What they'll never tell you about the music business: the myths, the secrets, the lies (& a few truths)

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Introduction -- Investors -- Advances -- Royalties -- Personal management -- Managing your business and your financial future -- When your job is more than a gig -- Record producers -- Getting your record heard -- Touring concerns -- Merchandising -- Audits -- Music publishing -- When Rodgers meets Hammerstein -- Being your own music publishing company -- Internet entrepreneurship -- Lost, misplaced, neglected, and abandoned -- Urban music -- Classical music -- Termination of grants of copyrights -- Compliance with copyright laws -- Catalogue valuation -- Copyright issues -- Copyright.;Bad news: The music business is packed with hidden agendas. Good news: There's one indispensable guide that helps songwriters, musicians, executives, lawyers, and managers understand the music business and travel its shark-infested waters safely and confidently. What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business sold more than 20,000 copies in its first edition. This new, fully revised edition presents even more priceless insider information, updated for today's music scene, plus clear explanations and advice on the new transparency in agreements, the impact of agent-artist agreements, new webcasting opportunities, changes in copyright law, royalty limits, and all the other developments in law and technology, plus advice for songwriters, A & R people, and artists, and much, much more. Packed with real-world ideas and tips, What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business, Revised and Updated is the must-have guide for creative types and business types'everyone who works in the music industry. "Intelligent and accessible." 'David Geffen From the Hardcover edition.