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NOTES TO SPECIMEN PUBLISHING AGREEMENTPublishing Agreement • June 8th, 2007
A Publishing or Song-writing Agreement is the document by which a songwriter assigns the copyright in his compositions to a music publisher in exchange for royalties and, in appropriate cases, an advance against those royalties. Traditionally music publishers acted in much the same way as book publishers and printed and sold copies of the compositions in the form of sheet music. However with the coming of the gramophone record and the advent of mechanical royalties (the licence fee charged by the owner of the copyright in a musical composition for the right to reproduce that composition “mechanically” on a record) arranging for compositions to be recorded and collecting these monies became the main work of most publishers. Then came film and television and publishers began to seek new sources of income from allowing the compositions, which they controlled to be used in synchronisation with moving images (“syncs”) for inclusion in film and television programmes and in advertising. Now t
