What they'll never tell you about the music business : the myths, the secrets, the lies (& a few truths)
Bad news: The music business is packed with hidden agendas. Good news: There's one indispensable guide that helps songwriters, musicians, executives, lawyers, and managers understand the music business and travel its shark-infested waters safely and confidently. What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business sold more than 20,000 copies in its first edition. This new, fully revised edition presents even more priceless insider information, updated for today's music scene, plus clear explanations and advice on the new transparency in agreements, the impact of agent-artist agreements, new webcasting opportunities, changes in copyright law, royalty limits, and all the other developments in law and technology, plus advice for songwriters, A & R people, and artists, and much, much more. Packed with real-world ideas and tips, What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business, Revised and Updated is the must-have guide for creative types and business types'everyone who works in the music industry. "Intelligent and accessible." 'David Geffen From the Hardcover edition
1 online resource (xii, 340 pages)
9780307874955, 0307874958
669071170
Introduction
Investors
Advances
Royalties
Personal management
Managing your business and your financial future
When your job is more than a gig
Record producers
Getting your record heard
Touring concerns
Merchandising
Audits
Music publishing
When Rodgers meets Hammerstein
Being your own music publishing company
Internet entrepreneurship
Lost, misplaced, neglected, and abandoned
Urban music
Classical music
Termination of grants of copyrights
Compliance with copyright laws
Catalogue valuation
Copyright issues
Copyright