The Musician's Business and Legal Guide

Contents

• Part I: Getting Started - Music as a Business
• 1. Entertainment Group Names: Selection and Protection (Stephen Bigger)
• 2. Business Entities (Edward R. Hearn)
• 3. How to Set Up a Money Deal for Your Music Project (Edward R. Hearn)
• 4. Music Attorneys (Mark Halloran)
• Part II: Protecting Your Compositions
• 5. Music Copyright: A Search for Certainty (Mark Halloran)
• 6. Sampling (Greg "Skins" Victoroff)
• 7. Collaborator/Songwriter Agreements (Mark Halloran and Edward R. Hearn)
• 8. Digital Downloads and Streaming: Copyright and Distribution Issues (Edward R. Hearn)
• 9. YouTube Music (Mark Halloran and Edward R. Hearn)
• 10. International Copyright (E. Scott Johnson)
• Part III: Music Publishing
• 11. Performing Rights Organizations in the United States: An Overview (Mark Halloran and Diane Rapaport)
• 12. Music Publishing (Neville L. Johnson and Bernard M. Resnick)
• Part IV: Managers and Agents
• 13. What a Manager Does (Alfred Schlesinger)
• 14. Analysis of a Personal Management Agreement (Neville L. Johnson and Bernard M. Resnick)
• 15. Talent Agents: New Thinking on an Old Business (Matthew Burrows and Kelly Weiss)
• 16. Club Contracts (Edward R. Hearn)
• 17. TV Talent Competitions: The Legacy of American Idol (Mark Halloran and Thomas A. White)
• Part V: Recording
• 18. Independent Record Labels and Record Deals (Loren S. Wells)
• 19. Recording and Distribution Contracts with Independent and Major Labels (Edward R. Hearn)
• 20. Producer Agreements are Stupid (Daniel K. Stuart)
• 21. How 360 Deals Became Necessary and How to Negotiate Them (Daniel K. Stuart)
• 22. Social Media Law for Musicians (Stephanie Furgang Adwar)
• 23. Royalty Statements: Audits and Lawsuits (Steven Ames Brown)