djghost215
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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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