Category Archives: Songs/Publishing/Copyright
Who Writes The Songs? Why Some Bands Are Singing The Blues
It’s a sad reality that far too many bands are remiss when it comes to housekeeping, and one of the things that has come back to haunt more than a few groups and former mates is an unfortunate propensity for untidiness when it comes to song material written by members. (more…)
Music Publishers and the New Songwriter
In the earlier days of the music industry, few performing and recording acts wrote their own material. Thus, publishers were an important source of songs for artists and an attractive home for the non-performing writer.
Today, many publishers have broadened aspirations, assuming roles that in former times were not typically their domain. (more…)
Going The Publisher Route With Your Songs
Some songwriters are gung ho about getting a music publisher on board, without affording much thought to the pros and cons. Others are trepidatious. Still others are dead set against the idea. Whatever the case, the degree to which publishing can and should be important to an artist-writer’s long-term financial well-being cannot be overstated. Neither can the ramifications of failing to understand the hows and whys of it. (more…)
Renaming Your Songs–Retitling Can Be The Indie Artist’s Friend
I wrote a blog a couple of years back (Giving Your Song Multiple Personalities) about the topic of song retitling. The practice of giving a song two or more names has been going on for a long time and has always got a bad rap from some quarters in this industry. If anything, the negative dialogue has only gotten shriller in recent years, so I thought it a good time to revisit the subject and (more…)
Giving Your Song Multiple Personalities
If you’re a songwriter, there are occasions where it might make sense to give an original song a second name or even create a second variation of the song. Here’s one to ponder.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you don’t have a publisher (more…)
