Powell wrote:

"hank alrich" wrote

If you're interested in understanding more about
the process check out: This Business of Music,
the Definitive Guide to the Music Industry, 558
pages, cost about $30.

A much better ref for most musos is:

Why? How is it different?

It's much less a lawyer's/executive's/manager's manual and much more a
detailed look at the legal mechanics of the music business from an
inexperienced musician's perspective. Most of it is written in layman's
language and unfolds as the story of a band, what they should have done,
what they did, and the consequences thereof. It is both rich in humor
and irony and also loaded with legalities. It offers actual major label
contracts where only the names of the usurious are altered to avoid
legal repercussions. It details what the record company's language means
in human terms and demonstrates, in language appropriate for such a
contract, what a band or musician might seek instead, almost paragraph
by paragraph.

_The Musician's Business & Legal Guide_
Compiled and Edited by Mark Halloran
Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0-13-237322-X

Add to the short list:
Legal Aspects of the Music Industry, An Insider's
View of the legal and Practical Aspects of the
Music Business by Schulenberg, MSRP $30.

Thanks. I'll get a gander at that.

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