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Thursday, 04 October 2012 11:00

Overview of Music Publishing

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Copyright

Often the process of registering a copyright is what comes to mind when people hear the term copyright.  However, songs are automatically copyrighted as soon as they are in tangible form, even recorded at home or simply written down. Copyrighted songs have to be original (not copies of another piece) and significant enough to constitute a work. Copyrighting your work (getting it out of your head and in tangible form) not only protects it from being copied or used by unauthorized parties but also is the first step to publishing your material and ultimately being paid for it.

Once your work is copyrighted you have the exclusive rights to:1. Reproduce the work, 2. Distribute copies of the work, 3. Perform the work publicly, 4. Make a derivative work. It also means no one else can do these things without your express consent.

There are two general rights covered in a music copyright : the authorship of a song and the ownership of a song. According to Copright Law, you are the natural owner of every song you write until you assign the ownership  to someone else.

Every song is made up of two equal parts; not the lyrics and the melody but the writer share and the the publisher share.

The writer share represents the authorship of the song. While a copyright can change hands many times; the writer share remains the property of the author.

The other fifty percent, the publisher share, is the equitable share. It is what you can sell or buy. In this context it is known as the “copyright”. When a publisher acquires a copyright, it is acquiring the publisher share.

Control
The Publisher controls the writers share. The publisher licenses mechanical , print and synch rights on behalf of itself and the writer. These royalties and fees are collected by the publisher (the owner of the copyright) for both the publisher share and the writer share. It is the publisher’s responsibility to pay the writer. Performance royalties are the only royalty type where the writer can collect his writer royalties directly from the performing rights organization. Control means the publisher has the right to negotiate and execute all licenses.

Royalties
Ongoing earnings of licensed songs from each sale or  broadcast.

Exploitation
In music publishing, exploitation is a good term. You want your songs to be exploited. Landing a song in a film or television show is an exploitation; somebody recording your song is an exploitation; releasing a record is an exploitation. When one of those songs from your record becomes part of a greatest hits package down the line – that’s an exploitation. An exploited song that is licensed and registered opens revenue streams.

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Source: KnowTheMusicBiz
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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 11:00

The-Dream Is Very Much Real At Def Jam

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A congrats is in order for writer and producer The-Dream(Terius Nash), who has worked with everyone from Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige and Justin Bieber, on his new position with Def Jam. He has been appointed Executive Vice President of A&R by Republic/IDJ Motown Chairmain/CEO Barry Weiss and IDJMG EVP/Head of A&R Karen Kwak.

His duties will include overseeing current and new artist projects, while working as a producer for artist on the Def Jam roster and its affiliated labels.

In additon to Weiss and Kwak, The-Dream will work closely with Def Jam President Joie Manda and IDJMG President/COO Steve Bartels.

Since the release of his gold Love Hate debut album on Radio Killa/Def Jam in 2007, The-Dream (Terius Nash) has experienced tremendous success as a songwriter and producer for superstars across the pop and R&B/hip-hop spectrum. He made headlines with early hits for Rihanna (“Umbrella”), Mariah Carey (“Touch My Body”) and J. Holiday (“The Bed,” “Suffocate”). He also wrote several songs on Mary J. Blige’s Growing Pains, which won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album. The-Dream won Best New Artist honors at the 2008 BET Awards in addition to his Grammy nomination for Song of the Year for “Umbrella” (as songwriter), and American Music Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year. The-Dream went on to help craft Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake,” Justin Bieber’s triple-platinum worldwide smash, “Baby,” “No Church in the Wild” from Kanye West and Jay-Z’s opus Watch the Throne, and many more.

The-Dream was a writer on “All of the Lights” from Def Jam labelmate Kanye West’s lauded 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The song won Grammys for “Best Rap Song” and “Best Rap Sung Collaboration.” In 2010, he shared in two Grammys as a songwriter on Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” which won for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song.

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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:30

A3C Festival 2012 Powered By Spreaker.com

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Looking at my watch it is about that time of year again. When all walks of life come together to celebrate hip hop music in the heart of the south known as ATL. For the 8th annual A3C Hip Hop Festival  being held at the Masquerade on October 11-13, 2012 they are adding a new element to the fold.

Jumping on the technology transit the A3C will be teaming up with Spreaker online radio to produce a live stream featuring artist interviews and music exclusively at the 2012 A3C Hip Hop Festival.

In an effort to reach to new fans and attendees of the festival, the purpose of the audio stream is to showcase all the great events that the A3C Hip Hop Festival has to offer. The production of the stream will be presented as a live radio format with 5 hours of programming for both Friday, October 12th & Saturday, October 13th. Writers and contributors of the A3C Website will host the Broadcast stream, as well as the A3C Blog site giving the listener up to the minute news and music live from the festival.

The idea was pioneered by Lucien Wall aka DJ Lucky Luciano, one of the contributing writers of the A3C Blog as well as one of the Executive Producers of the live stream for the festival through his company, Tekmatrix Sounds, LLC.

Scheduled air times of the official live stream will be announced on the A3C website prior to the start of the festival. Listeners of the stream will be able to tune in and listen through various outlets including their Smartphone using the Spreaker app available for iPhone, iPad, Ipod Touch as well as Android Devices in addition to the A3C website via a stream player on the A3C website provided by the Spreaker Network.

For more information on Spreaker visit the website.

Source: A3CFestival
 

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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:35

Who's Werking: Gucci Mane On Power 105's Breakfast Club

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When it comes to "werk" one individual who personifies handling the business is Gucci Mane. We don't look at him as a client but rather family. If you see him at THE PATCH guarantee he is putting in time with our engineer Kori Anders. He recently sat down with Power 105's The Breakfast Club for an interview. Gucci has a new project coming out next week October 17th titled 'Trap God'.


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Monday, 15 October 2012 20:33

Straight Talk No Chaser

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There's absolutely nothing better in this business than getting straight talk from someone who has worked and been successful in the music industry.  Meet Steve Rennie, manager for rock band Incubus and former record executive.  He has created a YouTube channel loaded with sound advice from his years of experience and some interviews from other veterans in the industry.  What I love most about his channel is that he interviews people you will not recognize from BET, MTV, or VH1.  Rennie speaks to the real movers and shakers behind the industry, those who make major decisions every day but who are not household names.  These are the faces you should recognize.  This is the advice you should be seeking.

Posted is one of my favorite videos from Steve Rennie's channel, "Fuck The Gatekeepers".  The title alone lets you know exactly what you can expect from this guy - straight talk, no chaser.

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Thursday, 18 October 2012 09:00

Fund Professional Music Projects With 5TEN15TWENTY

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What is stopping artist today from releasing a professionally recorded, mixed, mastered and manufactured project? Nine out of ten times the situation is funding. The COO of Patchwerk Recording Studios, Curtis Daniel III, has started a new program to rectify this situation called 5TEN15TWENTY.
  
 5TEN15TWENTY is a funding and recording development tool that allows artist and fans to connect and fund professional music projects.


5TEN15TWENTY enables artists to raise funding and support from their backers who wish to hear them create professionally recorded, mixed, mastered and manufactured projects.

Artists win by having one of their biggest obstacles (recording studio fees) taken care of while their project remains independent. Once all of the recording obligations are met, they are free to do as they please with their completed project.

Fans win by receiving unique rewards associated with each project and more importantly--new quality material from their favorite artists.


How 5Ten15Twenty Works

  • The artist creates a music project that they want fans to support. The project can be a single, an EP, demo, or a full-length album.
  • A fan comes to the site to view the types of projects they can support in amounts of 5, 10, 15 or 20 dollars
  • Each price point has a unique reward associated with it. 
  • Once the project is funded in it’s entirety, backers will be charged. The artist will begin working on the recording project and you’ll get your reward.
Every Artist sets their project's funding goal and deadline. If people like the project, they can pledge money to make it happen. If the project succeeds in reaching its funding goal, all backers' PayPal accounts are charged when time expires.

If the project falls short, no one is charged. 

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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:00

What Justin Bieber & Odd Future Have In Common

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The most interesting anecdote from The New Yorker’s recent profile of Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, came when Braun explained how he had turned “the most Googled person on the planet” into a money-making dynamo, even within an industry that seemed determined to not make any money.

It bears quoting at length:

When Braun met David Geffen, at a party a couple of years ago, he said that Geffen had one bit of advice for him: “Get out of the music business.” So Braun has been converting his twelve-person company, SB Projects, into a many-faceted organization: it now has film and TV arms (Braun recently sold a scripted show, and has reality shows in development), a publishing division, and a technology-investment unit, in addition to a label and a management company.
Bieber’s success, at least from a financial standpoint, has come as much from cross-platform branding as it has from the sale of actual music. Consider the 5 million sales of Das-Bieb’s two albums to date, versus the 50 million sales enjoyed by Adele’s similarly sized catalogue. Bieber, however, is raking in far more dough, thanks to the sale of such items as concert tickets ($83 million), feature films ($98 million) and perfume ($120 million).

As cross-platform branding turns the music industry into what is essentially a series of advertisements for other services, Bieber has found himself with some unlikely company in the business’ forefront: the Odd Future.

Like Bieber (or, to be more accurate, like Braun), the Odd Future has proven tenacious when it comes to leveraging its acclaim into non-musical pursuits. In addition to the small universe of splinter groups that have capitalized on the Odd Future brand (Domo Genesis, Mellowhype, Frank Ocean), the group has placed its name on everything from throw pillows to key chains, not to mention the infamous cat t-shirts that Tyler, the Creator has turned into a closet industry in and of themselves.

Perhaps most significantly, Odd Future has sold its image to Cartoon Network in the form of its Loiter Squad sketch comedy show.

Rappers have long harbored a talent for turning their popularity into monetary reward, but it appears that in the future, the industry as a whole will be forced to adopt a similar logic, following in the wonderfully mismatched footsteps of misters Justin and Tyler.

Source: Recordingconnection.com

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Friday, 09 November 2012 16:51

Collab On Music Without Leaving Home

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Guaranteed to become every music-makers favorite pass time, Google has released a new feature on its Chrome platform called "Jam With Chrome" that allows you to collaborate with musicians wherever they are through your web browser. Just imagine, you could literally host a jam session with a drummer in LA, a guy in France on the keys, you play the base in Atlanta, and your buddy in New York on the electric guitar... on your lunch break. It's like Scramble With Friends, without the 'Scramble' (couldn't resist). Now considering you can't record or save your session it's definitely just another way to pass the time, but it's still kinda dope!

Check out the video below and click the link to read the full article.

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Friday, 16 November 2012 16:19

Sampling Without Stealing (VIDEO)

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For all you producers out there, the question is, “How do you sample 70’s soul records without completely stealing the artist’s recording?” Well, here are a couple of lessons from Kev Brown to help start you off. Kev Brown has produced tracks for Goapele, Raheem DeVaughn, Busta Rhymes, Marley Marl, and Pete Rock, just to name a few. Here are some of what he suggest:

Step 1: Find a DOPE piece of a record (key term is “piece” )

Step 2: Chop the piece into small phrases or samples

Step 3: Time-stretch your sample

Step 4: Arrange a unique loop (this is where you can get really creative)

Step 5: Add drums to give your production a nice swing

(swing = feeling of the track)

Viola! You have now arranged the anatomy of a classic hip-hop soul record! Give yourself some props, not everyone is capable of creating a DOPE joint. Now check out the video below for more Kev Brown.

Post by Joel Grant

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Friday, 16 November 2012 16:32

SHOW: GADIVA @ Eastside Lounge

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Our home girl "GADIVA" is doing her thing on this coming Tuesday, November 20th, at Eastside Lounge. She always puts on a good show. If you ask us, she's definitely one of those artists you just have GOT to know (ya know!?) Click the flyer for details.

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