Music publishing and administration are the backbones of our firm’s practice.  We have represented many publishers and songwriters with regard to almost every aspect of their business lives, from initial song splits, co-writer indemnity agreements, publishing, co-publishing, catalog marketing, valuation, due-diligence, financing and sales.  There is no deal too creative or complex for our team.  We have been successful in establishing new and innovative deals throughout our career which range from full reversions, partial reversions to loan and lending agreements in exchange for copyrights or a security interest in them.

Our music publishing clients have sold in excess of 300 million units worldwide and counting.  We have experience in foreign sub-pub agreements in all territories of the world and our firm has regular attendance year at MIDEM, the international music and publishing conference held each year in Cannes, France.

If you are a songwriter and you own part of your copyrights now, you are publisher.  Approximately 35 years after you assign your copyrights, you will retain the rights to any exploited and assigned (in general) copyrights, so you should educate yourself now on publisher’s rights.  We are involved in educating our songwriters and publishers in areas that are particularly relevant to their growth and success.  We help some songwriter’s with agreed upon introductions and have germinated a few #1’s through various introductions through our firm.  Our expertise in publishing extends to other areas of the world as we are actively involved in subpublishing agreements, direct affiliations and foreign enforcements.

Below are some examples of the work that the lawyers within the firm have done in this area:

• songwriter representation agreements
• subpublishing agreements
• quit-claim reassignments
• termination of transfers reassignment strategies and estate planning implementation
• placement and pitching agreements
• catalog valuations
• catalog marketing
• catalog sales
• catalog due diligence
• publisher desktop and full audits
• performance money comparisons
• collective record label audits for mechanical and dpd sales
• evaluations of marital dissolution agreements and royalty splits
• assistance with settlements and release of royalties held due to demand letters
• assistance with evaluating class action opt-in or opt-out decisions
• assistance with calculation of economic damages in infringement actions

Our songwriter, publisher and music administration clients keep our firm on the front lines of the music publishing and digital rights business each day.