Learn how to understand and negotiate terms for the four major types of music business contracts: recording, management, performance, and rights agreements.
Music Law: Recording, Management, Rights, and Performance Contracts
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Why bother?
- The grant
- Term and options
- Advances and royalties
- Deductions
- Controlled composition
- Creative control
- Leaving members
- Copublishing
- Marketing provisions
- Warranties and indemnity
- One-offs
- Before you sign
- What will your manager do for you?
- Paying the manager
- Post-term commissions
- Terminating a manager
- Basic terms
- Liability and safety
- Getting paid
- Musician releases
- Artwork permissions
- Using samples
- Band partnership
- Publishing
- Record shopping
- Producer agreements
- Oral agreements and record keeping
- Boilerplate
- Attorney fees, mediation, and arbitration
- Five rules for all music contracts
- Next steps
Taught by
Richard Stim
