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Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson
The industry has been structured that way since the beginning of ASCAP, the very first performance royalty collection agency. Writers wanted separate payment and publishers wanted a single collector. ASCAP is a membership organization (aka a union) while the others in the US are private corporations. Publishers do all of the record promotion outside of North America. A lot of people don't realize that we'd have never even heard of the Beatles had their manager not wrangled a co-publishing deal out of Dick James Music. Motown's income from Europe went up by something like five times after striking a similar deal with Carlin Music in London. That income exceed the American by quite a bit.
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Great history, Bob. But, again, not a lot to do with the question. You are talking about big publishing companies that are working a catalog. Meanwhile, I am wondering why it would be recommended or required to assign one's preexisting copyrights, in their entirety, to a self-owned "vanity publishing company" that has been established just to facilitate collection by the songwriter of the publisher half of performance royalties.
Does anyone have any thoughts on that question?
Best,
mightyduck