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Music Law Defined
Music law consists of a wide variety of legal concepts, rules, statutes, regulations, case law, practices, customs, and legal principles which have a particular application to the creation, production, distribution, and/or marketing of musical intellectual properties.
Music law includes, but is not limited to some of the following examples:
- Clearing sampling rights
- Concert promotion
- Counseling and representing record labels, music publishers, producers,
recording artists and songwriters. - Merchandising
- Music licensing for video games
- Music royalties collection
- Negotiating and drafting band agreements
- Negotiating and drafting music licenses (including synchronization, mechanical,
master use, and performing rights licenses). - Negotiating and drafting recording, publishing, producing, and tour-related agreements.
- Negotiating with ASCAP and BMI
- Negotiating with performing rights organizations.
- Podcast advertising contracts.
- Talent management and agent contracts
- Trademarking band names logos
- Work-For-Hire agreements between movie producers and scoring musicians.