Once upon a time, every songwriter had to find a music publisher to find an artist to record the song and to collect money on their songwriter clients behalf.
Because Publishers need to have both access to, and ownership of the song, in order to fulfill their fiduciary responsibility to their songwriter client, songwriters would often relinquish ownership of 1/2 of the song and royalties generated, to publishers.
When I started Spirit Wind Productions it was with the full intent to use it as a resource for "only" the creative products that I personally conjured up, internalizing the business operation for profit, instead of costs to operate.
Spirit Wind Publishing represents only one songwriter, Bill Sparkman, and that will remain in its structured business plan, forever.
I have chosen and joined ASCAP for my Performing Arts Representation, which includes copyrights and publishing of my creative work.