Overview
How to make your band a business success
Whether you’re recording an album, budgeting a tour, or livestreaming concerts, you need solid information to make the right legal and business choices.
Music Law is the all-in-one guide you need. Written by musician and lawyer Rich Stim, it explains everything you need to:
- write a partnership agreement
- buy and insure equipment
- use samples and do covers
- register your band’s name
- sell and license your music
- get royalties for streaming and downloads
- get gigs and get paid
- promote your band on social media
- find the right manager and write a fair contract
- protect your copyright
- avoid legal problems when using a recording studio, and
- negotiate record contracts.
This is the most useful business and legal guide for bands and independent musicians that you can buy. Completely updated to provide the latest in the law and current business practices, it covers music licensing and trends in livestreaming and other new revenue sources.
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