Kahua offer a publishing service which incorporates:

• Administration – the collection of royalties due from the use of a songwriter or composer’s copyrights.
• Development – finding further uses for copyrights and negotiating licenses for their use.
  

Our primary focus is on the administration elements of music publishing.

The role of Kahua as a publisher is to:

• Register the works of songwriters and composers with all appropriate collecting societies and agencies.
• Monitor and track the use of assigned copyrights and ensure that proper payment is made for all licensed uses.
• Make royalty payments to songwriters and composers in respect of the usage of their music.
• Promote composers and songwriters to those who use music on a commercial basis such as performers, broadcasters, record companies and computer game developers.
• Negotiate licenses for the use of works.
• Take appropriate action against anyone using music without the necessary license.

We acquire copyrights from songwriters and composers and contract them to an agreement. We only control the copyrights that are given to us and do not contract songwriters to exclusive songwriting agreements (i.e. we don't own every song written while under contract). We sign both entire or partial ownership of songs, meaning we can still work with individuals who operate as part of a collaboration or band.