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| The Pros vs. the Artists | ||||
| The Pros | ||||
| Lawyers | ||||
| Conflicts of Interest | ||||
| A&R | ||||
| A&R at the Indie Level | ||||
| Managers | ||||
| Publicists, Booking Agents, Tour Managers, Image Consultants | ||||
| The Creators | ||
| Musicians | ||
| The Survivor | ||
| The Jobber | ||
| Songwriters | ||
| Engineers | ||
| Artists | ||
| Producers | ||
| The Artist/Producer Conflict | ||
| Control Freaks | ||
| Counteracting The Effects Of The Control Freak | ||
| Companies, Companies, Companies | |
| Record Companies | |
| Production Companies | |
| Publishing Companies | |
| Performance Rights Organizations | |
| Musicians' Unions | |
| Publicity Companies | |
| Independent Promotion Companies | |
| Distribution Companies | |
| Rights Clearing Houses | |
| Harry Fox Agency | |
| The Deal | ||
| Understanding Distribution or Why are there so many logos on the record? |
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| Introduction | ||
| The Big Six | ||
| What is a real Independent label? | ||
| One Deep and Two Deep Labels | ||
| The Major Label Deal | ||
| The Major Label Deal From The Artist's Point Of View | ||
| Recoupable Financing-The Moving Goal post | ||
| The Big Deal Real Deal Numbers | ||
| But how long does it take to see some money? | ||
| Egghead Box I | ||
| Packaging Deductions & Giveaways | ||
| Breakage-The 90% Rule | ||
| The 3/4 royalty | ||
| Egghead Box II | ||
| In The Hole | ||
| Returns, Reserves & Cutouts | ||
| Cross-Collateralization-Robbing Peter To Pay Paul | ||
| Marketing | ||
| Timing success & A&R | ||
| Need And Greed | ||
| Publishing Deals - The 200% Pie or 100% of Something Is Better Than 200$ Of Nothing |
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| Three Quarter Rate | ||
| Publishing Advances, The Interest-Free Loan At 33% Interest | ||
| Egg Head Box III | ||
| Artists Are In The Believer Business | ||
| The Major Label Deal From The Producer's Point Of View | ||
| The "All-in" Deal | ||
| Kickbacks | ||
| Non "All-in " Deals | ||
| The Spec Deal | ||
| When The Producer Wants Publishing | ||
| The Major Label Deal From The Record Company's Point Of View |
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| The Distribution Vig | ||
| Deductions | ||
| To The Writer | ||
| To The Artist | ||
| To Musicians | ||
| Giveaways, Returns and Special Programs | ||
| Packaging & Manufacturing | ||
| One Deep And Two Deep Label's Vig | ||
| Egg Head Box VI - Breakdown of costs to the label | ||
| Image Molding | ||
| A bit of history | ||
| Improving upon the truth | ||
| The Single | ||||
| Who picks the single | ||||
| The Hit Parade Charts & "The Hit Single" | ||||
| Billboard or Bullboard? | ||||
| SoundScan | ||||
| Other types of charts | ||||
| Airplay | ||||
| Promoters and Payola | ||||
| The Birth of the New Indie | ||||
| The Independent Record Deal From The Point Of View Of The Record Company |
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| The P&D Deal | ||||
| The Hot Sheet - How Records Get To The Store | ||||
| Egghead Box V | ||||
| The Independent Record Deal From the Point of View of The Artist |
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| Egghead Box V | ||||
| Publishing and Royalties | ||||
| Speed Trends | ||||
| Super-duper Cross-collateralization | ||||
| The Baby Deal | ||||
| The Artist/Producer Production Deal | ||||
| The Mini Record Deal | ||||
| Watch out! | ||||
| The Joint Venture | ||||
| The "Work for hire" | ||||
| End-zoning - Cutting out the Producer | ||||
| Informal Agreements | ||||
| Contraceptive Contracts | ||||
| The Vanity Label | ||||
| The Virtual Budget & The Virtual Producer's Fee click to read | ||||
| Producer's Compensation Packages | ||||
| Overrides | ||||
| 5% royalty | ||||
| Buy-Outs, or the "Fuck you" clause | ||||
| "Go Away" in a production deal | ||||
| The Producer As a Virtual Partner | ||||
| Where's My Contract? | ||||
| Holding The Masters | ||||
| What You Don't Know Will Hurt You | ||||
| Fucking The Producer, The Re-record | ||||
| Letters Of Direction (LODs) | ||||
| Artist's LODs | ||||
| Wrap up - Who Earned What? | ||||
| Artist/Writer | ||||
| Touring | ||||
| Producer | ||||
| Record Company | ||||
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| The Myths Of Copyright Protection or "Hey, They Stole My Song" |
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| Suing Stars | ||
| Mick Jagger and "She's The Boss" | ||
| New Kids On The Block and "All My Love" | ||
| Michael Bolton and "How am I Supposed to Live Without You" | ||
| 2 Live Crew and Pretty Woman | ||
| What exactly is a copyright? | ||
| George Harrison and "He's So Fine" | ||
| Collecting your money | ||
| Blockage | ||
| Sound-A-likes | ||
| Sample-a-likes | ||
| Master Fraud | ||
| Clears, Cleans and Fake Masters | ||
| Clears | ||
| Cleans | ||
| Soundtrack Scams and So-called CD Samplers | ||
| 9 to 1 publishing (Or, Why Is There Only One Good Song On The Record?) | ||
| Sneaky Lawyer Stuff | ||
| The "I forgot to mark the contract" Trick | ||
| Virtual Terms | ||
| The Little Squeeze | ||
| Legal-ease? click to read | ||
| Decoding of an actual Warner Brothers record contract click to read | ||
| Letters Of Misdirection | ||
| The First Draft Is The Coldest | ||
| "Voted out." The Band as a Corporate Entity | ||
| Miscellaneous Myths And Untruths | ||
| A&R Dogma | ||
| A Good Promotion Kit Is The Key | ||
| Gigging a Lot is Good Exposure To The Industry | ||
| Second Sendings | ||
| "We love it but . . . " | ||
| Labels Sign Bad Acts For Tax Write-offs | ||
| The Mercy Signing | ||
| Production Boners | ||
| You Need A Master Quality Demo To Get A Deal | ||
| You Must Record Your record On 24 or 48 Track Formats | ||
| "We get to say what our album cover, posters etc. will look like" | ||
| Why The Cassettes Sound Muddy | ||
| Marketing Mishigas | ||
| Lots of Airplay Assures Big Record Sales | ||
| Great Reviews Mean Great Record Sales | ||
| Record Industry Slumps Are The Direct Result of Poor A&R Decision Making | ||
| The Virtual Record Store - Will albums be sold on the Internet? | ||
| Getting Credit Where Credit Is Due | ||
| Look For The Union Label | ||
| Major Label Philosophy On Giving Credit To Sidemen and Engineers | ||
| Songwriters Credit | ||
| How to Get Even | ||
| The Co-Production Credit | ||
| Industry Census | ||
| Are All the Powerful People In The Business Jews? | ||
| Women Are Discriminated Against In The Music Business | ||
| The Big Picture | ||
| Do record companies really make any money? | ||
| Lost Leader | ||
| A Map of the Financial Universe | ||
| Record/Pause | ||
| Check List for Disaster | ||
| A Final Word | ||
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