Overview
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Learn to avoid the major music business and legal pitfalls that can break bands apart, such as financial mismanagement and contract disputes.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Who made you the manager?
- Should you use a band partnership agreement?
- Putting together a band partnership agreement
- Who owns your band's name?
- Who owns your band's songs?
- Who owns the equipment?
- Limiting the band's liability
- Contracts
- Finances and taxes
- Touring budgets
- Protecting copyrights
- Recording
- Affiliating with collection organizations
- Protecting your band name
- Artwork
- Hiring a lawyer
- Next steps
