Opening The Books: The Publishing Panel
Thursday March 3, 2005 2:45PM
Fairmont Royal York

Play a hit song and you feed your kids for a day. Write a hit song and you can put them all through college. They key to this payoff is music publishing, the complicated machinery of song delivery and one of the more confounding arms of the music business. This how-to session, a must-attend for any aspiring musician, manager or label rep offers useful answers to the basic questions "What is music publishing"? and "What does a music publisher do"? Included are breakdowns of types of publishing deals, sources of songwriting income and publishing agreement language.

Moderator: Greg Sowders, Sr. VP A&R, Warner Chappell Music Inc., Los Angeles

Panelists: Howie Abrams, Senior Director A&R, Zomba Music Publishing, New York
Nick Ferrara, Partner/Entertainment Lawyer, Serling, Rooks, Ferrara, New York
Ralph Murphy, VP International & Domestic Membership Group, ASCAP-Nashville, Nashville
Dougie Thomson, Manager, JBM, Chicago
Jeff Fenster, Senior VP A&R, Arista Records - NY, New York
John C. Barker, President, ICG, Nashville
Alex Decartier, Creative Director, Peermusic Canada Inc., Toronto

Record/Retail (Executive/TuneUp)