Music Licensing Money

I recommend Kohn On Music Licensing to anyone interested in learning all about music licensing. This is pretty much the bible for Music Licensing with so much detail on everything to do with music licensing. Here’s a sampling of what you get with this book:

- Walks the reader through the history of the music publishing business, from Tin Pan Alley to the user-generated content phenomena of the present.
- Dissects the songwriter agreement, providing the reader with a clause-by-clause analysis and offering the best negotiating strategies to achieve the best possible outcome for their clients.
- Guides the reader through the complexities of co-publishing agreements, administration agreements, and international subpublishing agreements, with a report on the rapidly changing music licensing landscape in Europe.
- Takes on the intricacies of licensing music in sound recordings, from the traditional CD format to the newer delivery methods, including downloads, streams, ringtones and ringbacks including the rates and terms used in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
- Confronts the pitfalls of licensing music for audiovisual works (synchronization licenses) using history as a guide, from the early talkies through streaming internet content.
- Explores new media and its impact on the licensing process.
- Technological developments have forced the industry to rethink licenses when dealing with videogames, computer software, karaoke, and digital print (including downloadable sheet music, lyric database websites, and digital guitar tabs).
- Sizes up the digital sampling controversy and offers up suggestions for negotiating licenses for digital samples.
- Explores the ever-evolving concept of Fair Use and its application to the music industry.
- Provides the reader with a look at the landscape of licensing fees, including going rates for synch, print, radio & TV advertising, new media, and other licenses, to assist in negotiating the best rates for their clients.
- Proven tips and suggestions, along with the most up-to-date analysis, are given for the technical aspects of music licensing, from the perspective of both the rights owners and prospective licensees, including How to clear a license.
- Advice on maximizing the value of your music copyrights.
- Formalities of licensing.
- Duration of copyright, renewal and termination of grants.
- Typical fees, and more.
Turn to this valuable resource for more than 160 forms and sample license agreements available on the companion CD-ROM.

So I highly recommend anyone interested in learning about music licensing. Once you have this book you might save on attorney’s fees and make real music licensing money. Literally they’ll teach you a whole lot in this book, lot’s of valuable information.

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by Sebastian Samuels

What do I mean by the little details? It means you have to fully take on the role of musician. Act like one, be one! Over and over again we had bands contact us with oddball email addresses. We wondered about how legit the person contacting us were? Are these guys really in a band, is this a scam a joke? The email was not from an email address with a bands website domain but just some oddball email address that has nothing to do with the band at aol.com or something like that. Maybe hotmail or yahoo.

That comes off like it’s coming from a person not too serious about their music. It feels like it’s coming from a person who doesn’t really care about first impressions. This person is not too serious about their music and that’s why they haven’t paid the ten dollars a year which is only what it would cost for a domain name for their band.

I think having a bands domain name address is very, very important. Much more important than having a myspace page which most bands have these days. Yes Myspace is important for networking and such but a personalized domain name is much more information. Pay the 10 dollars a year and get 5 dollar a month hosting plan and get your bands website set up. It’s really easy. A lot of hosting companies offer free web templates or do it yourself. I think WordPress is even an awesome tool (which is what I’m using to write this blog) and you can put together your own website that will look very professional with WordPress and their free templates.

Use your domain email address versus some generic name you came up with at gmail or yahoo dot com. The more professional you come off to your clients the more chances you will be noticed and the more music licensing opportunities you will have at licensing your music and making money!

Makes sense right?

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