This is someone I've written a couple of songs with, and we have not published them. It's still an open question whether we will try to find a publisher or do it ourselves. I'm just thinking ahead.

I noticed that for his self-published CD, he registered them with ASCAP as writer only. It seems to me that if we *wanted* to co-publish our songs, he'd need to be an ASCAP publisher as well (since I'm BMI and can't handle his writer rights through them and my own BMI publishing company).

If, in the future, we were to interest a publisher, obviously it wouldn't be an issue; but if, in the future, we were able to find a placement for the song and wanted to publish it, I would think he'd need to be registered as as ASCAP publisher.

I was just surprised that he was able to register songs with ASCAP as a writer only, from his CD. So, my question was really to get a better understanding of what that means (and whether it was even advisable or not!)

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