| Edition |
Sixth edition ; [revised and updated]. |
| Description |
xxii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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pt. IV. Group issues -- 22. Groups -- Group provisions in record deals -- Trivia quiz -- Internal group deals -- What's in a name? -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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pt. VII. Classical music -- 26. Classical music -- Term and product -- Royalties -- Advances -- Mechanical royalties -- Marketing tie-ins -- |
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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. |
| Subject |
Music trade -- United States.
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Music -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Copyright -- Music -- United States.
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Popular music -- Writing and publishing.
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| ISBN |
0743293185 |
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9780743293181 |
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