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Author:Donald S. Passman Publisher:Free Press Studio:Free Press Manufacturer:Free Press Label:Free Press Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Edition: 6 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 464 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.4
Product Description For fifteen years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been universally regarded as the definitive, essential guide to the music industry. Now in its sixth edition, it has been completely revised and updated with crucial, up-to-the-minute information on the industry's major changes in response to today's rapid technological advances and uncertain economy. Veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is in the thick of this transformation and understands that anyone involved in the music business is feeling the deep, far-reaching effects of it. This latest edition of what the Los Angeles Times called "the industry bible" will lead novices and experts alike through the fundamental practices as well as the new, uncharted territory of one of this country's most dynamic industries.
In the music business, the key to success lies in knowing how to protect yourself. To do that, you need the best and most up-to-date advice available. Whether you are -- or aspire to be -- a performer, writer, or executive, Passman's comprehensive guide to the legal and financial aspects of the music world is an indispensable tool. Drawing on his unique professional experience as one of the most trusted advisors in the industry, Passman offers authoritative information on how to:
Select and hire a winning team of advisors -- personal and business managers, agents, and attorneys -- and structure their commissions, percentages, and fees in a way that will protect you and maximize these relationships
Master the big picture and the finer points of record deals
Navigate the ins and outs of songwriting, music publishing, and copyrights
Maximize concert, touring, and merchandising deals
This latest edition also includes information on:
Music downloads, webcasting, streaming-on-demand, and podcasting
The new video streaming services
How royalties are computed in the digital age
The latest developments in deals with independent labels, including upstream deals
Updates on all the traditional industry matters, such as royalties, advances, video budgets, and copyright law
In All You Need to Know About the Music Business, one of the industry's most influential figures shows you how to thrive in the most exciting business in the world. It's a book that no musician, entertainment lawyer, agent, promoter, publisher, manager, record company executive -- anyone who makes their living from music -- can afford to be without.
Speaks where other authors keep silent November 15, 2008 Don Passman speaks, where other authors keep silent. This book is a "must read" for any artist who doesn't want to fail on his way up...
The author not only explains the mechanics of the music business and how all the entities are contractually related one to each other, but also states numbers. Information, that I wasn't able to find anywhere else.
If it is important to you to get what you should get, read this first! I am aware of several artists who didn't even get half of what they could.
All you need to know about the music business: 6th edition October 20, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Awesome. Easy to read. Clearly and methodically organized. Extremely helpful at any level of the music profession but especially near the beginning of your career because the book explains how to run your own music business independently from large producers, if you are up to the challenge. It is the best source of a variety of resources: Who's who, legalities and future choices that must be made.
Fantastic read for anyone in the music business September 15, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great for all of those new artists in the music industry. HTTP://WWW.LANDONEASLEY.COM
Extremely Informational September 2, 2008 This book is lterally a page turner. No matter if you are an Indie Aritst. Song Wirter, Producer, or even own your own label this book detailed knowledge explaining all the legal asspects of the game. basically how you get paid, how to protect yourself, and what you should ask for when making deals. It also gives tips on how to negotiate contracts (record deals), red flags, loop holes, ect. Just read it!
Don't get taken to the cleaners! August 23, 2008 The whole point of the book is to keep you from getting screwed, and it catalogs every possible way in which everyone in the music business - from record companies to publishers to promoters and everyone in between - can and will try to take a big chunk of your music earnings. It doesn't have sample contracts with long boring explanations, it just tells you the salient negotiating points and where various artists (emerging, mid-level, and superstars; majors vs. independent) generally end up in terms of compensation, what you should hold out for in your negotiations, etc.
Although the book reads like a 'parade of horribles' for the music industry, and may make you reconsider your desire to become involved in the business of music, the book is really intended for people who are going to be negotiating contracts with powerful interests. Passman gives you the confidence that, when and if the time comes where you have to negotiate important deals, you will have a place to turn to get an honest appraisal of the deal you are being offered, where it might be improved, what others are getting, etc.
Highly recommended for anyone in the business. If you are an artist with a "team" of professionals helping you (chapter one of the book discusses this team) this book really could be "all you need to know about the music business." If you are going to be on the employer side of the business creating contracts, the book still makes a great companion text to something like "This Business of Music" which includes sample contracts and more lengthy expositions but lacks the critical insights to protect your bottom line. If you are going the D.I.Y. route, this book is probably less important to you than Bob Baker's Guerilla Music Marketing Handbook, as promotion and publicity are everything at first, but it would still be a good reference tool, if only to prove to yourself you've made the right decision by rejecting the bad deals shady labels are offering you.
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