Music Law

Whether you’re recording an album, budgeting a tour, or insuring your vintage guitar, you need solid information to make the right legal and business choices.

Music Law is the all-in-one guide you need. Written by musician and lawyer Rich Stim, it explains everything you need to:

• write a partnership agreement
• buy, insure, and maintain equipment
• use samples and do covers
• register your band’s name
• sell and license your music
• get royalties for streaming and downloads
• deal with taxes and deductions
• find the right manager and write a fair contract
• get gigs and get paid
• protect your copyright legally
• deal with legal issues in the recording studio, and
• understand record contracts.

This is quite simply the best business and legal guide for bands ever written. Completely updated to provide the latest in the law and current business practices, it covers music licensing and trends affecting the digital-music scene.

“If you’re serious about a career as a performing musician, you’d have to be a damn fool not to rush out and buy a copy of this book.”
-Jim Aiken, Keyboard

“It’s the scuba gear every musician needs to swim with the sharks.”
-Vibe

“I usually hate books written by attorneys. This one is an exception.”
-Moses Avalon, Author of the Confessions of a Record Producer