Rights & Services
Publishing Administration
Publishing administration registers your compositions worldwide and collects their royalties for you, without taking ownership of your songs.
Where this sits
Publishing Administration
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
Publishing administration is the service that registers your compositions worldwide and collects their publishing royalties for you, without taking ownership of your songs. It's the composition-side equivalent of what distribution does for recordings.
Good to know
Publishing Administration: common questions
- Does a publishing administrator own my songs?
- No. Administration registers and collects on your behalf without acquiring copyright; you keep your songs.
- Do I still need a distributor?
- Usually yes. Administration covers the composition (publishing) side; a distributor covers the recording (master) side. Notes does both.
- Can a publisher use Notes to collect the publisher's share?
- Yes. A publisher can run global administration through Notes at catalog scale, registering compositions and collecting the publisher's share of performance and mechanical royalties worldwide, with per-writer reporting and no copyright or percentage taken.
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