As part of our Artist Advocacy model Winding Way Records will not attempt to take your publishing rights, reduce your royalty rates or do anything else that is underhanded.

We will always advocate for you in  our contracts.  For example, the industry in the past took 100% of the rights, shared net revenues 50/50 but only after trumping up marketing and distribution expenses. In reality these deals mean little or nothing for the artists after deducting the label overhead.  These bad deals meant an Artist typically only received about 5% of the deal.

We are different – we take no copyrights, publishing rights or mechanical rights.  In our deals you maintain your rights and license to us the right to publish and distribute your music.  In exchange we offer a 70/30 split and only expense direct costs to produce, promote and distribute your music.  No first class tickets, no expensive lunches, no unnecessary overhead expenses.  If you don’t benefit we failed in our mission to be Artist Advocates.

In the past the industry contracts reduced the royalties due an artist.  We will not have a Controlled Composition clause or “Cap” in any agreement in attempt to reduce the mechanical royalty rate that an artist is due.  The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) sets the royalty rate for authors of music (rights owner).  We guarantee that we will not attempt to reduce this rate in any of our agreements.  If someone offers you a record deal that has a “Controlled Composition” clause – walk away.

If we become your publisher,  we help you register your music works with the Copyright office, register you at the leading Performance Rights Organization (PRO) such as  BMI and help make sure your royalties are tracked correctly. Our publishing agreements are split on collections but just to give us the right to Administer your PRO registrations – we will not seek more than a 10 percent of collections in these deals.