girlboymusic: lemme get that

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girlboymusic) wrote,
@ 2007-07-16 23:57:00

Current mood:	tired
Current music:	the Rihanna in my head
Entry tags:	let's hope kara never googles herself, pop/culture, request line

lemme get that
I know approximately nothing about the business of music publishing (and the business of publishing in general, ironically), so can anyone explain this to me?

Hit songwriter Kara DioGuardi is putting her copyright interests up for sale, Billboard.biz has learned. On the auction block are all of her rights, including her writer's share, in songs she's written and co-written through June 30 of this year, sources say.

The whole article.

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skyecaptain
2007-07-17 06:56 am UTC (link)

Haven't read the whole article (sorry it's late and I'm tired) but publishing rights can basically be auctioned off to anyone, who will then "own" the music (and, importantly, will have control of the music's placement in TV ads and all other similar decisions). The most famous example of this happened when the Beatles, represented by Paul McCartney, were outbid by Michael Jackson, who (I think) still owns the rights. Hence, "All You Need Is Luvs" (as in the diaper) which may or may not be an advertising decision that Paul woulda chosen. (Admittedly I'm not very up-to-date on that particular example, but it was a pretty big deal at the time.)

Interesting that Kara owns all the publishing rights to her own stuff! Don't know how this usually works for songwriters at that scale, but, as an example, Arcade Fire quickly signed a publishing rights deal with EMI (most big indie acts, even ones on indie labels, have major labels backing their publsihing deals, which is where all the money is these days anyway) that gave them full control of their music in five years, about half the standard time (and I'm sure there are some acts who basically never own their own stuff, but again my knowledge of this is pretty limited).

So...expect to hear "La La" awkwardly inserted into a commercial in the near future. ("In the kitchen on the floor/ I'll be your French maid/ Bounty always absorbs more!")

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	girlboymusic 2007-07-17 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	What's interesting to me is that Kara has always advised writers to own their own publishing--like, she consistently says not to sign a publishing deal unless you know that company will fight for you. Have you seen the Orange Bowl episode yet? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	skyecaptain 2007-07-17 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	No, I've taken a break. Hell, might as well just watch it now. Will get back to you (in fact will probably do a MAJOR Ashlee Simpson show post sorta thing in the future, esp. based on the conversations we've had about it so far...more to discuss I think). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	skyecaptain 2007-07-18 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	WHAT. THE. FUCK. Interesting build-up and then... It's like in that "Cycling Tour" Monty Python ep. where the guards are charging at Michael Palin and then: SCENE MISSING. Then, inexplicably outside, "Well, glad that worked out for the best!" Second season has a sort of creepy "professional" vibe to it, feels stagier than the first. But that was SUCH CRAP. (Reply to this)(Parent)

skyecaptain
2007-07-17 07:02 am UTC (link)

Feeling insomniatic, so I read the thing anyway.

Licensing rights in most of the songs are not exclusively controlled by DioGuardi.

I assume, maybe wrongly, that this means that a major publishing firm (presumably through a major label) already has licensing rights for DioGuardi's songs, which would include the fantasy jingle above. Have her songs been used in major ad campaigns in the past? I imagine that whoever currently has the licensing rights hasn't been very crass/liberal with dishing out the goods for "synergistic" merch-peddlin' purposes. Will look around for some info about this tomorrow.

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	koganbot 2007-08-03 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	No, this probably simply means that other people co-wrote most of the songs, so, e.g., whoever ends up owning Kara's stuff would nonetheless have to cooperate with Big A Nikki/EMI April Music Inc. and Dylan Jackson Music/WB Music Corp. in licensing the Bounty jingle. (Reply to this)(Parent)

"It can be interpreted in all different ways"

koganbot
2007-08-03 07:14 pm UTC (link)

Also, amazing that "La La" went gold (wasn't it before they started counting downloads?), since I think it got zilch radio play and didn't even break into the U.S. top 80 (though it did half OK in Britain [which charts by sales not airplay], opening at 11 and staying in the top 40 for four weeks).

That info from the not-necessarily reliable Wikipedia. The Wiki article also contains this not-very-revealing quote from Ashlee:

"Another song, 'La La' is flirty and very sexy. It's very tongue in cheek; it can be interpreted in all different ways. It's about sexual fantasies. There's a lot of sarcasm in that song. It's something every girl thinks about, so I decided to make a joke about it. It's one of the songs you can dance around to. Actually, I wrote it because I was singing la la and it was kind of a little dance that I was doing around the room. I didn't have a song on my record that was like sexy. So I thought, 'I'm a girl and I'm feminine and I can be sexy, so here it goes.'"

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	lalanav 2007-07-18 05:02 am UTC (link)
	I know there's something with selling particular rights...and the buyer can essentially say that they wrote the song, even if they didn't. I don't know if that's copyright interests or something else. (Reply to this)

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