Artist Management- The task of developing an artist's career. The artist manager typically advises the artist on all business decisions and attempts to promote the artist through all available means, including demos, media coverage, and person-to-person networking.
Engineer- Individual who operates studio equipment during the recording of a song.
Label- A record company.
Music Contracts- There are almost countless forms of contracts that are used in the music business, but most commonly are recording contracts, artist management contracts, finders fee contracts, and general release contracts.
Performing Rights Organization- Society whose purpose is to collect monies earned from public performances of songs by users of music and to distribute these to the writers and publishers of these songs in a proportion that reflects as accurately as possible the amount of performances of each particular song.
Performance Royalties- Monies earned from use of one's song on radio, television and other users of music.
Phonorecord- Any device which transmits sound other than that which accompanies a motion picture or other audio-visual work.
Publisher- A person or company who, on behalf of an artist, seeks out people to use the artist's music, issues licenses, collects all licensing fees and royalties, pays the artist, and splits the proceeds. The publishing contract assigns the administration rights to the publisher as well as all the rights of the copyright owner.
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