What's the deal with cats starting publishing companies?

Just curious if i'm missing out on something. I see a lot of beat makers with their own publishing companies i.e. Acq1 Publishing...What is this for?

to copyright your work and have a business address to collect your royalties.

Essential stuff if u wanna make those £££

it can also be used for a major tax off set too

definitly look into it when you get with a publishing company. i find it hilarious that people on this board laugh at others when publishing is mentioned; its a good business move.

Maybe a dumb question, but what's the difference between a publishing company and a production company?
Or is it almost tha same thing with a different name?

Menco wrote:Maybe a dumb question, but what's the difference between a publishing company and a production company?
Or is it almost tha same thing with a different name?

Biiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggg Difference.

The primary job of the music publisher is to link up new songs by songwriters with suitable recording artists to record them, with the intent of creating a hit record and generating large numbers of sales and airplay. Promoting such songs, supervising the collection and payment of publishing royalties for sales to their writers, placing writers' songs in other media such as movie soundtracks and commercials, and handling copyright registration and "ownership" matters for published songs, are among other jobs handled by a music publisher. Music print publishers also supervise the issue of songbooks and sheet music by their artists.

Traditionally, music publishing royalties are split fifty/fifty, with half going to the publisher (as payment for their services) and the rest going to the songwriter – or songwriters, as the case may be. Other arrangements have been made in the past, and continue to be; some better for the writers, some better for the publishers. Occasionally a recording artist will ask for a co-writer's credit on a song (thus sharing in both the artist and publishing royalties) in exchange for selecting it to perform, particularly if the writer is not well-known. Sometimes an artist's manager or producer will expect a co-credit or share of the publishing (as with Norman Petty and Phil Spector), and occasionally a publisher will insist on writer's credit (as Morris Levy did with several of his acts); these practices are listed in descending order of scrupulousness, as regarded by the music industry.

from Wikipedia

Music Production companies are the companies of a music producer which the title of a music producer in most genres is listed below... here is an example from Wikipedia

In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. This has been a major function of producers since the inception of sound recording, but in the later half of the 20th century producers also took on a wider entrepreneurial role.

The music producer could in some cases be compared to the film director in that the producer's job is to create, shape and mold a piece of music in accordance with their vision for the album.

If you are an independant lable and also own the publishing rights, they can be sold if you get lucky enough to have your disk be in demand.