Hi Night Shift,

Yes you have it right, If you are offered any work , I would say try to hold on to the copyright , I have always done that, with original stuff.

In many cases the company who commissions the jingle want you to parody something that was a hit. and in that case the publisher has to agree to a one off fee, however that's not the end of it Jimmy Webs song" Up Up And Away" was used in a commercial for Pan American, not on T.V. but it was used for several years from Airports, and Sales Conventions,

Jim had no idea it was being used because the Publisher held onto the royalty’s owed to Jim, and he is not obliged to tell the writer what is happening to his music, as he has been assigned the rights. anyhow Jim got in touch and received a long over due check running into 500, 000 dollars.

So a jingle can be a copyrighted work, I would say all jingles would be copyrighted because we had one in the U.K. that took off as a single , by Jon Bonjovi .

So a jingle can go on to be a Chart Hit

Have been working at E.M.I. Hayes U.K. in many departments starting as Tea Boy and worked through to A and R, New Artist Management,
Co Writing , with Boy Bands, and some solo acts
I have always played in bands,

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