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The Online Guitar Store - All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.2373
EAN: 9780684870649
ISBN: 0684870649
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2000-10-03
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Now in its fourth edition, All You Need to Know About the Music Business is universally regarded as the definitive guide to the music industry. Called "the industry bible" by the Los Angeles Times, this newest edition is filled with vital information on the technological advances that are reshaping the business, and how novices and experts alike should manage such changes. 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 want a career as a performer, writer, or executive, Donald Passman's comprehensive guide to the legal and financial aspects of the business is an indispensable tool. Drawing on his unique professional experience as one of the most respected advisors in the industry, Passman offers authoritative, up-to-the-minute information. You'll learn 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 your success
Master the big picture and the finer points of record deals
Understand the ins and outs of songwriting, music publishing, and copyrights
Maximize concert, touring, and merchandising deals
Plus, this latest edition includes information on: The power of the Internet -- from promotional and com- mercial web sites such as Amazon or CDNow to the publicity advantages of chat rooms, bulletin boards and ever-improving Webcasters (the Internet's answer to radio), and the serious dangers of piracy
The new and changing laws of the electronic frontier, including copyright infringement, illegal downloads, and the challenges to intellectual property rights
Recognizing the opportunities offered by digital downloads, MP3, and other new media which will be the future of music
There are also updates on traditional industry matters such as royalties, advances, video budgets, and copyright law. The music industry can be a gold mine, a minefield, or both, but with a small investment of time in learning the business, you can reap huge benefits. All You Need to Know About the Music Business shows you how.
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Summary: Speaks where other authors keep silent
Comment: 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.
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Summary: All you need to know about the music business: 6th edition
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Fantastic read for anyone in the music business
Comment: This book is great for all of those new artists in the music industry.
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Summary: Extremely Informational
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Don't get taken to the cleaners!
Comment: 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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