Sharing royalties
A friend of mine said I have to share royalties with him because he put chords to a melody that I wrote - I couldn't figure out the chords - maybe a few but not all - he said 50/50 - I said no - it was my melody and my lyrics - he played the chords out on his keyboard - put a drum beat to it and some instrumentation - is this true? - I didn't think so - I thought of his part as a producer not "songwriter" - I mean a melody is going to have certain set chords anyway - it's not like he "created" them - Alan
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