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

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.