Product DescriptionFor 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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Speaks where other authors keep silent
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 ... Read More
Rating: - All you need to know about the music business: 6th edition
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.
Rating: - Fantastic read for anyone in the music business
This book is great for all of those new artists in the music industry.
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Rating: - Extremely Informational
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!
Rating: - Don't get taken to the cleaners!
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 ... Read More
- Speaks where other authors keep silent
