Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business

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Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006 - 335 lappuses
This fully updated and expanded book is not about how the music business should work, but how it does work. Industry insider Moses Avalon tells it like it is - how producers dip into budgets, artists steal songs, lawyers write contracts in code - and shows you how to survive these and other career-stifling situations. Deconstructing actual major and indie-label record deals, this book dissects each party's involvement and offers perspective on their actual roles, how much they get paid, and what their agendas really are. Engineers, managers, producers, artists, labels and lawyers each take their turn in the hot seat. It also outlines realistic alternatives for newcomers, such as "baby" production deals and vanity labels. This third edition includes: an entire chapter comparing ASCAP and BMI - a publishing first * new insights for indie artists, including the lowdown on digital-distribution scams and independent AandR * information on new legislation and its impact on sampling and other legal matters * new music-industry "family trees" that reflect recent consolidation and reorganization * 80 pages of new material * and much more.

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The Players
1
The Pros
3
Conflicts of Interest
6
AR
7
Managers
9
Publicists Booking Agents Tour Managers and Image Consultants
12
The Creators
15
The Jobber
18
The Producer as a Virtual Partner
156
Wheres My Contract?
157
What You Dont Know Will Hurt You
158
Screwing the Producer or the ReRecord
159
Letters of Direction LODs
162
Artists LOD
164
WrapUp Who Earned What?
165
Artist
166

Songwriters
20
Engineers
22
Artists
23
Producers
25
Control Freaks
28
Counteracting the Effects of the Control Freak
30
Companies Companies Companies
31
Record Companies
32
Publishing Companies
33
Copyright Administration Companies
35
The Unions
39
The AFM
40
AFTRA
42
Publicity Companies
43
Distribution Companies
44
Etailers
45
Rights Clearinghouses
46
The Harry Fox Agency the HFA
47
The RIAA
48
The Deal
51
Understanding Distribution or Why Are There So Many Logos on the Record?
53
OneDeep TwoDeep Labels
56
The Major Label Deal from the Artists Point of View
61
Recoupable Financing The Moving Goal Post
63
The Big Four Deal with RealDeal Numbers
64
So How Long Till I See Some Money?
65
Packaging Deductions and Giveaways
66
The 34 Royalty
67
Deep in the Hole
69
Returns Reserves and Cutouts
71
CrossCollateralization or Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
73
A Major Label Deal Is Like Having a Credit Card at 66 Interest
74
DropKicked from the Roster
75
How Long Till the Record Comes Out?
76
Be Careful What You Wish For
77
Publishing Deals The 200 Pie or 100 of Something is Better than 200 of Nothing
79
Publishing Advances and Their Deductions
81
Sample Rights
82
The Workaround for Recoupment Hell
83
Collecting Money in the New Economy
84
The Major Label Deal from the Producers Point of View
85
The ArtistProducer Conflict
86
The Allin Deal
88
NonAllln Deals
89
The Spec Deal
91
Kickbacks
93
Kickbacks to AR
94
The Major Label Deal from the Record Companys Point of View
99
Deductions
100
Aggregation Fees
101
To the Artist
102
Image Molding
103
A Bit of History
106
Sponsors
110
The Single
113
Billboard or Bullboard?
115
SoundScan
116
Airplay Webcasting
119
NetHype
121
The Independent Record Deal The Birth of the New Indie
125
The Independent Record Deal from the Point of View of the Record Company
129
The Independent Record Deal from the Point of View of the Artist
133
Publishing and Royalties
134
Indie in Disguise
135
Speed Trends
136
CrossCollateralization
138
The Baby Record Deal
141
The ArtistProducer Production Deal
142
The Joint Venture
144
Cutting Out the Producer
146
Contraceptive Contracts
147
The Vanity Label
149
The Virtual Budget and the Virtual Producers Fee
151
Producers Compensation Package
154
Producer
169
Scams and Shams
173
Watching Your Back
175
The Myth of Copyright Protection or Hey They Stole My Song
177
Suing Stars
179
When Band Members Sue Each Other
186
Collecting Your Money
187
Blockage
188
Name Blockage
189
SoundAlikes
190
SampleAlikes
193
Master Fraud
195
Clears
197
Cleans
198
9to1 Publishing or Why Is There Only One Good Song on the Record?
199
CD Replicator Scams or Getting Duped by the Duper
201
Guaranteed Distribution
202
Cheapie Barcodes
203
The 1x vs 4x Debate
204
Fingerprinting and Bootlegging
205
Digital Deceptions iTunes Scams
206
Exclusivity
208
Termination and Opting Out or See You Later Aggregator
209
Independent AR Services
210
Sneaky Lawyer Stuff
215
Virtual Terms
216
Internet Labels and Their Nonexclusive Contracts
217
The Little Squeeze
219
Letters of Misdirection
221
Voted OutThe Band as a Corporate Entity
222
Legalease?
225
Warner Bros Record Contract
230
Conclusion
236
Miscellaneous Myths and Untruths
239
A R Dogma
241
Second Sendings
243
Labels Sign Bad Acts for Tax WriteOffs
244
The Mercy Signing
245
SoundScan Tells All
246
Illegal FileSharing Is Killing the Music Business
247
Are Sales Really Down?
248
So Are There Real Losses?
249
ASCAP vs BMI PRO Pontification
251
Should You Bother to Join Either of Them?
253
Who Pays More
255
Were a Nonprofit So You Can Trust Us
258
Okay So Were Not Really a Nonprofit Big Whoop We Still Act Like One Right?
260
So Who Owns These Guys?
263
Who Controls ASCAP
264
The Bully Factor
266
So Which PRO Is Right for You?
269
Production Boners
271
You Must Record on a Digital Medium with at Least 100 Tracks
272
Why the Cassettes Sound Muddy
273
Marketing Mishigas
275
Getting Credit Where Credit Is Due
279
Major Label Philosophy on Giving Credit to Sidemen and Engineers
282
How to Get Even
284
The Coproduction Credit
286
Industry Census
287
People in the Business Jews?
288
Are Women Discriminated Against in the Music Business?
289
The Big Picture or the Record Industry from the Point of View of the Rest of the World
291
Do Record Companies Really Make Any Money?
292
Loss Leader
293
A Map of the Financial Universe
301
Major Label Family Trees The Big Four as of 2005
304
RecordPause
311
Final Word
313
Family Trees of Big Six Distributors as of January 1998
314
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
319
WHO IS MOSES AVALON AND WHAT IS THE MOSES AVALON COMPANY?
320
INDEX
323
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