Angry Mob’s Co-Founder and CEO, Marc Caruso, recently penned a guest post for Hypebot highlighting the need for music publishers to treat songwriters and their copyrights with respect and humanity by keeping the humans behind the work at the center of every decision they make.
Read the full guest post on Hypebot at the link below!
The music publishing industry will tell you it’s in the business of managing copyrights. It isn’t. It’s in the business of managing trust.
– Marc Caruso, Hypebot
Songwriters hand over pieces of themselves to publishers. Some of those hand-offs are apparent from the start, while others reveal themselves through their songs over time, often from emotional places that remain sensitive or unresolved. When a songwriter places those songs with a publisher, their trust carries the emotional weight of their work. It’s a passenger on their life’s journey.
Music publishing is often described in terms of assets, catalog, scale, market share, and revenue streams. While these terms explain the mechanics of our industry, they also create a distance, and that distance affects how decisions get made.