Creative development
Discovers and supports creators, develops repertoire and encourages new collaborations.
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Music Publishing
Helping musical works reach further and retain their value over time.
Music publishing is the professional work of developing, protecting, administering and creating opportunities for musical works and the rights attached to them. A music publisher works with composers, lyricists and other rightsholders so that their works are accurately documented, effectively represented and able to reach new uses and audiences.
The musical work is not the sound recording.
The musical work is the composition and, where applicable, its lyrics. The sound recording or master is one particular recorded performance of that work. The same work can have many different recordings, arrangements and cover versions.
The role of the music publisher
Works administration and data
Documents works, creators, shares, publishers, represented territories and identifiers.
Promotion and new opportunities
Presents works for recordings, commissions, audiovisual productions, theatre, video games and other uses.
Licensing
Negotiates and organises permissions in collaboration with creators and other relevant rightsholders.
Monitoring and protection
Monitors uses, identifies incomplete information and supports the accurate representation of works.
Income and international representation
Reviews rights information and works with sub-publishers and organisations in other territories.
Much more than songs.
Music publishing encompasses songs and instrumental music, classical and contemporary classical works, music for film, television, theatre and video games, protected arrangements of traditional music, and production music catalogues.
Why work with a music publisher?
Because a serious creative career requires more than registering works and receiving royalties. An active publisher can open doors, build professional relationships, find new uses, strengthen negotiations and give a work greater reach and a longer life.