submitting songs that are co-written/recorded

[sethlit]

Apologies if this has been covered before. My search didn't present any specific answers for me. I'd like to submit to a recent Children's song dispatch. My good friend has written quite a few children's songs and we thought of partnering up for the dispatch.

Because the Taxi membership is mine and I will be recording/producing the tracks, he has agreed to personally split 50/50 with any potential income from the tracks through this specific submission (including writer's share). Does that still give me acceptable "permission" to submit them? I know that a lot of the submissions include a clause- "must own the copyright" etc.

Unless we end up writing a bit together, the songs are legally his. Should I not submit them then? Would it be wise to write up a short contract to protect both parties? Thanks ahead!

[matto]

You can submit anything that you are a legal co-writer of. You can't submit something that you only produced, engineered, performed on etc...

This is the basic Taxi requirement...if the listing lists additional requirements you would have to conform to those as well...

[sethlit]

That's what I figured. Thanks for the confirmation Matto!