Music Money and Success: The Insiders's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business 3rd Edition

Brabec, Jeffrey,Brabec, Jerry,Brabec, Todd

ISBN 10: 0825672821 / ISBN 13: 9780825672828

Published by Schirmer Trade Books, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music Money and Success: The Insiders's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business 3rd Edition
• Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0825672821
• ISBN 13: 9780825672828
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Hit songs, blockbuster movies, platinum records, TV series, commercials, live theatre, foreign countries, performances, streaming and downloads on the Internet, copyright, dealing with managers, lawyers, and agents: Music, Money, and Success shows you how the business works, who makes the decisions, how deals are made and most importantly, how much money you can make from each area of music.

This book will teach you how to negotiate; it explains contracts; it discusses good and bad deals and what to look out for; it uses real conversations and examples and it gives actual dollar figures. It shows you how the superstars make money in the multi-billion dollar world of music . . . and how you can, too.

About the Author

Todd Brabec is Executive Vice President and Director of Membership for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the world’s largest performing rights organization. He is in charge of all of the Society’s membership operations throughout the world including over 100,000 U.S. composers, lyricists and music publishers, hundreds of thousands of affiliated writers and publishers worldwide and oversees offices in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, and Puerto Rico.

Jeff Brabec is Vice President of Business Affairs for the Chrysalis Music Group where he specializes in evaluating, analyzing, and negotiating music publishing acquisitions. He has negotiated over 1,000 movie, television, video, new technology, and advertising commercial agreements and hundreds of publishing agreements for chart writers / recording artists. Brabec is contributing editor to the Entertainment Law & Finance Magazine.

The Brabecs are winners of the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism. They are former recording artists, as well as entertainment lawyers and are graduates of the New York University School of Law. They are adjunct professors at the USC Thornton School of Music/Music Industry Department where they teach the business of publishing, motion pictures, television and recording. They both lecture extensively at universities, conventions, conferences, seminars, law firms, management firms, songwriter associations, business and law schools, and ad agencies on all aspects of the business and money side of music.