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# How Understanding Publishing Can Help Independent Artists Make Money
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/how-understanding-publishing-can-help-independent-artists-make-money/
- Published: 2014-03-10T10:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-03-10T10:28:00.000Z
- Description: With great and unlimited access to the internet comes great responsibility. YouTube is the music industry's premier platform for discovering, promoting, and sharing new music, which is great – unless. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/03/how-understanding-publishing-can-help-ind
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- Tags: Music Business, Music Think Tank, Social Media, YouTube & Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

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With great and unlimited access to the internet comes great responsibility. [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/?ref=hypebot.com) is the [music industry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%5Findustry?ref=hypebot.com)'s premier platform for discovering, promoting, and sharing new music, which is great – unless you get slammed for [copyright infringement](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%5Finfringement?ref=hypebot.com).

Knowing the ins and outs of [publishing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing?ref=hypebot.com) online and otherwise is crucial to any musician's career. You want to know that your music is protected and that you aren't abusing anyone else's. **Larry Mills** brings us a guide to publishing that outlines the do's and don'ts of music publishing on [MusicThinkTank.com](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/how-understanding-publishing-can-help-independent-artists-ma.html?SSScrollPosition=0&ref=hypebot.com)

"*The most efficient way for “cover artists” to share in the advertising that they helped create is to partner with a professional company who work on this platform who have agreements with the [music publishers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%5Fpublisher%5F%28popular%5Fmusic%29?ref=hypebot.com) that allow all parties to share the revenue.*"

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