Blog

If you are considering signing with or releasing your music on a label, we highly recommend you hire a skilled entertainment lawyer to assist you throughout the process. However, understanding the components of the deal yourself is equally important and is essential to growing in your career as a musician or producer.

Beyond serving as an identifier, your artist name is a powerful tool for building a brand that has the potential to grow your audience, improve your market appeal, and increase your visibility in the music industry. As you build your music career, it is important to think about how you can protect your musical identity using trademark protection.

Your music generates significantly more revenue than just what you receive from your label or digital distributor. The purpose of this blog is to provide some guidance on the revenue streams associated with your music, empowering you with the knowledge needed to ensure you collect nearly every dollar that your music earns.

If you don’t have a manager or a lawyer on your team, being able to effectively communicate with labels and artists is essential to the growth of your career as you start to get placements. There are a few important points to keep in mind. Let’s break it down, focusing on the advance, royalty, publishing, and credit.

So, you’ve reached the point in your career where you think it would be beneficial to hire someone to manage your project. Where do you start?

When hiring someone to design an album cover art, having the designer sign an agreement stating that the artwork is […]

Recently, it has become common for people to think it’s a good idea to Trademark a celebrity’s name or famous […]

When you’re at the point of your career where it’s time to bring on an attorney to help facilitate your goals and tasks, there are a few steps and questions to consider. However, even before it’s time to bring on a team, knowing the ins and the outs of the music business is an essential way to further your career, make strong choices in various situations, effectively negotiate, and gain respect among peers and labels. Combined with this personal knowledge, the help of a good attorney is the best way to strengthen your career and have someone on your side.

These days, musicians/artists/producers really have so much access to information about the music business that generations before them did not. People have now written books and created newsletters doing deep dives on the subject. A-Level artists and executives have written books detailing their experiences in the industry, while even more are dropping gems on social media.