While doing my research for the letters of permission
project, I found an extremely helpful site that I pulled all my forms from. The
website is hiphopproduction.com and it features a list of free music contracts
for artists, musicians, engineers, and more. The forms I chose were the
exclusive agent form, studio charge time contract, talent release contract, and
the copyright assignment form. All these documents are things I will potentially
use as I advance in my career as an audio professional. An exclusive agent form is a document where
an artist signs and agrees to hire an agent. The agent lists his/her terms on
the document and handles the artists’ booking, traveling, and any other part of
the artists’ professional career. A studio charge time contract lays out the
hourly pay that a studio receives within the time frame (ex: 2 years) specified
on the contract. A talent release contract states the guidelines and limits
when talent is released to do work for other business. Also, the talent
releases rights to any money made to the master owner. Last, but not least, is
the copyright assignment form. This document entails who owns the rights of
songs produced or any composition made. All of these documents are signed by
their respective parties to protect from people who want to get over on them. I
picked these four documents because of where I want to go in my career. I want
to own a record label eventually, and to do so successfully I will have to be
able to read and make all agreements known through contract or release form. As
previously stated, the website I used was of much use. There were hundreds of
contracts specifically tailored to the music business. I will use this website
as a resource in the future.
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