All you need to know about the music business
By: Donald S. Passman ; illustrations by Randy Glass
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780743246378
Subjects: Popular music; Copyright; Writing and publishing; Populaire muziek; Muziekindustrie; Music trade; Music; Musikwirtschaft; Economische aspecten; Handelspraktijken
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. First step; title: pt. I. Your team of advisors; title: 2. How to pick a team; title: Getting your team together; title: Business philosophy; title: Hiring a team; title: Changing a team member; title: Cocktail party talk; title: 3. Personal managers; title: Role; title: Commission overview; title: Negotiating the manager's deal; title: Picking the right manager; title: 4. Business managers; title: Role; title: How to pick a business manager; title: Business manager checklist; title: Fees; title: Your half of the job; title: 5. Attorneys; title: Picking a lawyer; title: Fees; title: Conflicts of interest; title: Attorney checklist; title: 6. Agents; title: Role; title: Fees; title: Deal points; title: Picking an agent; title: pt. II. Record deals; title: 7. Broad-strokes overview of the record business; title: Industry structure; title: What's a record?; title: Masters; title: Royalty computation; title: Ye olde royalty calculations; title: 8. Advances and recoupment; title: Advances : the basic concept; title: Cross-collateralization; title: 9. Real-life numbers; title: Overview; title: Royalties; title: Advances; title: Career co-ventures; title: Look how much you already know; title: 10. Other major deal points; title: Amount of product; title: How long?; title: Mega deals; title: Delivery requirements; title: Controlled compositions; title: Greatest hits; title: Live albums; title: Guaranteed release; title: Independents day; title: 11. Producer and mixer deals; title: What's a producer?; title: Royalties; title: Advances; title: Who hires the produces?; title: A major point, pay attention; title: Mixers; title: 12. Advanced record deal points; title: Advanced demo deal negotiation; title: Exclusivity; title: Videos; title: Independent promotion; title: Merchandising rights; title: Tour support; title: Territory; title: Union per-record charges; title: Album cover artwork; title: Creative, marketing, and other controls; title: Reserve limitations; title: SoundScan; title: Special packaging costs; title: Accountings; title: 13. Advanced royalty computations; title: Distribution methods; title: Royalties for United States sales; title: Foreign royalties; title: R.O.W.; title: New technologies, electronic transmissions, and things that go bump in the night; title: Master licenses; title: Coupling and compilations; title: Joint recordings; title: "Greatest hits" albums; title: Multiple albums; title: Box sets; title: Television advertising; title: DVDs and other home video devices; title: Mid-price records; title: Budget records; title: New and developing artist prices; title: Record clubs; title: Cutouts, deletes, scraps, and other food for bottom feeders; title: Premiums; title: Video games; title: DART, digital performance, and Webcasting monies; title: Foreign public performance of masters; title: 14. Loan-out, independent production, label, and distribution deals; title: Loan-out deals; title: Independent production agreements; title: Joint ventures; title: Pressing and distribution (P&D) deals; title: Upstream deals; title: pt. III. Songwriting and music publishing; title: 15. Copyright basics; title: Basic copyright concepts; title: What are all these rights you get?; title: Exceptions to the copyright monopoly; title: Compulsory mechanical licenses; title: 16. Publishing companies and major income sources; title: Publishing overview; title: Sources of income; title: Mechanical royalties; title: Controlled composition clauses; title: Maximum rate per song; title: Maximum rate per album; title: Public-performance royalties; title: 17. Secondary publishing income; title: Printed music; title: Synchronization and transcription licenses; title: Electronic transmissions, including digital downloads, ring tones, Webcasting, subscription services, and podcasting; title: Foreign subpublishing; title: DART monies (Audio Home Recording Act of 1992); title: Bonus section!; title: How to set up a publishing company; title: 18. Songwriter deals; title: Songwriter royalties; title: Standard contracts; title: Performance monies; title: Printed music royalties; title: DART and Webcasting monies; title: Advances; title: Term songwriter agreements; title: Pop quiz; title: Collaboration (tow or more songwriters); title: Creative control; title: Reversion of copyright; title: 19. Copublishing and administration deals; title: Copublishing deals; title: Administration agreements; title: Now look where you are!; title: 20. Advanced copyright concepts; title: Who owns the copyright?; title: Works for hire; title: Duration of copyright; title: Right of termination; title: Digital performance of masters, digital delivery of masters, and Webcasting; title: "First sale" doctrine; title: 21. Even more advanced copyright concepts; title: I got you twenty, babe; title: Termination right mechanics; title: Extension rights; title: Digital samples; title: Sound recording copyrights; title: The copyright notice; title: Registration and deposit; title: What you get when someone rips off your copyright; title: pt. IV. Group issues; title: 22. Groups; title: Group provisions in record deals; title: Trivia quiz; title: Internal group deals; title: What's in a name?; title: pt. V. Touring; title: 23. Personal appearances, touring; title: Roles of team members; title: Marketing; title: Personal appearance deals; title: New artists; title: Midlevel artists; title: Superstar touring; title: Hall fees; title: Riders; title: I'll take the whole thing...; title: Lining your pockets with more gold; title: pt. VI. Merchandising; title: 24. Tour merchandising; title: Merchandisers; title: Royalties; title: Hall fees; title: Advances; title: Term; title: Advance repayment; title: Performance minimum; title: Exclusivity; title: Creative control; title: Sell-off rights; title: Bootleggers; title: 25. Retail merchandising; title: Royalties; title: Other deal points; title: Caution; title: pt. VII. Classical music; title: 26. Classical music; title: Term and product; title: Royalties; title: Advances; title: Mechanical royalties; title: Marketing tie-ins; title: pt. VIII. Motion picture music; title: 27. Overview of motion picture music; title: Introduction; title: One song, eight deals; title: The rights involved; title: 28. Performer deals; title: Overview; title: Performance in the film (no record rights); title: Record rights to film performances; title: 29. Film songwriter deals; title: Terminology; title: Deal points; title: 30. Composer agreements; title: Deal points; title: Package deals; title: Creative financing; title: Television composers; title: Video game composers; title: 31. Licensing existing recordings and existing songs for motion pictures; title: Master licenses; title: Licensing existing musical compositions for films; title: Film music quiz; title: 32. Music supervisors; title: Role; title: Fees and royalties; title: Television supervisors; title: 33. Soundtrack album deals; title: Score albums; title: Song albums; title: Cost covering; title: Other issues.