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Songtrust
Publishing administration without selling your publishing.
Admin is not a pub deal. Do not confuse a 15% collection fee with ownership.
Songtrust (and similar admins) register your songs with PROs and mechanical societies worldwide and take a commission on what they collect. You keep the copyright. That is the correct default for most independents who are not being offered a real creative pub deal. It is not magic — garbage metadata in, garbage royalties out. Deliver splits, writer names as they appear on PRO records, and titles that match the DSP. A 50/50 pub deal is a different animal: they own or co-own the copyright for a term.
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Musical context, the business around it, and what to do next.
See also
- TePublishingThe composition copyright and the money it earns.Term · Rights
- TrThe MLCUS mechanicals on streaming and downloads. Register the works.Trade · Royalties
- TrASCAPUS performing-rights organization. Writer and publisher shares live here.Trade · Royalties
- TrBMIThe other major US PRO. Free to join as a writer.Trade · Royalties