The traditional role of a record company is to make the recordings, release the masters, get the finished song, the finished product, to the general public, whether that be on a record, or sending it to radio, or what have you. They do the marketing, the distribution, that sort of idea.
A music publisher, on the other hand, works with the songwriters themselves, so the songs themselves. The whole business is predicated on the song. Without a song, you don't have a record company, you don't have a publisher, you don't have anything. That's what we deal with. We deal with the intellectual property of the song, of the songwriter.
Traditionally the difference was that they marketed, distributed, and manufactured, and we provided the songs to them. Now it has changed. Now we are both doing a little bit of each other's work. The Internet is not the artist's best friend. It actually makes more noise than it doesn't. There's so much out there; it's hard to filter. We have to act more as a filter, just like the labels do now, and we have to market, promote, and get things to film and TV, etc.