DON'T Register Your Music with ASCAP or BMI Until You've DONE THIS!

It's easy to jump the gun on registering your songs with a PRO, but our Music Library CEO guest explains why you might not want to do that right away in this short clip from an episode of TAXI TV!
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[@loveforceinternationalpubl8147]

Total BS. Register your songs because then you fix your ownership percentages and if someone picks it up they have to send BMI the contract to prove they own the percentage they have signed to you. The extra work of registering done by the publisher is part of what they are supposed to do!

[@BrokeTheGamer]

This is terrible information.

[@shapeshifter1633]

A couple of things. You can register your songs as a composer and your own publisher in one swoop without any additional fees on BMI. You can also change out publishers anytime on you pro as long as the agreed term is finished. So I'm not really understanding why it is such a big deal for the artist to protect themselves and collect all the royalties they can. If a library decides to go with your song which is a huge "what if", It's not really worth it for the artist to hold their breath. And considering they are going to pay the artist a lot less than they would pay a major artist, they can work for it.

[@EndSimulation]

No! Always register with your PRO first (then SXE, MLC, Songtrust). If you get a pub deal they will send the info to the PRO for the new publishing split that you agreed to with them. The publisher will take care of that! Have licensed many things in this way. If you don't register it then you could be missing out on potential $, not showing that you are legit if they look at your registrations first, & risking theft of your material.

[@JilleneLuce]

After many incidents where my music and or lyrics were stolen - I disagree with this. Right now even, an artist did a cover of a song I collaborated on years ago and released the song under a different title and wrong names. I'm glad I registered it at SUISA, (its like the BMI of Switzerland) so we are protected.

[@jsway2743]

Thank you for the correction, this explains a lot. I was taught to register 1stafter copywriting the music in DC.I will never do that again. My PRO and had issues because the never sent my royalties owed to me.

[@christopheralan7600]

There should have been more context to this video. If I understand you correctly this advice is only relevant if you’re trying to pitch your unreleased song for use on television or similar media... and even then the implications aren’t thoroughly called out. And who is this guest? What is their background? Why should we take their advice if we don’t even know their name?

[@l.harrison9725]

Thx for this short post, came in handy when I was reviewing my “ancient” BMI account, checking out MLC,. I also love having Composer Catalog. ( & TAXI) as resources. 🤗

[@latotheukrecording9220]

I learned this in the late 70s that everything is going to be on the Internet which is your way of putting your music in through your PR oh because sometimes it gets confused and they don’t have all the originals so that’s helping them keep your paper trail

[@uoyebut2151]

EXAMPLE: Let's say a song YOU write a song and then YOU make a BEAT to YOUR OWN SONG and you copyright both of those works together. This proves that you are the original creator of that WORK. Now you decide to place that work on FB, IG, KZbin, etc. If that WORK is not PUBLISHED, by law anybody can basically steal your ideal/song and remake/remix that WORK. WHY? Because it's an unpublished work. You own it but who's to say 1 of your friends or family members didn't help you create the Work. You need more than a copyright article to protect YOU. Having your own PUB company is your life insurance plan for all your Materials.But now if you copyright and then Transfer your own Copyright Articles over to YOUR OWN PUB COMPANY.....NO 1 CAN TOUCH YOUR AND IT IS FULLY PROTECTED. THEN YOU CAN FLOOD ANY AND ALL SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS WITH YOUR WORKS. If it's not Published you really won't be able to capitalize or even have that worked placed with outlets like TIDAL, SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC and so forth. Having your own pub company gives you complete total control. IT took me about 15 years to learn this through blood sweat and tears, 6 months of dealing with an Ex Product Manager that used to work for Universal/SRC Records to help me to pull it together. It's a grimey ass puzzle. Having your own PUB. Company makes You a music publisher and add's MUSCLE to your Company. Don't believe me........Google it. Stop shopping for PUB deals and Become the Deal-er. GSAC MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is here.

[@wendolynnlanders8232]

Thanks for the clarification. I had been thinking that we were supposed to register our works with the ASCAP/BMI first.

[@bjarnyg]

so what you're saying is that you should NOT register your music when the deal is exclusive, but DO register it if it's non-exclusive?

[@musictomotion]

My understanding from working with libraries is that they register it for you on your behalf and you get 100% of writers in most cases, the publisher gets 100% of publishing.

[@coleadamsmusic]

Thank you!! I was just wondering about this and your video showed up on my feed. ☺️🙏🙌

[@DeanAnderson_dean_a_plus]

Is it me or does his house remind me of Michael's from GTA V?

[@BornIntoWealth]

what if you're your own publishing company?

[@songsbyvoneeofficial2353]

This is crazy. I was taught when I first started writing that I need to register all my music with a PRO so after I would finish writing and getting my songs demoed I would register the song. Now 400+ songs/instrumentals in I hear this saying not to. So confused right now. Not to mention most of the licensing opportunities I've submitted to required that the song be registered with a PRO (they would just add their initials or name in front of the original) so I am totally confused.

[@Notnecessarytokeeprn]

This is the best. I love the simplicity of this.

[@iwxo]

There should have been some disclaimer in the beginning discussing specifically why not to register your work with Ascap and bmi once the song is finished. Because it looks like this is solely for tv and film. Which is of course what most artist’s hope to do at some point.

[@ay-kae]

i only have 176,000 plays on spotify but only a 3 songs that have over 20-30k streams.. is it even worth the time of registering my works right now? so far i have been collecting minor payments from my distributor. at what point do i need to make sure im signed up for BMI, song trust, and sound exchange?