Music Publisher Responsibilites
Music publishers are those individuals or entities who release songs created by artists to the public for consumption, mostly for the purposes of profiting from the sale of these songs. Their major responsibilities include: mechanical royalties (in which money is paid to the publishers in exchange for the reproduction of a song onto a medium for playing it, from phonographs to CDs), foreign monies (securing the distribution of mechanical royalties overseas), licenses for synchronization (e.g. playing a song in a commercial), transcription (radio commercials), and print (sheet music), and the like. Music publishers also have the responsibility of registering copyrights for the music ...
