EMI Music Publishing Ltd

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The Green Lantern
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This may be a dumb question already answered a million times, but why is it that the lyrics for the new unreleased songs is reproduced by kind permission of EMI Music Publishing Ltd at the official Sisters site?
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The inner workings of the music industry are a complete mystery to me (I'm happier to leave them that way too), but as I understand it's just a publishing deal, which is a far cry from a recording contract. It's possible for an artist to have a publishing deal with, say, BMG but a recording contract with WEA (as I understand The Sisters did once - sigh). The publishing bit (I think) just looks after the legal side of stuff, such as royalties, ownership 'n' whatnot, whereas the recording contract deals with getting product in shops.
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Thanks ol' chap. Yes, that makes sense in a vague businesslike sort of way :D
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