Webcasts, Downloads & Ringtones, oh my!

Webcasts, Downloads & Ringtones, oh my!

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Whether you are an artist, manager, lawyer, record executive, or producer this music business overview is essential to understanding the new income streams available to the recording artist. Major label and indie label recording agreements will be discussed and analyzed as they relate to new income streams such as digital downloading, webcasting royalties, mobile music deals, video games and certain types of branding.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Whether you are an artist, manager, lawyer, record executive, or producer this music business overview is essential to understanding the new income streams available to the recording artist. Major label and indie label recording agreements will be discussed and analyzed as they relate to new income streams such as digital downloading, webcasting royalties, mobile music deals, video games and certain types of branding.

  • Eight MAJOR Areas of Negotiation in a Record Deal
  • 5 Areas that Affect an Artist’s Royalty
  • Determining the Artist Royalty With a Major Label Deal
  • iTunes Artist-Producer Royalty Calculation
  • Mobile Music Deals: Income Breakdowns and Deal Points
  • Webcasting Royalties
  • Public Performance Royalties for Internet Licenses
  • Video Game Deal Points

NOTE: The handout for this program is updated to reflect changes to the law as of November 2006.  Dina conducted this workshop for NARIP in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.  Each time she gives the workshop, we update these materials to reflect changes in the industry landscape and the law.

NARIP PROGRAM NUMBER: W22
PROGRAM DATE:May 16, 2006
PROGRAM TIME: 2 hours and 20 minutes (140 min)
QUESTIONS? Call 818-769-7007 or contact NARIP
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Dina LaPolt is an entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. in Los Angeles and is on the Attorney-Manager Advisory Board for AFTRA. Her boutique entertainment firm specializes in representing clients in the music, film, television, and book publishing industries. Dina also teaches at UCLA Extension and the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, speaks regularly on panels at music industry conferences nationwide, and still has time to perform in her all girl rock band.

Dina’s Rule: “When negotiating record deals, pay close attention to the provisions of a recording agreement that will help create a career rather than those provisions that will not generate any income unless a career is created.”

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Program music courtesy of The G-Man (Golosio Music Publishing, BMI)

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