All You Need to Know About the Music Business:

Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Important
Chapter 1: First Steps
Part I: Your Team of Advisors
	Chapter 2: How to Pick a Team
		Getting Your Team Together
		Business Philosophy
		Hiring a Team
		Changing a Team Member
		Cocktail Party Talk
	Chapter 3: Personal Managers
		Role
		Commission Overview
		Negotiating the Manager’s Deal
		Picking the Right Manager
	Chapter 4: Business Managers
		Role
		How to Pick a Business Manager
		Business Manager Checklist
		Fees
		Your Half of the Job
	Chapter 5: Attorneys
		Picking a Lawyer
		Fees
		Conflicts of Interest
		Attorney Checklist
	Chapter 6: Agents
		Role
		Fees
		Deal Points
		Picking an Agent
Part II: Record Deals
	Chapter 7: Broad-Strokes Overview of the Record Business
		Industry Structure
		A Word About Retailers
		Do You Need a Record Label?
		What’s a Record?
		Masters/Recordings
		Royalty Computation
	Chapter 8: Advances and Recoupment
		Advances: The Basic Concept
		Other Goodies
		Cross-Collateralization
	Chapter 9: Real-Life Numbers
		Overview
		Royalties
		Advances
		360 Rights
	Chapter 10: Other Major Deal Points
		Amount of Product
		How Long?
		Delivery Requirements
		Guaranteed Release
		Controlled Compositions
		Greatest Hits
		Live Albums
		Independents Day
	Chapter 11: Producer and Mixer Deals
		What’s a Producer?
		Royalties
		Advances
		Other Royalty Computations
		Who Hires the Producer?
		Mixers
	Chapter 12: Advanced Royalty Computations
		Royalties for the United States
		Foreign Royalties
		R.O.W.
		Electronic Transmissions
		On-Demand Streaming
		Downloads
		Non-Interactive Streaming and Satellite Radio
		Video Streaming
		Samples
		Guest Artists, Featured Artists, and Joint Recordings
		Apps
		Video Games
		Web3, the Metaverse, NFTs, and Things That Go Bump in the Night
		Bundles
		Television and Other Advertising
		Podcasts
		Multiple Albums/Box Sets
		Profit Share
		Dearly Departing Contract Clauses
		DVDs
		Accountings
	Chapter 13: Advanced Record Deal Points
		Exclusivity
		Websites/Social Media
		Single-Song Videos
		Independent Promotion and Radio Concerts
		Merchandising Rights
		Tour Support
		Territory
		Creative, Marketing, and Other Controls
		Artwork
		Union Exploitation Charges
		Loan-Out Deals
	Chapter 14: Independent Production, Label, and Distribution Deals
		Independent Production Agreements
		Joint Ventures/Profit Share
		Distribution Deals
		Label Services Deals
		Upstream Deals
Part III: Songwriting and Music Publishing
	Chapter 15: Copyright Basics
		Basic Copyright Concepts
		What Are All These Rights You Get?
		Exceptions to the Copyright Monopoly
		Compulsory Mechanical Licenses
	Chapter 16: Publishing Companies and Major Income Sources
		Publishing Overview
		Sources of Income
		Public Performance Royalties
		More About Mechanical Royalties
		Streaming and Downloads
		Music Modernization Act
	Chapter 17: Even More Publishing Income
		Synchronization and Transcription Licenses
		Samples
		Foreign Subpublishing
		Printed Music
		Controlled Composition Clauses
		Maximum Rate per Song
		Maximum Rate per Album, EPs, and Singles
	Bonus Section!
		How to Set Up a Publishing Company
	Double Bonus Section!!
		Hey, Kids, Let’s Sell a Catalog!
	Chapter 18: Songwriter, Co-Publishing, and Administration Deals
		Songwriter Agreements
		What’s in the Pot?
		Charges Against Royalties
		Copyright Ownership
		Single-Song Contracts
		Term Songwriter Agreements
		Pop Quiz
		Co-writes (Songs Written by Two or More Writers)
		Creative Control
		Reversion of Copyright
		Administration Agreements
		Co-administration Agreements
		Now Look Where You Are!
	Chapter 19: Advanced Copyright Concepts
		Who Owns the Copyright?
		Works for Hire
		Duration of Copyright
		Right of Termination
		Public Performance of Recordings
		What Happens When Someone Rips Off Your Copyright?
		Artifical Intelligence and Monkey Selfies
	Chapter 20: Even More Advanced Copyright Concepts
		Sound Recording Copyrights
		How to Terminate a Copyright Transfer in Your Spare Time, for Fun and Profit
		Extension Rights
		The Copyright Notice
		Registration and Deposit
		Moral Rights
Part IV: Group Issues
	Chapter 21: Groups
		Group Provisions in Record Deals
		Trivia Quiz
		Internal Group Deals
	Chapter 22: What’s in a Name?
		Rights in a Name
		Registration
Part V: Touring
	Chapter 23: Personal Appearances—Touring
		Roles of Team Members
		Marketing
		Personal Appearance Deals
		New Artists
		Internet Phenoms
		Midlevel Artists
		Heritage Acts
		Superstar Touring
		VIP Ticketing
		Sponsorship
		Hall Fees
		Riders
		I’ll Take the Whole Thing…
		Multi-Show Deals
		Lining Your Pockets with More Gold
Part VI: Merchandising
	Chapter 24: Tour Merchandising
		Tour Merchandisers
		Royalties
		Hall Fees
		Advances
		Term
		Advance Repayment
		Exclusivity
		Creative Control
		Exclusions
		Sell-off Rights
		Bootleggers
	Chapter 25: Retail, Direct to Consumer (D2C) Merchandising, and Fan Clubs
		Retail Merchandising
		Royalties
		Other Deal Points
		Direct to Consumer (D2C) (E-commerce/Web Store Sales)
		Fan Clubs
		Caution
Part VII: Classical Music
	Chapter 26: Classical Music
		Term and Product
		Royalties
		Advances
		Mechanical Royalties
		Marketing Tie-ins
Part VIII: Motion Picture Music
	Chapter 27: Overview of Motion Picture Music
		Introduction
		One Song—Eight Deals
		The Rights Involved
	Chapter 28: Performer Deals
		Overview
		Performance in the Film (No Record Rights)
		Record Rights to Film Performances
	Chapter 29: Film Songwriter Deals
		Terminology
		Deal Points
	Chapter 30: Composer Agreements
		Deal Points
		Package Deals
		Creative Financing
		Television Composers
		Video Game Composers
	Chapter 31: Licensing Existing Recordings and Existing Songs for Motion Pictures
		Recording Licenses
		Licensing Existing Musical Compositions for Films
		Film Music Quiz
	Chapter 32: Music Supervisors
		Role
		Motion Picture Supervisor Fees and Royalties
		Television Supervisors
	Chapter 33: Soundtrack Record Deals
		Score Albums
		Song Albums
		Other Issues
Appendix: Ye Olde Royalty Calculations
Conclusion
About the Author
Index
Copyright