Our Music Business 101 series covers the entirety of today's dynamic music industry. In depth, accurate, up-to-date courses designed to transform your understanding of the business.
Understanding how agreements are structured and will work for (or against) you is crucial knowledge you’ll employ throughout your career.
Get up to speed with a general overview of how the modern music business operates, and where revenue is generated in the industry.
Do you know the difference between a copyright, a trademark, and a patent? Understanding the basic forms of IP is key to protecting your creations and maximizing your income potential.
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Music Publishing 101 is a simple guide to the complex world of music publishing – a primer to better develop your understanding of this highly lucrative area of the music industry.
Confused about music contracts? Creative Intell gives you the contracts you need and guides you through getting the most out of them.
Our Industry Agreement courses decode music business contracts in language everyone understands. You'll learn how to negotiate fair deals, avoid pitfalls, maximize your revenue, and understand what you are singing.
Are you a music producer or an artist looking to hire one? Whether you're just starting out or have been in the game for a while, it's crucial to understand producer agreements.
Have you just composed a great song with a friend or songwriting partner? If so, you’ll want to enter into a song split agreement with your co-writers.
The work-for-hire agreement is the all-important contract you need to have in place to protect your rights and copyrights when working with creative collaborators.
This course covers every angle of beat licensing. From how beats are created, marketed, and sold, to a detailed look into current online beat license agreements and what you need to watch out for with these contracts.
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Do you have a guest artist featured on your recordings? If so, you’ll need a featured artist agreement to work out the details of their royalties, credits, ownership, and a whole lot more.
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Protect your work and maximize your revenue with advanced training tools providing strategy, negotiation tactics, and industry averages for your deals. Checklists, playbooks, legal document template library, videos, and much more.
Beat trolling is increasingly common - and a real threat to both artists and producers. This playbook explains how beat trolls operate and what you need to do to protect yourself from these scammers.
Buried in the fine print of beat marketplace agreements are important limitations on how many streams you can accumulate with a licensed beat. This playbook explains why this system works against you, and how to safeguard your music from unreasonable restrictions.
Beat marketplace agreements place severe restrictions on how much airplay a beat-derived track can garner. This playbook explains how this works against both artists and producers, and how to avoid these unreasonable limitations.
Beat marketplace agreements provide that beat licenses can be terminated any time the producer deems it to be in their interest. This playbook examines the terms that allow this to happen and why to strike them from your agreements.
Understanding how your royalties are calculated is critical info! This colorful playbook explains exactly how major record labels compensate producers on a percentage of PPD basis.
If you’re producing indie label artists, you’re probably being compensated on a net earnings basis. This playbook explains exactly how net earnings royalties are calculated, so you’ll know if you’re being paid everything you’re owed.
This playbook explains the procedures to follow when releasing an original song so you can be sure the money it generates always flows to the right place: you.
Anytime you release a cover song, there are procedures to follow that ensure your work is protected and the revenue generated from it flows to you. This playbook guides you through the process, step by step, so you can always be confident your release is legally sound.
Creative Intell's webinar, Releasing an Original Song, covers takedown notices, licensing samples, song split agreements, and more!
Equip yourself with reliable contracts and the knowledge to understand them and succeed in negotiations. No more downloading obscure contracts or borrowing random forms; You can trust our expertly-drafted, user-friendly, fully editable contracts, including:
and more!
