Damsel in Distress...mentally!

[AnomalyJonez]

What is the name of your state? California.

Need advice on Songwriting and publishing contracts between singer/songwriters and music producers as pertaining to digital distribution and online sales, licensing and royalties.

I am a homemade internet recording.
I download instrumental music created by other artist like myself from all over the world from sites like
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All creative common license sites that offer free music download’s from composers and producers all over the world.

I write and record lyrics to these songs and post them for free downloads for the most part.
I often times post my material as acapellas and allow downloads. I have over a thousand or so downloads of my acapellas and many producers contact with the intent to ‘release’ a remixed version of my pella to their music.

Recently I have embarked on a plan to record and release a digital album for public download for a price on site like Amazon, Itune using TuneCore.

I decided to create my own publishing company and register it under a DBA with BMI.

I’ve done a lot of research however I am not sure of the following issues:

Copyright

As far as copyright ownership, do I registers the songs with both
the producer and I as owners?​

Can I register my acapellas that I have created by themselves?​

Contracts

Is it possible to do simple 50/50 between me and the producers, such as a songwriters agreement, minus the fees associated with releasing the album and Administrative Deal using my own publishing company to promote the album? Would that be sufficient?​

What about publishing and royalties? How do they fit into that equation?​

Digital Music

What about ring tones and downloads is this covered in a standard agreement?​

And any other piece that I am missing, any type of help that can be offered, information or point in the right direction to accomplish this task you can give me that my little brain has yet to discover as a major component of this process would be most kindly accepted. I don’t mind reading and researching just need help getting the correct information.


Thanks so much.
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California

 

[FlyingRon]

Generally, I would put my name as claimant and the publishing company as the rights and permissions contact. Performance royalties will be handled by your agreement with the PRO (BMI). As for negotiating other points, that's between you and the publisher.

 

[AnomalyJonez]

thank you.

 

[AnomalyJonez]

I guess what I really need is someone to write up contracts for me.
do you any referrals or now of any law students that could help me out?
thanks
AJ

 

[Antigone*]

I guess what I really need is someone to write up contracts for me.
do you any referrals or now of any law students that could help me out?
thanks
AJ

Click the blue link at the bottom of your post that says "find a business attorney." Or, does the damsel need help with that too

 

[Zigner]

I guess what I really need is someone to write up contracts for me.
do you any referrals or now of any law students that could help me out?
thanks
AJ

This is not an attorney referral board. Use the orange "Find a Lawyer" button

 

[AnomalyJonez]

Click the blue link at the bottom of your post that says "find a business attorney." Or, does the damsel need help with that too

first of all i love being a damsel in distress, men eat it up..lol
but seriously i did that link first before I posted this thread, haven't gotten a reply yet.
i'll just keep looking and researching, some one is bound to be able to help me. thanks.