Publishing income has always been the money making side of the music industry, and licensing absolutely plays its part in profits. So now non traditional music companies are attempting to play the market, as well as a host of start up companies looking for free publishing and licensing income in the multitudes of unsigned artists wanting to break in on the game.

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While you can judge a CD by its cover, when the stack of music starts to pile up, I listen to all of it. Licensable music has particular characteristics and those qualities usually have to present themselves in the first two or three seconds of listening, which is how most industry people tend to select music.

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The single most favorite topic that those living in the music industry love to talk about amongst themselves is the demise of major labels and the crumbling music industry structure. There's not a day that goes by that this subject doesn't come up for me.

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