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Publication ans Presentatons

List of Publications

Contributor, Musician's Business And Legal Guide (1978) (revised seventh version) 2001 Prentice Hall, with contributed articles including:

  • Business Entities.
  • How to Set Up a Money Deal.
  • Digital Downloads and Streaming: Copyright and Distribution Issues.
  • Club Contracts.
  • Recording and Distribution Contracts with Independent Labels.
  • Collaborator/Songwriter Agreements

Co-Author, Musician's Guide to Copyright.

Contributor, How To Make And Sell Your Own Recording, by Diane Rapaport, with contributed articles including:

  • Recording Contracts: Pros and Cons of Making Arrangements with a Recording Label: Distribution Deals; Pressing and Distribution (P & D) Deals; Production Deals; Duration of Contract; Royalties; Performance Sales; Foreign Sales; Recoupment of Expenses and Advances; Financial Statements; Authority to Use Your Name; Merchandising; Promotion; Publishing
  • Financing: Loans; Profit Sharing; Corporate Shares; Complying with Statutes; Evaluating Investors

Samples of Presentations to Various Bar Associations, including the Practicing Law Institute and the San Francisco Bar Association

  • "In-Home, On-Demand, Direct Digital Delivery of Entertainment Content".
  • "Issues To Be Negotiated In Recording Agreements".
  • "Content Clearances For DVD Magazines".
  • "Music On The Internet: Understanding New Rights And Solving New Problems".
  • "Licensing Music On The Web".
  • "Representing The New Media Industry" - "Music On The Internet: Special Problems And Emerging Solutions".
  • "Copyright And Clearance Issues On Internet Licensing".
  • "Music On The Internet: Digital Performance Rights In Sound Recordings Act And Digital Millennium Copyright Act".
  • "Copyright, Clearance, And Related Issues Concerning Digitally Distributed Contents".
  • "Ownership And Copyright Registration In Songs".
  • "Sources Of Music Publishing Income".