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An edition of All you need to know about the music business (1991)

All you need to know about the music business

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This latest edition leads novices and experts alike through up-to-the-minute information on the industry's major changes in response to today's rapid technological advances and uncertain economy.

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Free Press
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English
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Subjects
Popular music, Copyright, Writing and publishing, Populaire muziek, Muziekindustrie, Music trade, Music, Musikwirtschaft, Economische aspecten, Handelspraktijken, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Music, Sound recording industry, Vocational guidance, Droit d'auteur, Aspect e conomique, Musique, E criture et e dition, Industrie, Musique populaire, Music, economic aspects, Copyright, music, Popular music, writing and publishing, Copyright, united states, Popmusik, Urheberrecht, Musikbranschen, Musik, Ekonomiska aspekter, Populärmusik, Copyright law, Music industry, Aspect économique, Écriture et édition
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Table of Contents

1. First step
pt. I. Your team of advisors
2. How to pick a team
Getting your team together
Business philosophy
Hiring a team
Changing a team member
Cocktail party talk
3. Personal managers
Role
Commission overview
Negotiating the manager's deal
Picking the right manager
4. Business managers
Role
How to pick a business manager
Business manager checklist
Fees
Your half of the job
5. Attorneys
Picking a lawyer
Fees
Conflicts of interest
Attorney checklist
6. Agents
Role
Fees
Deal points
Picking an agent
pt. II. Record deals
7. Broad-strokes overview of the record business
Industry structure
What's a record?
Masters
Royalty computation
Ye olde royalty calculations
8. Advances and recoupment
Advances : the basic concept
Cross-collateralization
9. Real-life numbers
Overview
Royalties
Advances
Career co-ventures
Look how much you already know
10. Other major deal points
Amount of product
How long?
Mega deals
Delivery requirements
Controlled compositions
Greatest hits
Live albums
Guaranteed release
Independents day
11. Producer and mixer deals
What's a producer?
Royalties
Advances
Who hires the produces?
A major point, pay attention
Mixers
12. Advanced record deal points
Advanced demo deal negotiation
Exclusivity
Videos
Independent promotion
Merchandising rights
Tour support
Territory
Union per-record charges
Album cover artwork
Creative, marketing, and other controls
Reserve limitations
SoundScan
Special packaging costs
Accountings
13. Advanced royalty computations
Distribution methods
Royalties for United States sales
Foreign royalties
R.O.W.
New technologies, electronic transmissions, and things that go bump in the night
Master licenses
Coupling and compilations
Joint recordings
"Greatest hits" albums
Multiple albums
Box sets
Television advertising
DVDs and other home video devices
Mid-price records
Budget records
New and developing artist prices
Record clubs
Cutouts, deletes, scraps, and other food for bottom feeders
Premiums
Video games
DART, digital performance, and Webcasting monies
Foreign public performance of masters
14. Loan-out, independent production, label, and distribution deals
Loan-out deals
Independent production agreements
Joint ventures
Pressing and distribution (P&D) deals
Upstream deals
pt. III. Songwriting and music publishing
15. Copyright basics
Basic copyright concepts
What are all these rights you get?
Exceptions to the copyright monopoly
Compulsory mechanical licenses
16. Publishing companies and major income sources
Publishing overview
Sources of income
Mechanical royalties
Controlled composition clauses
Maximum rate per song
Maximum rate per album
Public-performance royalties
17. Secondary publishing income
Printed music
Synchronization and transcription licenses
Electronic transmissions, including digital downloads, ring tones, Webcasting, subscription services, and podcasting
Foreign subpublishing
DART monies (Audio Home Recording Act of 1992)
Bonus section!
How to set up a publishing company
18. Songwriter deals
Songwriter royalties
Standard contracts
Performance monies
Printed music royalties
DART and Webcasting monies
Advances
Term songwriter agreements
Pop quiz
Collaboration (tow or more songwriters)
Creative control
Reversion of copyright
19. Copublishing and administration deals
Copublishing deals
Administration agreements
Now look where you are!
20. Advanced copyright concepts
Who owns the copyright?
Works for hire
Duration of copyright
Right of termination
Digital performance of masters, digital delivery of masters, and Webcasting
"First sale" doctrine
21. Even more advanced copyright concepts
I got you twenty, babe
Termination right mechanics
Extension rights
Digital samples
Sound recording copyrights
The copyright notice
Registration and deposit
What you get when someone rips off your copyright
pt. IV. Group issues
22. Groups
Group provisions in record deals
Trivia quiz
Internal group deals
What's in a name?
pt. V. Touring
23. Personal appearances, touring
Roles of team members
Marketing
Personal appearance deals
New artists
Midlevel artists
Superstar touring
Hall fees
Riders
I'll take the whole thing...
Lining your pockets with more gold
pt. VI. Merchandising
24. Tour merchandising
Merchandisers
Royalties
Hall fees
Advances
Term
Advance repayment
Performance minimum
Exclusivity
Creative control
Sell-off rights
Bootleggers
25. Retail merchandising
Royalties
Other deal points
Caution
pt. VII. Classical music
26. Classical music
Term and product
Royalties
Advances
Mechanical royalties
Marketing tie-ins
pt. VIII. Motion picture music
27. Overview of motion picture music
Introduction
One song, eight deals
The rights involved
28. Performer deals
Overview
Performance in the film (no record rights)
Record rights to film performances
29. Film songwriter deals
Terminology
Deal points
30. Composer agreements
Deal points
Package deals
Creative financing
Television composers
Video game composers
31. Licensing existing recordings and existing songs for motion pictures
Master licenses
Licensing existing musical compositions for films
Film music quiz
32. Music supervisors
Role
Fees and royalties
Television supervisors
33. Soundtrack album deals
Score albums
Song albums
Cost covering
Other issues.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780/.23/73
Library of Congress
ML3790 .P35 2003, ML3790.P35 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 441 p. :
Number of pages
441

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24751051M
Internet Archive
allyouneedtoknow00pass
ISBN 10
0743246373
ISBN 13
9780743246378
LCCN
2003049115
OCLC/WorldCat
52178832

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