Technology in Publishing Business

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ANTONIO NEAL: Hey, this is Antonio Neal with Artistic Soul Entertainment on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about copyrighting a song and also publishing a song. Let's talk about how technology has really affected the publishing world. Technology has really, really, really changed the way people collect and everything is going digital. And because everything, when you register your songs on BMI or you go to the copyright.gov, everything is on a database. When BMI or ASCAP collects your music, everything is on digital database. You need to have that because there are so many new ways that music and movies and songs are being sold and being created, and a lot of this stuff, it happens so quickly that a lot of time technology and even the ability to collect this money is [SOUNDS LIKE] out there now. So, you need to really be on the cups of this technology. Right now, while things are going on and you got songs and you go on into--I was going to say, you're going into commercializing your songs, you need to really have--that's what technology is doing. It's happening so fast from iPhones and iMacs and it's getting to a point where people are not--if people are trying to create a thing you won't even buy CDs but at the same time, people--consumers are always going to buy music. They're just going to buy music a different way, but the way that they pay us is going to be the same way. It's whose name and who has taken ownership of this song. And that's why it's important. Technology, like I said, it's so crazy right now and it's going to come all the way back. Think about this: From as far as your song can go out, I mean, I've had people from Japan, the Philippines, Macedonia, Russia, China, Israel, I mean, all over the world, purchase music that I've been a part of and how do these companies pay me? It goes all the way back to a little sheet of paper and who were the writers and who were the publishers and our percentage. Because you'll never knew--if you told me, I'm from a little town not less than 30,000 people in Illinois, and I've been writing songs for years and I never knew that a song or a melody could actually take it on myself and my family. So, really, you're really helping yourself. You're helping your family, you're helping your future, you're helping your dream. You're helping--maybe you're just tired of your job and you said, "Man, I'm sick of working 'cause my love is music. My love is writing. My love is producing, doing movies" or whatever it may be. Take out this time and because technology has opened up so many doors for our music and for our songs and our books to be spread all over this world and you need to make sure that you're set up so that people can trace you back. And also that money flow, that resource, can come back to you. So, that's very important. Peace.

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