Development Roadmap for Django Music Publisher

Original Publisher(s)

Django Music Publisher originally supported just one publisher per installation. No data on other publishers (publishers for non-controlled writers) can be entered. This will not change.

Administration, Co-Publishing and Sub-Publishing

Django Music Publisher only supports one original publisher per controlled writer and does not take data on administrators or sub-publishers, nor any territory-related data. None of it is on the roadmap for Django Music Publisher.

Co-publishing deals are still possible, though each publisher has to manage their own data. Consult the manual for details.

Writer and Publisher Shares

Django Music Publisher only supports one model, in which controlled writers maintain 50% of performing rights, while the other 50% and 100% of mechanical and synchronization rights are transferred to the original publisher. The only information needed is the writers’ relative shares, all share data is calculated based on that.

If you are from the US, then we need to use a different language to explain this. Controlled writers keep and directly collect writer share for performing rights, everything else is collected by the original publisher. Nothing else is on the roadmap.

Writer Affiliations

As the result of described limitations, specifically, no territory-related data (the only territory is World), only a single performing rights affiliation is possible. Furthermore, due to the Writer and publisher shares limitation, mechanical and sync affiliations for writers are pointless, so they will not be included.