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Message: [QUOTE="Black Panther, post: 11259, member: 3"] These royalties are paid out when a performance rights organization sends money in correspondence to song ownership regarding the writer's share and the publisher's share. That's because in the context of music publishing copyrights a song consists of two parts, which are the writer's share and the publisher's share. If an artist writes their own music and releases it without being affiliated with any music publishing company except their own. It means that an artist in question will be entitled to both the writer's share and the publisher's share income. But if an artist has a deal with a music publishing company e.g. a co-publishing agreement this means that artist will be entitled to receive all their income from a writer's share perspective and 50% of their publisher's share because the other half of the publisher's share would go to a music publishing company. [/QUOTE]