When following a career in live music, it is vital to be able to book the best artists for the shows that you promote. To artists around the world don’t work all by themselves to promote their work. They work with booking agents who handle their promotions and get them […]
Making money by conducting a concert cannot be possible without the right promotion. It is almost impossible to expect a crowd to turn up at a gig without giving it maximum exposure. Whether you work for a church, venue, speaker, band, an event organiser or a Performer, there are a […]
With the birth of the 20th century, Information Technology slowly and steadily took over the world and brought nations closer. Over time, the scaling nature of IT has helped with several other industries in managing handling information that is stored across devices. In the financial industry, security of people’s information […]
In part two of Understanding the music industry, we looked at the role of the artist manager, the types of manager there is and the difference between an artist’s manager and a business manager. In this blog we focus on what an agent does for an artist and why he […]
Our second part of the blog is here to guide artists through the minefield of the music industry, its players and their roles, and this time we focus on a music manager. The Artist’s Manager The manager of an artist is usually the first component to the team that will […]
If you are a budding artist and setting out into the music industry, you are probably doing so because you are highly talented at creating music, but the business is entirely different matter. Understanding the business side of things can be absolutely daunting, phrases such as business managers, agents, personal […]
Since the ongoing development of technology, it’s no secret that how music is consumed has changed. Times are forever changing. Thanks to technology, the days of consumers buying complete, physical albums just to listen to one or two songs are long gone. Nowadays, music lovers would much rather stream their […]
Our final and concluding part of what is copyright protection pertaining to music looks at artists representation and everything that this includes. There are actually four different kinds of representation an artist may choose to employ. Which are, Personal Managers, Agents, Business Managers and Lawyers. Personal Managers A personal manager […]
In the last edition of what is copyright protection in the music industry, we saw how revenue streams could be gained from owning copyright, and how sampling was considered under copyright law. In this blog we start looking at some of the penalties that can be levied if you infringe […]
In part one of this blog about copyright and how it protects original works we saw the definitions of what copyright was and what exactly it protects. In this blog we understand the significance of owning a copyright and how you may financially gain from it. The Financial Benefits of […]
