Originally Posted by niteshift
1)If you sign with a publisher, it's exclusive, and they take 50%.


Yes if it is a real deal then yes, it is exclusive. But it's not always 50/50. A good co-pub would be. But a first deal doesn't always work out that way. Alot of times with new writers the deal is more like they get 100% publishing, you get 100% writers. Which I suppose is 50/50, sort of. Only you don't retain ownership. Of course later on, there's an option to buy it back. But the reality is most publishers aren't giving out co-pubs to unproven people, and alot wont do it period. They may give you a deal, but a co-pub would be asking alot of a publisher for a first deal. Unless you were also an artist. Then it would only seem fair to 50/50 it, for songs you actualy cut.

Last edited by stevens119; 10/18/08 06:44 AM.