Entertainment Law Research Guide

This book, dubbed by many in the music business as the industry bible, it acts as a guide aiding in navigating the ins and outs of record deals, songwriting, publishing, and copyrights; concert, touring, and merchandising deals also providing an insightful look into the new arena of streaming.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms.

This book addresses a general, non-attorney readership. Dealmaking is a highly accessible guide to entertainment law's peculiarities and practical applications for everyone working in film and television; producer, writer, director or actor.

A comprehensive guide to the process of making deals in the entertainment industry, this book also provides a deeper look into the guilds in Hollywood.

Written for non-lawyers, it covers the entire field of Copyright law, including topics such as open access, the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), file sharing, e-reserves, the status of "orphan works," and the latest developments under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Music is a business of money, contracts, decisions and making the most of every opportunity. To succeed—to make money—to have a career—you have to know what you are doing in both music and business. This invaluable book tells you how the business works, what you must know to succeed, and how much money you can make in films, television, video games, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, record sales, downloads and streams, advertising, ringtones and ringbacks, interactive toys and dolls, Broadway, new media, scoring contracts and synch licenses, music publishing, foreign countries, and much more. This indispensable reference is written by industry insiders Todd Brabec, Educator, Entertainment Law Attorney and former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership, and Jeff Brabec, Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, BMG.

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