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Music Law: Run Your Band's Business Sixth Edition

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If you belong to a band and love the art of your job, but sing the blues when it comes to the business, you need Music Law. Composed by musician and lawyer Richard Stim, the book explains how to: find the right manager; buy, insure and maintain equipment; get gigs and get paid; tour on a budget; use samples; do covers legally; protect your copyright; trademark your band’s name; choose a recording studio; sell your music; manage your website; understand record contracts; deal with taxes. The best guide available for bands today, Music Law provides all the legal information and practical advice musicians need to keep from getting burned. All legal forms and agreements included, as tearouts and on CDROM.
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    1413310567
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    978-1413310566
  3. Edition
    Sixth
  4. Publisher
    NOLO
  5. Publication date
    October 5, 2009
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.1 x 0.93 x 8.92 inches
  8. Print length
    421 pages
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About the Author

Author and attorney Richard Stim is a member of the cult band, MX-80 which has been cited as an influence by a wide range of artists from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth to recording artist Steve Albini. In addition to performing and recording with MX-80 and Angel Corpus Christi, Richard Stim specializes in small business, copyrights, patents and trademark issues at Nolo and has authored many books, including Profit From Your Idea and Patent, Copyright & Trademark. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ NOLO; Sixth edition (October 5, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 421 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1413310567
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1413310566
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 0.93 x 8.92 inches
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Ramiro Sosa
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
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Great information & you have CD room all form of copyright
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Brio Grampa
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book on Music Business
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2014
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This is a great book for understanding music law, copyrights, starting a band. I am about half way through the book, and all I can say is that I wish I had bought this book years ago. It has really helped me understand the music business better as well as business in general. I highly recommend this book to anyone who writes, records, and copyrights songs or is thinking of starting a band and keeping it together. You won't be disappointed...
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The Gorgeous JR
5.0 out of 5 stars Gives you the rules to the Music Game
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2008
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I came in not knowing much of anything about the music industry...and after reading this book from cover to cover (its a long book), I can say I learned a lot. The book is very easy to read, with real and made-up examples, and simple language. The author does a great job breaking down the rules of the industry. It does not tell you how to run your operation or how to market a hit record...it just lays out all the rules for you to either follow, break, or bend.

The best chapters were about song ownership, copyrights, publishing, royalties, and taxes. Actually, the taxes chapter was really enlightening. You can tell a lawyer wrote this book from that chapter.
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Jeff
4.0 out of 5 stars I never thought Rock 'N Roll would be so taxing
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2011
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I'm in a band that is making the transition from being a hobby to being a business and I was looking everywhere for proper information, but all the books I found were actual small business books and not tailor made for bands and musicians. NOW, in all fairness, starting a band business is no different than a small business, but this book goes into the details that only pertain to musicians -- same info in other Nolo books on accounting, LLCs, etc - so if you have any of their other series of small business books, the same content is covered here.

THE REAL AWESOME stuff in this book are all the contracts and agreements that come with the supplemental CD-ROM. That's incredibly valuable and worth the price of the book alone. You get the essential band agreement, management, record label, copyright, etc. and best of all, you have full chapters that are devoted to walking you through what all the legal lingo means. It's wonderful.

I wish this book had a little more detail about "DBA" - doing business as - because that is something I'm doing now which I hoped was going to be fully covered, but was not.

There needs to be more resources like this one out there for musicians.
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Daniel Mitchem
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2011
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If you think you know it all, buy this book. You'll learn that there is still so much out there to understand. This book is packed with information any bands needs to know. From legal information to general info any small business could benefit from, this book has it all. One of the best things about this book is the accompanying CD. It is jammed full of sample contracts, forms, and legal info.

If you're in a band (at any level), BUY THIS BOOK!
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars very informative!
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2018
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It a good book to start band and maybe learn music business.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good material and very informative for very song writer and ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2014
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Very good material and very informative for very song writer and musician! This book is what I have been waiting to find! believe me.. you need it! good purchase !
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Rebecca
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough overview of many topics
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2013
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This book has given us a great deal of information for our band's business. It covers a broad base of topics. I keep referring back to it time and time again.
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Private
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book - really worth buying
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2015
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Good Book - really worth buying.
I would have given it a 5, but while you can use most of the forms presented, there are some you have to modify to conform to British music law as opposed to American music law. Despite that, its still a good reference book.
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