Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business - Softcover

Stim Attorney, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413325602 ISBN 13: 9781413325607

Publisher: NOLO, 2018

How to make your band a huge business success

Whether you’re recording an album, budgeting a tour, or insuring your vintage guitar, 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, insure, and maintain equipment
• use samples and do covers
• register your band’s name
• sell and license your music
• get royalties for streaming and downloads
• deal with taxes and deductions
• find the right manager and write a fair contract
• get gigs and get paid
• protect your copyright legally
• deal with legal issues in the recording studio, and
• understand record contracts.
  

This is quite simply the best business and legal guide for bands ever written. Completely updated to provide the latest in the law and current business practices, it covers music licensing and trends affecting the digital-music scene.

Book Description:

This is the all-purpose music business book that explains how to find the right manager, establish fair band partnership agreements, buy and maintain equipment, get gigs and get paid, tour on a budget, deal with taxes and insurance, use samples and do covers legally, protect your copyright and band’s name, and sell and license your music.

About the Author:

Richard Stim is a lawyer and the author of several Nolo books, including Music Law, Getting Permission , Profit From Your Ideas , and Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Desk Reference.

• Publisher: NOLO
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1413325602
• ISBN 13: 9781413325607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 568