In today’s world of technology there are many different devices that bands are using to make music videos and virals. Hell, a few people have been making entire films from their Iphones. However, if you are not shooting a large budget project with a major label, you may not have lawyers, managers, or agents running around making sure that you have all the proper clearances.
Muammar Reed
In 2010 the video game industry had sales between $15.4 billion to $15.6 billion.[i] This includes the likes of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Madden, NBA2k, and more.
All these games have one thing in common; they all include licensed music. Video games would be boring if they were just motion graphics without sound. Even video games developers that created games as old as Tetris had the foresight to know that sound enhances the video game experience. Some video games literally revolve around music (i.e., Guitar Hero & Rock Band), others have scores, and some license whole tracks from artists.
DefendSound.com is hosting Music Appreciation Week starting January 10th, to raise music education awareness. Participate in our campaign and paste the following to your Facebook status this week to help raise awareness:
“This week is Music Appreciation Week, change your profile picture to a picture of your favorite artist/band until Jan. 16th to raise music education awareness. Visit defendsound.com to donate and learn more about your local music charities. Please repost.”
5 Music Charities:
Congress:
The year 2011 will be a world where it’s not unusual to see a 10-year old clutching a Blackberry or an IPod. Yet, ask the average 10-year old, teen or college student to give you an in-depth analysis of Copyright Law, and you will receive a series of blank stares.
Similarly, if you ask the average parent of a 10-year old, teen or college student to give you an in-depth analysis of how to operate an X-Box 360, you will receive the same series of blank stares with a bit of head scratching.
Defend Sound Editor: Muammar Reed, Esq.
There are generally two types of publishing deals:
(1) Co-publishing Deal (See Publishing 101)
(2) Publishing Administration Deal
There are 5 basic things that distinguish an administration deal from a standard co-publishing deal:
Music Supervisors at the 2010 Billboard Film and TV Music Conference
In today’s digital music game where labels are signing less artists and where artists are signed “after” they’ve already developed a following, artists are becoming more self-dependent. Most will need to create some type of publishing structure before signing with a major label or publisher in order to collect royalties from songs that are independently produced and sold or for their compositions that are placed in television/films.
“Da Physics” of the Ghetto Perform at the Roxy Theater 11-21-10 (Tickets Available)
There are two types of artists that irk me:
1. Artists that are too afraid of being themselves because they are afraid of what everyone thinks; and
2. Artists that are too engulfed into what everyone else is doing that they can never create anything authentic.
Just Blaze on Competition with Kanye
For all artists that fall into either category, realize that “There is no Competition.” You are only competing with yourself, your bad habits, your work ethic, and your fear of embarrassment and being inadequate. Continue reading…
Do you know what people in the industry call music artists that refuse to do television, film, commercials, interviews and/or product endorsements???
BROKE!!!
Ghetto Physics: Will The Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up (Official Trailer)
We now live in a world where Ray-J can remake his image as a music artist because everyone watched the two seasons of For The Love of Ray-J (“Tie Me Down”, and “143″). We live in a day where acting in a hit teen television show/film can catapult you into a major selling artist (Miley Cyrus “Hannah Montana”/Drake, “Degrassi”). Continue reading…
A production music library, also referred to as a catalog company, collects music and the rights to music from different sources to license to various tv shows, films, commercials, artists, etc.
For struggling yet talented artists unsigned to a major, or those who are uninterested in being signed by a major label, production music libraries can be a great way to gain notoriety amongst potential fans and production studios. They can also help struggling artists make a consistent living doing what they love. “The music you put in a music library may outlive you,” said Jonathan Firstenberg, Senior VP of Musicbox, LLC. and a speaker on the Production Music Libraries: A One-Stop Shop for Placement Across All Media panel. Continue reading…
“Creative minds are stubborn!” This is true for about 99% of musicians (bless their creative souls). Creative souls are notoriously difficult and complicated; most express their emotions either through their art or by throwing and breaking things.
What do you call 4 or more of these complicated souls stuffed in a single garage or a bassment???
A Band!!!
