Marc's exactly right there. A cowriter and I had a song which I had written, and here I'm being generous, 90%. He did a recording of it, had it printed up a few copies and didn't even mention my name on it. He was planning to release it with a large run of cds. When I insisted that my publishing info had to be on the cd, he actually said something to the effect that he'd only have to print my last name on it. This, by the way, came out of nowhere, I have no idea why he was doing this. So I opened a new publishing company and registered it with ASCAP...Mike Dunbar Music LOL, the guy had to print my full name on the cd.

So, rather than fight him any more than that, I just simply let it go and started writing more, and better, songs...and I stopped cowriting with the guy. That's pretty much what Marc is suggesting.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

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