Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

The publishing Guru...

3 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A music publishing mentor taught the speaker for 35 years about copyright law after the 1978 restructuring. She learned how copyright terminations and reversions work, and why registering songs correctly matters: mistakes cost money. Understanding these legal tools is essential for anyone in music publishing.

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took shape and started in the set in '78, um, and it completely restructured copyright law. Yes, it did. And so I always say I learned from the best. She was Quincy Jones' personal kind of publishing guru for 35 years, and she did everything for him in, in his publishing. And so I learned from her. I learned how to do terminations, what were terminations and reversions copyrights, the importance of making sure that songs are input properly. Because there, we can get into every mistake somebody could make along the way, but I want to make sure that everybody knows like, you know, the right way.