hello all,

Hello! The waters of Copyright are choppy and dangerous, so I thought I would ask some third parties if I'm doing this right.

Scenario: A Singer/Songwriter has his own Publishing Company. His publishing Company has the exclusive right to grant licenses on all the songs he writes. He wants to perform/record his songs with my Record Company.

I have been playing cover song gigs long enough, and have gotten screwed over enough times by promoters, venues, etc. that I have decided it would be a good decision for me to make a contract for gigs. ESPECIALLY ones that are going to be a steady weekly occurance at a particular place.

So my band has been offered to jump on tour with another band. Our manager isn't very business smart (which doesn't give me a lot of faith in him) and wanted to just jump on the tour and make verble agreements with venues about being paid.

Well that was just silly!

Guys,

Hi.

I am taking on a project which involves doing live sound and simultaneously making a multi-track recording; all on my gear.

I am happy to offer them a copy of the show at the end, but what about retaining rights? I'd like to retain ownership (publishing?) of the recordings themselves.

anyone know of anysites where i can find sample contracts for productions, song wirtting, and artist signin... plz let me know also if you have any samples or layouts you could send that would help as well. thnx

Hey guys, long time browser, seldom poster here. After much delayed construction and a few setbacks, my little studio is finally about to get its first clients. I've been sitting here at work trying to write up a reasonable standard contract to give my clients and I thought I'd ask for some opinions:

Recording/Production Agreement

I have a label putting out a few of my songs and they never asked me to sign anything. I plan on copyrighting them myself. I'm not to worried about getting money from the label if they sell.