineer is a person hired to record your music. So, unless you have worked out some sort of deal with an engineer where instead of paying him for his time, you give him a piece of the master, he would typically not have any ownership in anything.

good post!

that is EXACTLY what i wanted to know.

:D
 
They are paying public performance royalties - at least to ASCAP - in an agreement reached earlier this year I believe.

I really just posed the question to have people think and try to apply things they learned here...

(i.e., "well, YouTube is not doing the synching... but can you think of some other thing we talked about here that may apply to YouTube?")
 
would one be able to have more than one publishing company at a time? for example, lets say you are a registered writer and also own your own publishing company...and somebody approaches you and wants you to be part owner of their publishing company...is this allowed?
 
in 99.999999999999999999% of all cases, the engineer (simply as "the person that actually hits record") does not own anything. The engineer is a person hired to record your music. So, unless you have worked out some sort of deal with an engineer where instead of paying him for his time, you give him a piece of the master, he would typically not have any ownership in anything.

with that being said, what benefit is there in being a sound man in comparison to a producah?

producah's make more @ the end of the day?

no wonder the studios are shuttin' down!

nobody wanna be a sound man because da beetMan get paid more!

right?
 
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with that being said, what benefit is there in being a sound man in comparison to a producah?

You mean monetary benefit?

producah's make more @ the end of the day?

Sometimes. Depends on the situation.

no wonder the studios are shuttin' down!

Which studios are shutting down?

nobody wanna be a sound man because da beetMan get paid more!

right?

Why would you think that? They are two different jobs. Sometimes they are done by the same person. More often than not, in the real world they are done by two different people, who both know their craft well, and both enjoy what they do...my limited experiences.
 
with that being said, what benefit is there in being a sound man in comparison to a producah?

producah's make more @ the end of the day?

no wonder the studios are shuttin' down!

nobody wanna be a sound man because da beetMan get paid more!

right?


(in the most basic of terms...)


a "recording engineer" (not a "sound man"... That is the guy who works the board at live events) is theperson who actually sets up the mics and works the studio gear...

A "mix engineer" is the person who knows how to, well, make the sounds sound the way they are supposed to sound...

The "producer" (I think you made a typo in your post) is the person who directs how the song should sound...

The "songwriter" writes the song...

The "beat maker" makes a beat (by the way, this role barely exists anymore) which the "producer" would take and do the work to make it into a usable song, and a "songwriter" or "lyricist" would add the words...

The "singer" sings...

The "musicians" play their instruments...


...these roles can be held by multiple people, or they can be held by the same person...

They are different roles that require different skills...


...and none of your reasoning has anything to do with why studios are shutting down.... They are shutting down because as technology improves, there is less and less need for a big studio...

And to say "why be an engineer when you can be a producer?" is like saying "why be a portrait painter when you can design more efficient automobile engines?"--- they are 2 different things and you may only have the skill and ability for one (or, most likely, none... Because most people cannot do either)
 
why?

because they don't try?

Not because they don't try...

...because no matter how hard you try, you may not have the natural born ability to do something.

A person can practice and study all day every day, but that alone will not give someone the ability to sing like Mariah Carey or paint like van gaugh or discover the cure for cancer.

You have to "have it"... Not just "want it"...

Just because you *try* doesn't mean you'll be *good*...

But you'll never be *good* if you don't *try*.
 
who decides whether you have "it" or not?

You can't tell if someone is good or if the suck when you listen to them?

...and you've seen untalented people on American Idol auditions who worked their butts off all their lives? Right?

You have to have "talent" to begin with... Then you work hard to *cultivate* that talent.

You have to be "self aware" and be able to look at yourself objectively and know whether you are good or not.
 
so then out of everybody w/ cultivated talent, who decides which ones "make it" or not?


It all comes down to opportunity, luck, likability, professionalism and being in the right place at the right time.


If you are the best singer in the world, but only sing in your bedroom, then nobody will ever hear you and you'll never "make it"...

If you are the best singer in the world, but you are an unprofessional jerk, nobody will ever work with you and you can forget about "making it"...

If you are the best singer in the world, and you do everything right and everybody you meet loves you, you still need to be lucky enough to meet that one person you needs exactly what you do at the exact time you are on his mind in order to "make it"...

You need to be good at what you do and you have to be somebody that people want to work with and you have to be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time for it to happen.

It's as simple as that!
 
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