Table of 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)

About the Author

Mark Halloran