Music Law

Start Your Music Business is a simple guide for songwriters, producers, music publishers, independent record labels, artists, bands, musicians, and individuals in the music industry who want to legally start and grow a successful music business.

You can learn to play music, no matter what you've been told about your musical talent or aptitude. With the right instruction and methods, learning to play music can be an endless source of joy and fulfillment. And learning to play music isn't just fun, it's also the ideal brain fitness activity. Dr. Turknett, a neurologist, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of Brainjo and the Brainjo Method of instruction, distills the principles of learning to play music down into a set of universal "laws" that can be applied to any instrument.

Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.

Do you dream of being on stage, a rock star shredding like a lawn mower, or serenading your loved ones with melodies that flow from the very depths of your soul? Let this guide be the bridge to those dreams. Just a short while ago, my dream was distant, like a fading star. I had a passion, a desire to sing and play, but I hit wall after wall. Every time I tried to learn, I felt more and more disconnected from the world of music. But destiny had another plan.

If you’re reading this, odds are that you’re already producing music and have a solid body of work ready to go. But do you know how to protect your music? This book was written to give up and coming producers a guide to understanding copyright law as it applies to producing music. You could buy a couple of law textbooks and try to navigate through the legal lingo, but it could take weeks of study to get the information you need. This guide does it for you and breaks down the basics that you need to know- without the extra stuff that isn’t important at this stage in your career. ...

Do you want to make better music? How about achieving a professional sound? Or even being able to work in professional studios? Most musicians dream of making professional sounding music. But in order to create great music, they need to understand the steps and tools involved. With proper skill development, creativity, and knowledge, anyone can reach that professional level. This audiobook will show you how, whether you want to build a studio, work in one, start a label, or just make better music.

Katie Green has big dreams. She's had them since she can remember and she has the lists to prove it. They include: Go to college. Graduate. Go to law school. Graduate. Don't date musicians! Become a lawyer. Marry. Stay married. Become partner at a law firm. Have three children. Buy a home. Raise children. Stay married. Be a good mom. She's accomplished the first four goals on her list and has no doubt the rest will be accomplished soon.

In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global’s entertainment empire hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer, which placed Sumner’s deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light.

Most up and comers don’t realize it, but trademarks are very important for anyone looking to establish a brand in the music industry. Just like copyrights protect your music, a trademark protects your name and logo, and can protect your likeness from being bootlegged. In short, a trademark means that no one can make money by pretending to be you. As usual, we’ve taken the legal jargon out and explained concepts in a simple manner that will be easy to understand. This guide is not as long as Copyright for Producers or Music Theory for Producers, but it could be just as valuable.

FREE Bonus Book Included!! Music Business Bundle: These 4 books are designed to help the Independent Artist succeed! Do you want to build your own mini studio so you can craft your own songs at your own pace? Do you want to learn how to set up your own music publishing and license your songs to the TV and Film industry? Do you want to learn how to book your own successful European tour and take your music overseas? If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then “Music Business Bundle” is the book bundle for you! This guide was specifically created for musicians who want to...

Music industry veteran, entertainment attorney, and university educator Vince Wilcox offers aspiring artists and established business professionals alike an understandable and engaging overview of current music industry law in the United States. This resource is organized into four modules: Legal Basics: How laws are enacted by legislatures and enforced by the courts in both civil and criminal proceedings. Includes the evolution of music laws in the U.S. Music Copyright Laws: How the exclusive rights of copyright holders are legally protected, licensed, monetized, and litigated. Music ...

A mainstream sales book has yet to fully explore the linkages between the law of attraction and effective selling. As it applies to sales, this knowledge was hidden for decades within plain sight in self-help texts like The Secret, Think & Grow Rich, and As a Man Thinketh. Every savvy rep is already knee-deep into understanding some flavor of this material. However, you may still need practical tools to directly apply it as an operating system to create massive results in your daily lives.

Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear - part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify - and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world."

Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights - such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections.

This is a collection of stories drawn from many different tribes of Native Americans. Although the different lifestyles of these varied peoples dictate widely different types of story, they are united by a common belief in the spiritual power of the natural world and the magic that inhabits all living things. Stars and animals speak, wizards and giants cast wicked spells and young heroes and heroines brave all dangers to come home safe in the end.

All these questions are answered in this comprehensive special report that promotes spreading the gospel and honoring the creative people who help to make all church ministries possible. Pass this report on to songwriters, musicians, worship pastors, and church leadership so they are informed about current copyright laws and the practices of paying for the use of intellectual property.

Enjoy the enthralling world of street performance, also known as busking. Packed with insights and inspiration for buskers, their fans, and people who are just curious about the many faces of street performance. Covers musicians, circus routines (jugglers, fire dancers, tight-wire) and street theater (puppeteers, mime, cosplay, human statues). Guitarists in the boisterous fish market of the Pacific Northwest; didgeridoo virtuosi on the Melbourne malls; classical quartets in the London Underground--there is no end to the variations. Ranging from Bach to the often zany Art of Noise covers, ...

Verdi writes to his publisher about a man who hated Aida so much that he wants his money back. Keith Richards tells his aunt about bumping into a former schoolmate named Mick Jagger, who also loves Chuck Berry. Yo-Yo Ma wonders whether Leonard Bernstein remembers introducing him onstage as a young boy. A Harvard psychiatrist begs CVS to change their on-hold music. Riffing on their passions and surroundings, the artists and entertainers in this volume candidly reveal the sources of their inspiration, what music means to them, why they create it, and so much more.

Many of our assumptions about empathy, sensual pleasure, and the essence of work, community, country, race, and the divine have germinated in Bob Dylan's need to know what's blowing in the wind and how it feels. Tracing his work and vision through themes that have shaped religious and cultural history for millennia, Stephen Daniel Arnoff uncovers how Bob Dylan has re-enchanted ancient questions of meaning and purpose throughout popular culture, inspiring a pantheon of prophetic musicians along the way.

Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion. Stohn, who has been at the heart of the entertainment industry for over forty years, shares a lifetime of experience and unique insights into how dreams are turned into reality.