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What is a music publisher?
A music publisher is the artist’s royalty collector and artist’s copyright administrator. A publisher exploits your copyrights and collects and pays all your royalties (except for performance income). In the publishing contract, the publisher gets from the artist his rights’ ownership and administrative. A music publisher is basically a company that takes care of your music business, allowing you (the song writer/artist) to concentrate on your creative aspirations and goals. The artist’s strength generally lie in the creative domain, and the publisher’s specializes is administrating your catalogue, collecting royalty monies, plugging your songs, making copyright deals and paying you your royalties from all sources of income.
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