What are Neighboring Rights?
Why We Wrote This Guide Music Business World reported in 2016 that neighboring rights account for over $2 billion in revenue ...
What is Rights Management?
Why we wrote this guide This guide describes the role of a digital rights manager, the value they provide, and ...
What is a Recording Artist?
Why We Wrote This Guide Recording artists and composers create the foundations of the music industry: compositions and recordings. An understanding of ...
What is a Mechanical License?
Why We Wrote This Guide For over a century now, American copyright law has worked to create and maintain a ...
What is a Record Label?
Why We Wrote This Guide Record labels have been around nearly as long as recorded sound. For years, being signed ...
Types of Music Releases
Why We Wrote This Guide Albums, singles, LPs, EPs, mixtapes, compilations — the music industry uses a whole host of ...
Music Industry Contracts
Why We Wrote This Guide Contracts are the primary tools that entities in the music industry use to enter into ...
What is a Songwriter?
Why we wrote this guide While there has never truly been a standardized or traditional approach to becoming a songwriter ...
What is a Music Publisher?
Why we wrote this guide The purpose of this guide is to give the reader a fundamental understanding of what ...
Major vs. Indie
Why We Wrote This Guide The terms “major” and “indie” (independent) can be applied to many different entities in the ...
