On the one hand, Brown believed she could negotiate a deal to produce Roscommon's next recording for $20,000, which included the standard options to produce and own three additional albums. As part of the deal, Compass would also negotiate a copublishing arrangement with Roscommon. Typically, an artist such as Roscommon, who wrote all her own songs, would split 50% of the mechanical royalties earned on an album with a music publisher, with which she would contract to promote her written compositions. Under this deal, however, Compass would be the publisher of the songs on the album. If Brown and her husband chose this alternative, therefore, Compass would effectively reduce their mechanical royalty expenses by half.