Ashcroft had to cede authorship of the song, and all publishing royalties, to ABKCO.
Earlier this year, Sony negotiated a 25 percent increase in its publishing royalties from Pandora.
Over the years, "Money" has generated millions of dollars in publishing royalties.
Jones asked Roth for publishing royalties for songs that, technically speaking, she didn't write.
At least that way you'll have another revenue stream from music publishing royalties.
In 2006, U2 moved the company that houses its publishing royalties from Ireland to the Netherlands for tax reasons.
Songwriters, who can't go out on the road, are particularly hard hit by the loss of publishing royalties.
But eventually most of the English groups followed the Beatles' example, wrote their own material and reaped the publishing royalties.
Some important caveats: these numbers apply to performing musicians, but they do not include publishing royalties for the songwriting.
If the album includes original compositions, as Ms. Schneider's do, some labels also demand the music's publishing royalties.
The choice was controversial back then because folklorists generally credited songs to "traditional" (which wouldn't yield publishing royalties either).
