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Digital
TuneCore launches publishing admin service
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 3 November 2011
TuneCore, the US-based digital distributor for unsigned and self-releasing bands, has set up a new division that will help such artists also administrate their publishing interests.
The new TuneCore Songwriter Publishing Administration Service, headed by former Bug Music EVP Jamie Purpora, will help its artists manage their relationships with the publishing royalty collecting societies and seek other licensing deal, including syncs, presumably putting them in a similar territory to UK-based Sentric Music.
The new service will initially be open to artists already using TuneCore to distribute their recordings to digital music services, but will eventually be available as a stand alone offer. A few hundred songwriters are already using the publishing admin service, including one celebrity client, Mr Trent Reznor.
Confirming that, having used TuneCore to distribute his recordings for six years he has now signed up to the company’s publishing service, Reznor wrote this week: “When TuneCore reached out to tell me about their new big idea – adding transparency and straightforwardness to the murky waters of publishing administration (which to me is a world as boring and convoluted as it sounds) – I was very interested. If they could pull off what they did with distribution on the publishing administration side of things, this could be a pretty big deal – it could be another important tool that further empowers the musician/songwriter directly”.
