Publisher Scams - Music Publishing Companies - Watch out for BS!!

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https://twitter.com/lorenweisman/ http://geni.us/iBook Publisher Scams - Music Publishing Companies - Watch out for BS!! An LW Music Business Consultant, Speaker & Author Music Promotion Blog Video. I know there are a great deal of publishing scams out there. I also want to say right off the bat, I know both personally and indirectly about some amazing music publishing companies and music publishers who do right by their work and their representation of artists, their songs and their catalogs. Still, today, I was asked by an artist that I have been consulting for to review some information from a potential publishing deal. The deal was highway robbery, pathetic, abusive and flat out unprofessional. It was one of those publishing contracts coming from a two bit company and some one that knows the basic legalities of music publishing with little to no ability to both publish or license music on any kind of level. It is not that the contract was all that bad if it was a reputable publishing company or group that had that reputation, connections and success. But, no, this was some one that studied publishing music, copied a contract to make it seem like publishing your music with them had all these amazing opportunities and money just around the corner. The truth ends up revealing someone that uses this contract to gain long term control of as much music as possible to shop it through many of the same channels an independent artist can do very easily. The music business has changed and so has the publishing companies. If you sign a template contract with a record label that owns you but has no money to push you, it is right in the same ball park as signing away all your songs to someone who does not have the potential to place them at all. The best thing you can do is ask for the references. Ask to speak with other artists who have materials published with these people. As them how much they have made, how things have gone as well as the communication, the efforts, the results and the revenues. It sucks that you have to deal with the publisher scams that are out there, but if you ask the questions before you sign the contracts, raise the red flags before you give the green flags to letting people control your material and songs, you have that much better of a chance of not being taken for the fool or being taken like a fool. ———————— Loren Weisman ———————— Business Advisor, Speaker & Author Loren Weisman organizes, optimizes and implements individualized branding, marketing and content plans for start up and established businesses. Weisman is a managing partner and co founder of Leveraging Smart Inc. ****************************************­­­******** For more about Loren Weisman and his current projects, visit: http://lorenweisman.com/ ****************************************­­­******** For more on the Business and Entertainment Advisory Group, Leveraging Smart, visit: http://leveragingsmart.com/ ****************************************­­­******** For more info and to purchase Music Business for Dummies available in paperback and eBook, visit: http://musicbusinessfordummies.com/ ****************************************­­­******** For more info and to purchase The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business available in paperback, eBook or Audio Book, visit: http://artistsguide.net/ ****************************************­­­********