Bionic Beats

Thanks for your response. True, you can sell your right to labels and publishers but before selling them you need to figure out how many do you have. So there is still a need of allocating rights to band partners fairly. I wanted to suss out the field a bit before going to a lawyer.

Hi, I make music with a partner, and want to specify the ownership of each song individually because I put significantly more time and knowledge into the music than he does. I have good knowledge of copyrights and the differences between the right in the composition and the right in the recorded composition but still some open questions: I thought about writing something like this per song (in addition to a partnership agreement):Individual Music Ownership AgreementSong name: "Supersong"1. Musical composition:Partner A: 80%Partner B: 20%2. Lyrics:Partner A: 50%Partner B: 50%3. Performance on recorded composition with the name "Supersong":Partner A: 100%Partner B: 0%4. Ownership of master:Partner A: 80%Partner B: 20%I am not sure whether 3 and 4 are handled separately or as one point. I know that usually whoever pays for the recording owns the master (traditionally the label but I record and mix in my studio). I have also heard that ownership of the master is equally shared in all participants including a label for example. Or can it be specified in detail as I have done above. Or does it make sense to value the recording and mixing as a "performance". Thanks a lot for any help.Pete