Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies: A Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs

by SteveGordon (Author)

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  2005

  $4.05

  A veteran entertainment lawyer reveals how to turn music notes into bank notes New technologies are revolutionizing the music industry. While peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burning are devastating album sales, they are also creating new opportunities to distribute and sell music. This up-to-date guide focuses on these opportunities as well as new business and digital delivery models, and explains how aspiring musicians, established recording artists, independent labels, and entrepreneurs can all take advantage of the new digital technologies. The book includes a comprehensive discussion of new laws and business practices that apply to online music distribution along with a detailed list of venders and services. This book will replace all prior music business books just as digital distribution of music is replacing the old brick and mortar world of retail sales of CDs. The digital revolution has changed everything in the music business: the deals, the law, how music is produced, how it is distributed and even the very identity of the distributors. This new world of recorded music deserves a book exclusively devoted to illuminating it.

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  Paperback
  2008

  $5.01

  New technologies are revolutionizing the music business. While these changes may be smashing traditional business models and creating havoc among the major record companies, they are also providing new opportunities for unsigned artists, independent labels, and music business entrepreneurs. The Future of the Music Business provides a legal and business road map for success in today's music business by setting forth a comprehensive summary of the rules pertaining to the traditional music business, including music licensing, as well as the laws governing online distribution of music and video. This book also provides practical tips for: selling music online; using blogs and social networks; developing an online record company; creating an Internet radio station; opening an online music store; raising money for recording projects online; creating a hit song in the Digital Age; taking advantage of wireless technologies; and, much more. This revised third edition is the most up-to-date and thorough examination of current trends, and offers special sections on: what to do if someone steals your song; protecting the name of your band or label; how to find and get a music lawyer to shop your music; and, how to land a deal with an indie, or a major label. The accompanying DVD includes a comprehensive lecture, How to Succeed in Today's Music Business , delivered by the author at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.