As a music lawyer and entertainment attorney, I refer to the aforementioned "written agreement between band members" as both "inter-band contract" and "in-band contract". Between the grammarist, the band, the group, the record label, or other music lawyers and entertainment attorneys, "intra" is technically probably close to the mark, but we start discussing which term is right Instead of documenting "agreement among band members". Egypt, "AABM" for short. (As for the grammar who wants to discuss the use of "medium" and "medium", well ... you can discuss this about yourself!)
Well, I'm interested in those interested in musicians, groups, bands that might be reading this article, and those interested in music lawyers and entertainment attorneys in New York.
"If you are a musician playing in a multi-member band or group, is AABM necessary?"
Ask a music lawyer: "Absolutely, yes."
"Should bands and groups consider closing the AABM before the record label of A & R (Artist and Repertory) officers and band demo CD recordings?"
Again quote an entertainment attorney: "Absolutely yes."
On the one hand, there are some similarities between the agreement between bands or group members or agreement on pre-engagement between future spouses. A music attorney, a lawyer in Dom Rel (domestic relations), was taught to call them in New York, so it may have a common ground rather than actually thinking. But I find a case that actually AABM for band members and group members is more attractive than arguments for having a plenap. Marriage must be a function of love. Meanwhile, from the perspective of music attorneys and entertainment attorneys, the formation of bands and groups for recording demo recording labels A & R executives, and recording and distribution are often commercial exercises. I love the themes playing in the background. Bundle Demo CD to record label A & R Executive CD shopping is a commercial exercise and business suggestion. Initiatives in the group projects shall not be lacking in clear written informed prior agreement between the parties.
Commercial efforts by cooperation of two or more people, including views on music lawyers' bands and groups, demo / shopping from entertainment lawyers & # 39, and inquiries on A & R's records and labels, include other artistic collaborative projects , Or a perspective from the perspective of a lawyer. Whether skipping plenap or not must be decided in one discretion. After all, spouse candidates may be insulted if you originally thought that other spouses were just for love. However, from the point of view of music lawyers and entertainment lawyers, band members do not have to skip AABM if group members take seriously the bands, groups, careers, or seriously record the A & R demo shopping campaign. Also, from the perspective of music lawyers and entertainment lawyers, with respect to records and labels of A & R's demo shopping campaign, neither band nor group members should ask for leap to blind trust, Signature, others.
If formation of a band or group is not regarded as a commercial act, band members think that they can gig for free at the subway after simply agreeing to handshake. For the bands and groups, theoretically, you can also shake handshake on who will pay for the demo shopping of A & R records. However, as an entertainment lawyer practicing in New York, the majority of the bands and groups I'm listening to are concerned about financial, artistic and futuristic things. A handshake agreement between band members and group members on performance and A & R record label demo shopping may controversy themselves about leaving business lawyers of music lawyers and entertainment attorneys in business and going south .
Many bands and group musicians are trying to find a way to be economically self-sustaining only by music through submission of A & R demo shopping such as record labels while preparing to quit "day labor". This result is not easy. And this result is even more difficult to achieve without the creation of prior careful plans and drafts of bands and groups as commercial ventures through the use of music lawyers and entertainment lawyers. AABM is one of the essential music lawyer's planning tools for the band, and it is virtually worth the case even if he quits "at a later date." Rather than dealing with Sony, Warner and Music Lawyers, group and bands are too busy and may distract you, rather than dealing with the demo shopping A & R record label's response as expected unknown. Also, as in the case of plenap, if the road does not go well later, the band or group members will not usually sign after the new marriage after the relationship has become rough. Most music lawyers' entertainment lawyers have seen a number of bands and groups collapsed. The time of AABM is not late now.
After a band or group has already succeeded, or after a band or group has already submitted a recording contract as a result of the demo, he hoped that a music attorney, entertainment lawyer, or anyone else would be required to negotiate and close AABM Not. Shopping and other A & R and recording / label projects placement initiatives. The best time to close the AABM is to have a relevant music lawyer or entertainment attorney attorney at the same time as the group or band is being formed, or while still struggling, and before the record label A & R's job and demonstration shopping It is to do between. period.
If a business partner or shareholder in connection with a business formation agrees on its own, it will do it in one or more signed forms. Music lawyers and entertainment lawyers must also be with bands and group members. A good AABM should be robust enough to recite the contents of the contract between the band members and group members at this time, but to consider future changes such as personnel changes and artistic direction It must be flexible enough. A good AABM should provide guidance on the operation of the A & R record label label demo shopping initiative itself. Once using signatures and counter signatures, music attorneys and entertainment lawyers can revise AABM and reveal changes in the development of bands and groups, including editing for record labels. A & R Demo Shopping event.
If all marriages are true 50/50 propositions, you can say that promises before marriage are not necessary. Likewise, if all business partnerships were strictly 50/50, written partnership agreements could be considered waste of time. But the fact of this fact is that the proportion of investment and return is not exactly the same among all co-participants. Music lawyers and entertainment lawyers say the same applies to bands and groups. For example, it is rare for each band and group members to bear the same burden on the arrangement of A & R projects on labels and the work of demonstration shopping. For example, do each of the four band members and group members actually write 25% of each song specifically? Even so, how do you measure and prove it? Word count? Note - Count? Beat count?
In an average of 4 bands or groups, each member can play a different instrument. Some may have been in groups or bands longer than other groups. Some people who are experienced taking years as a music work. Some people are rich in A & R executive, demo shopping, record label handling experience. Some may think that they may have "connections" with clubs and record labels that do not have members of other groups or bands. Among the members of the group and the band, you can spend more free time on the management of the band business such as A & R and record demo shopping, but other members may be working for two days not. Some group members or band members can afford to pay demo CDs provided to A & R staff and record labels. Depending on the group and band members who may not be others, others may want to talk to record labels, music lawyers, entertainment lawyers. Other people may not be like that
Finally, despite the most important things, some band members are intended to be heard by record, to the words and music writings of the group's original songs appearing on the demo CDs Other band members Please label A & R executives more than. This potential disparity is the best reason to create a band or group AABM before demo shopping record label A & R campaign, as soon as possible, as a music attorney or entertainment lawyer tells you.
An excellent AABM created by music and entertainment attorneys takes into account all these types of factors. Conversely, if you do not have any of these band-related questions while assembling AABM with music-related attorneys or entertainer lawyers, the resulting document will be of little value for today's purposes Harmonize the group and keep it together. AABM is a forward-looking document that the draft staff of a music attorney continuously asks "What if ...?" On multiple predictable band and group scenarios based on past entertainment law experience, including the potential impact of A & R record label demonstration · shopping · submission campaign.
Music lawyers and entertainment attorneys like me also tell you that the real value of the contract, including AABM, is a conflict resolution and conflict avoidance tool. In other words, members of a band or group deal with potential possibly long-range events that may appear in the band's lifetime, deal with it now, solve the result and demonstrate the results of the A & R record label demo · Shopping, submission, campaign related papers, etc. Rather than paying for thousands of dollars to a lawyer's entertainment attorney at a court or arbitration room, a lawyer's entertainment lawyer is more than paying for dramatic expenditures on bands or groups, or their individual members Good.
In many cases, music lawyers and entertainment lawyers want to send demos to record executives of A & R labels, but for example, the band's base player is trying to raise children on Maui, group singers I forget that the songwriter got up from the front and joined the Air Force. But if other bands and groups members value the band's time, sweat, energy, money investment, including the demo shopping recording label A & R exercise, they should think thoroughly in advance - these types Answer to the question of.
Music lawyers or entertainment attorneys should have conveyed these responses for the purpose of drafting AABM. Who in the band or group owns and manages the copyright of the song? Who in the band or group keeps the master? When will the band or group decide whether to contact during the demonstration · shopping · exercise with the A & R executive and the recording label? Who in the band and group will decide what record label A & R personnel should sound like a demonstration? It seems? Which band member or band member eventually said to manager hiring and dismissal? If the group disbanded, inquiries on the A & R record label broke if members continue to use the name of the band or if there are merits of past demonstration shopping? And these are some of the questions that should come up. There are many more things, some of the work and functions of music lawyers and entertainment attorneys is to first come up with them for prediction.
The situation of each band is different, the groups are all different, record label A & R demo Shopping campaign is all different. The list of questions to contemplate and discuss with music attorneys and entertainer lawyers are as different as those of different band members, members of different groups, and different demonstrations. If music lawyers and entertainment lawyers prepare AABM and are doing A & R record label demonstration shopping work, the band should be better. In the perfect world, the members of all bands or groups are represented separately by different music attorneys or entertainment lawyers, so that the AABM documents, as before, one of the members of the band or group served as counsel Rather than theoretically, everyone is trying to submit a reel of a demo or soundtrack to a record label etc, but a non-attorney person can not practice music law, entertainment law, other laws and laws There is no license in the US.
But should all these considerations prevent bands and groups from taking the first shot in creating a good AABM? Especially in the first demo of the A & R campaign, it is absolutely different. The band should at least try to solve the answer to all questions of "if" that may appear in the band's lifecycle among their members. A band or group may try to solve these questions in the paper. Later, at an affordable price, one of the members of the band or group consults with a music attorney or entertainment lawyer to review and revise the document at the start of the band and enumerate the same music attorney for the demonstration shopping record Sometimes labels A & R are similar. Typically, this question group member is actually found to be the band member that is most relevant to the output.
Conversely, band members need to know that even in the work of the demo shopping record label A & R, one entertainment attorney can not represent all group members simultaneously, or it may not be permitted. - Especially when different band members possess different investment ratios in the band's commercial efforts, even so in other cases. A music lawyer 's entertainment lawyer should tell it when the problem occurs.
Lawyers - There is plenty of time for bands and groups to consider in the future on matters concerning laws on defense of clients' lawyers and "Who will represent who?" It is prudent to tackle these analyzes prior to these analyzes It is a record label where demonstration · shopping and A & R work are being done. And, when the expression of the entertainment attorney is correct, it is a serious threshold problem that we must take seriously. In addition, music attorneys, entertainment lawyers, and other lawyers could not attract the customers of the A & R demo shopping work and other work record labels without first evaluating these kinds of problems carefully. I put the interaction between the band and the group on myself.
Meanwhile, regardless of whether the band or group is the first demonstration / shopping or the end of the record label A & R campaign, carefully consider whether it is necessary to prepare and negotiate written agreements between bands or groups You need to show how the members, as well as music lawyers or recreational attorneys, can sign and sign documents signed in place. At the moment, at this time, you can save a lot of worries and expenses on the future road, strengthen the A & R campaign for demo shopping, record labels, keep bands and groups together.
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