Welcome to our second round of insurance terms you, as a performing artist, should know! In case...
Band Management
Learn more about the music business and band management, including music licensing, booking your own DIY tour, music publishing, copyright law, music royalties, music promotion, music distribution and performing rights organizations.
Everything You Need to Know About Clearing Music Samples
WHY YOU NEED A LICENSE I’ve been doing music clearances for going on 20 years, and the main thing...
Get to Know Musicinfo, Your Steaming Connection in China
You know the phrase “We’re BIG in Japan.” It’s always been an inside joke that Western artists can...
Onesheet Launches a New Service for Artists
Onesheet launches simple band web presences to give musicians a consistent and effective online hub amidst the ever-changing environment of social networks. Musicians are constantly having to direct...
Legal Pad: Cloud Computing
Cloud Cover: The Legal Battle Over the Newest Face of the Music Industry OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, APPLE, GOOGLE, AND AMAZON have each rolled out their own unique versions of online locker or...
7 Rules for Effective Social Networking
Part of what motivated me to write this piece is that whenever I read about effective social networking for artists, I saw the same few discussions concentrating on examples of artists who had...
DIY LICENSING: Inside a Music Licensing Office
For many years I have been inundated with questions mostly about copyright. Lately at conferences and in consultations, the overwhelming majority of questions I receive are about music licensing....
Music Industry Execs Partner to Launch Marketing and Sync Licensing Platform Splother
Nashville, TN - April 6, 2011 - Publishing executives Dave Durocher and Steve Toland, along with branding and marketing executive Jason Collins, announce today a partnership in founding Splother, a...
Legal Pad: Mashups in the Modern Copyright Era
The popularity of sampling and mashups is challenging the existing framework of copyright law and has ignited a fierce debate as to whether “transformative” or “de minimis” use of another’s work is...
Legal Pad: Developing Your Band’s Website
TWITTER, FACEBOOK, TUMBLR AND A HOST OF OTHER SITES provide no shortage of free and easy avenues for bands to instantly upload content and receive feedback. Yet it remains important to keep a...
Legal Pad: Band Names & Trademark Law
THE GLOBAL REACH OF THE INTERNET REQUIRES BANDS to be more diligent about intellectual property decisions and protections. Along with copyrights, the “trademark” is a staple of any band’s revenue...
Sennheiser Offers Musicians a Chance to Make Their Mark in Austin
Sennheiser HearIAm Campaign Audio specialist Sennheiser announces the final phase of its HearIAm initiative this March, as the innovative campaign for artists and fans sets its sights on the...
The Art of the Split EP
Going Halfsies Face it; recording your band’s four new songs is going to be expensive, even if Johnny-Down-the-Block cuts you a deal to track in his mom’s bathroom (drums sound great in there)....