Law

In this section we’ll look at contracts:

  • The 3 main types of contract between musicians, managers, record companies and publishers

  • Other common types of contracts

All musicians during the course of their careers with have to enter into music industry contracts at one time or another. Indeed managers, performers, promoters, record companies and publishers also enter into contractual arrangements. The law governing music contracts is the same as the law governing all other contracts.

All that is required from a music industry point of view is an understanding of what is needed in such contracts, how they work and the affect on the contracting parties careers.

There are three main contracts in an artist's career, namely:

  • Management contract

  • Record contract

  • Publishing contract

There are also a number of subsidiary contracts, namely:

  • Merchandising contracts

  • Sponsorship agreements

  • Agency agreements

  • Band agreements
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