Types of deals
A publishing deal is an agreement between a music producer and a publishing company where the publisher will promote, license, and collect royalties for the music producer’s compositions. There are several types of publishing deals we will explore. Most notably, in modern times, are the co-publishing deal, the administration deal, being self-published, and the traditional publishing deal. Each of these scenarios has benefits and downsides attached to it. The upside and the downside will be specific to the producer and company practices.
Publishing deals will typically manifest in your life when you’re landing placements that have charted, or you have several single releases with signed artists. Record labels all have publishing arms that work in conjunction with their label partners, and it’s in the best interests of the record company to have its hand in each side of the copyright.
These can be advantageous for you as a composer or producer...