What to enter in ASCAP/BMI for NE production music.

[joshrose]

I’ve heard conflicting things about what to do in ascap with my NE stuff. Some people have told me not to enter anything at all, and that the library will take care of it. I’ve been told most libraries won’t like it if your songs are in your ascap. Others have told me to always enter my songs in ascap.

Some have said to even enter all the retitles myself, and don’t assume the library will do it.

I’m not sure. Any help is appreciated.

[Desire_Inspires]

Don’t enter in anything.

[Michael Nickolas]

I disagree. If you are shopping your music yourself or via RF, I say to register your original titles under your own publishing company.

[wilx2]

CM, one of the better NE libraries, wants to see that you’ve registered a title with your PRO before they will accept it. But that’s just them.

[Advice]

It’s fine to register your works with your PRO under original title and publisher if you are pitching them through NE/RT libraries and/or direct to sup. NE/RT libraries almost always will create another registration with the re-title and themselves as the publisher.

If you are submitting to exclusive libraries, I would not do these registrations since it can be a pain for them to change the registration, especially if they maintain the original title.

All this being said, there is no real advantage to registering your tracks until you have a good reason such as being asked to by that one library mentioned earlier, having a REAL potential placement, etc. PRO’s look back 6 months or more on placements.

HTH 😀

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