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Message: [QUOTE="Black Panther, post: 12345, member: 3"] A co-publishing agreement means you contractually assign 50% of your publishing copyright ownership to a music publishing company. Consequently, as a songwriter, you keep 100% of your songwriter's share whilst the other 50% of your publisher's share goes to the music publishing company. Therefore when it's all said and done as a songwriter you will generally be eligible to receive 75% of the overall publishing royalties income derived from the following sources: [LIST] [*]mechanical royalty income (e.g. CDs, Vinyl, or sometimes Digital Downloads depending on the contract signed with the record label) [*]print income royalty income (i.e. sheet music) [*]synchronization royalty income (otherwise known as "sync royalties") [*]public performance royalty income (e.g radio, television broadcast, film, nightclubs, and concerts) [/LIST] N.B., When it comes to music publishing copyrights there are two aspects worthy to remember and those are the songwriter's share & the publisher's share. This is why songwriters usually receive 75% of the gross income generated by the music publishing copyright whilst the music publishing company is paid 25% of the gross income generated from the music publishing copyright. For example, 150 of 200 = 75% gross income from music publishing royalties. Furthermore, since music co-publishing deals are jointly owned between the songwriter and the music publishing company that means the music compositions will usually be accompanied by the copyright symbol C © showing that the music publishing copyright is owned by two entities. By the way, don't confuse this with the copyright symbol P ℗ which refers to the sound recording copyright (or the master recording copyright). [/QUOTE]

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