All posts tagged "copyright law"
3 of the Most Commonly Misunderstood Music Copyright Laws
Some of the people whose work is most intimately affected by copyright law are musicians, yet there are many misconceptions and even outright falsehoods circulating...
How to Start Your Own Publishing Company
At its core, a music publisher’s job is to administer the copyrights in songs and license your work to record labels, radio stations, filmmakers, advertisers,...
Download Performer’s FREE Legal Guide to the Music Business
Performer‘s committed to bringing you the most useful advice when it comes to your career. That’s why we’re bringing you the second installment in our...
How to Keep Tabs on Your Record Label’s Books
IF YOU’RE SIGNED TO A LABEL, THE MONEY YOU EARN FROM RECORD SALES doesn’t flow directly from your supporters to your pocket like it did...
LEGAL PAD: Stealing Your Way Up The Charts
The website www.ThatSongSoundsLike.com is dedicated to one mission: placing similar sounding audio clips from well-known artists side-by-side. With hundreds of submissions posted over six years,...
LEGAL PAD: The End of the First Sale Doctrine?
AS A MUSICIAN, YOU WILL BUY AND SELL HUNDREDS OF ITEMS over the course of your career. From instruments to gear, tour vans to used...
Copyright Alert System: Can the Music Industry End Infringement?
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING HAS ALLOWED COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT to become so commonplace that enforcement of the law is nearly impossible. Lawmakers and the recording industry have...
Business Models of Pirating Websites Studied by Google in UK
Google and PRS for Music recently commissioned a study from data organization company BAE Systems Detica that discovered commercial purposes behind business models used by...
Catching up with Joe Rut on Recording Live, Copyright Battles & More
Joe Rut Live captures the iconoclastic “psychedelamericana” songwriter at his wryly-humorous best, in front of a sold-out crowd at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall. ...
Legal Pad: Recording Covers & Mechanical Licenses
The compulsory mechanical license is a mechanism that allows anyone to record and distribute your composition (or allow you to make a cover of someone...
