BMI,ASCAP,Publishing question!!

This is a horrible thread. First of all, if you are selling a Hip-Hop beat to a label, more likely you will not have any copyright or ownership. That completely gets signed over because you sell the beat to the label or artist. After the song is created that artist has ownership and copyright. If it is a R&B or other genres where you are actually are writing music for the beat, you would sell the beat to the artist and he and you would negotiate how much of the publishing you will get. Finally, all you need to do is sign up with BMI or ascap as a writer. You will not be the publisher, the artist will have their own publisher for the song. Understand, once the artist does the song, it becomes its own copyrighted song. Publishing is for writers of songs, lyrics or actual music. A lot of stuff that everyone in this thread are talking about is if you were the artist, group, or band.
 
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Another thing to keep in mind is what genres of music each PRO represents. They both represent most genres but BMI also represents rap/hiphop and edm and ASCAP does not (at least they don't focus on those). So if a business is buying a music license and they want to use either of those two genres, they would most likely pay BMI because they represent a larger catalog of those two genres.

ASCAP: CONCERT MUSIC, COUNTRY, FILM & TV, JAZZ, LATIN, MUSICAL THEATRE, POP/ROCK, RHYTHM & SOUL
BMI: BLUES, CHRISTIAN, CLASSICAL, COUNTRY, DANCE, FILM & TV, GOSPEL, INDIE, JAZZ, LATIN, POP, R&B/HIPHOP, ROCK, THEATRE

Also I don't know where some of these people got their info from but you can join as a writer and publisher at BMI also.
 
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