What they'll never tell you about the music business
Subtitle: the complete guide for musicians, songwriters, producers, managers, industry executives, attorneys, investors, and accountants
By: Peter M. Thall
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9781607749745
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Band musicians; Performing arts; Popular music; Vocational guidance; Copyright; Law and legislation; Writing and publishing; Musicians; Music; Music trade; Legal status, laws
Other titles: What they will never tell you about the music business
Notes: Previous editions published by Billboard Books, in 2002 and 2006.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Investors : the high costs of low finance; title: 3. Advances : why they seem a lot like loans (and vice versa); title: 4. Royalties : some unvarnished truths; title: 5. Personal management : the whys, wherefores, and watch outs; title: 6.Managing your business and your financial future : when "show me the money" isn't enough; title: 7. When your job is more than a gig : employment agreements and disagreements; title: 8. Record producers : are they as sharp as their points?; title: 9. Getting your record heard : a practical guide to marketing and promotion; title: 10. Touring concerns : trials and tribulations; title: 11. Merchandising : your band, your brand; title: 12. Audits : truth or consequences; title: 13. Music publishing : the odyssey of the song; title: 14. When Rodgers meets Hammerstein : determining songwriter credits; title: 15. Being your own music publishing company : pros and cons; title: 16. Internet entrepreneurship : doing it yourself; title: 17. Lost, misplaced, neglected, and abandoned : royalty opportunities you were never told about; title: 18. Urban music : the beat goes on; title: 19. Classical music : dead or alive?; title: 20. Termination of grants of copyrights : for every end, a beginning; title: 21. Compliance with copyright laws : hints for the corporate counsel; title: 22. Catalogue valuation : how to improve your odds at winning big; title: 23. Copyright issues : a sampler; title: 24. Copyright : can't live with it, can't live without it; title: 25. Solving piracy in the 21st century : how to avoid a Greek tragedy.