Archive for the ‘Music Business’ Category
A Guide to Creative Commons: Giving it Away
March 5, 2008 LicensingThis post focuses on Creative Commons, a collection of licenses designed help give creators of intellectual property the ability to reduce the strength of their copyright. Creative Commons was created in 2002 and has since shown a substantial amount of support from the community. Essentially, when a person creates something they receive a copyright for [...]
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Picking a Place to Live (and Record)
February 21, 2008 Live-WorkThis post focuses on things to look for when you want to live and record in the same space. Not too many of us producer types actually have the benefit of a dedicated studio space, working in rented rooms, in rehearsal spaces, or *gasp* where we live. But what are some of the things that [...]
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Insurance Got Your Back? Gear & Liability
February 15, 2008 InsuranceThis post focuses on ways to insure your equipment and protect yourself from liability. I know insurance is probably the last thing on most people’s minds when they get into music production. Let’s face it, though… we have a lot of expensive stuff lying around and we, as businesses, open ourselves up to liability. The [...]
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Sampling: Legally Ambiguous Like Whoa
February 14, 2008 Licensing, Music Business, SamplingThis post focuses on the practice of sampling and its legal ramifications. Sampling has, for years, been a routine practice in the music industry. Sampling is taking a part of an already recorded musical composition and repurposing it in a new composition. It used to be that people would simply sample freely, release the material, [...]
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