The Musician's Law and Business Guide
Given the fairly wild gyrations of the music industry, composers and performers have a challenge in how best to chart the course of their careers. Should I sign with a label? Does it matter if I create my own publishing company? And everyone wants to know what rights to sign away in exchange for that modest advance.
These challenges are not new. The music industry has changed over time and will continue to change as technology and audience tastes change over time.
Throughout most of history, composers and performers looked to patrons to sponsor their art. In the late nineteenth century, the piano democratized music, propelling live performances into the living rooms of the middle class. By the turn of the last century, the player pianos became the rage, providing a perfect duplication of a pianist's original performance. Early phonographs added to the interest in pre-recorded music and an industry was born.
(source: gcglaw.com - jon garon)
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