Music Business Contracts

A Note on Free Contracts...

One thing I've learned through my years in the biz: There are are good contracts and bad contracts, useless ones and dangerous ones - do you know the difference??? Non-Personalized Contracts cost way too much in how they've hurt people's careers. Way too many people on both the Creative and the Business sides of the fence have come to me lately to get them out of either poorly written as well as often Just Plain Dangerous-to-Their-Careers Contracts.

They've paid for it dearly in wasted money they didn't make - or paid me to help them "Get me out of this!" - as well as valuable career time. Simply put: Contracts Must fit the Exact Person & Exact Situation! You will see that, it's not always just what's IN a Contract that can hurt you, but just as often, what's been Left Out of the Contract!Free Advice: Pay a little money now [to save a lot, later] to get a correctly written Personalized Contract from a Music Business Contract Specialist or reputable Entertainment Attorney - and save yourself a lot of money, grief and valuable career time...

We offer you an inexpensive but completely professional alternative...

Personalized Music Business
Contractual Services

We help...

Creative people, including, but not limited to Singers, Songwriters, Musicians, Producers, etc. And…

We also help...

Businesses, Companies and Corporations, including those who are, or wish to become Music Publishers, Managers, Production Companies, Record Companies, Music Business Attorneys, etc.

See me, when...

You've been offered any type of Music related Entertainment Business Contract.
You want particular thing[s] put in or taken out of a Contract.
You don't know what you need to put in or take out.
You need someone to negotiate for you.
You want to become a Manager, Publisher, Production or Record Company.
You need specific Contracts written for your own Music Business purposes.
You need to know what Contracts you need.

You wish to just learn all you can about any particular Music Business Contract[s]

Very Important Note: Please, Please, Please come to me, or see an experienced entertainment attorney BEFORE you sign a contract, or, if you are in the business side, BEFORE you give out one to a potential artist, writer, partner, whatever. It's much easier and cheaper to prevent a tragedy from happening than to come to me after some damage has been done. It seems I spend half my contract work hours, trying to get people OUT of contracts they never should have signed! Meanwhile a lot of career time and money has been wasted needlessly.

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Fees:

$65 per hour [until your career advances with my help]

$95 per hour after that...

[Less than half what most reputable Entertainment Attorneys charge!]

David's home office is in the Philadelphia/
Delaware Valley area

E-mail Professor Pooch at:
Pooch@professorpooch.com

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Click here if you wish to see a list of the most often used Music
Business Contracts with easy-to-understand descriptions

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Important Note: For those that feel that they need to get a much better overall picture regarding music business contracts, [Translation - You're afraid of getting ripped off!] I offer you this straight to the point, informative Mini-Course, entitled: "Music Business Law: Contract Basics". It was an important part of the "Entertainment Law" class that I designed and taught in the Music Business Division at the Art Institute of Philadelphia from 1991-1998.

Included in this "Better-Safe-Than-Sorry" course are the important words, terms, phrases and "clauses" to look out for in a contract that can hurt you - as well as what's been left out of a contract that can help you! [If written and inserted correctly!] Presented in Outline Form, it also includes important Contract Points and Negotiating Tactics that will help you throughout your career in regards to understanding most Music Business as well as other types of Entertainment-related contracts. This inexpensive, one-shot course is presented in simple, down-to-earth "people-talk".

One thing I can promise you: The contents of this course will save you a fortune throughout your music business career. And just as importantly, it will also save you quite a lot of wasted time, energy and aggravation.

For this course, go to:

Music Business Law: Contract Basics

"Our aim is to help guide you, protect you,
and to answer any and all of your questions regarding
the Creative, Business and Legal sides of the Music Business,
in plain, easy-to-understand "People-Talk".
No matter what style of Music, no matter what you do,
no matter what stage of your career - we're here for you!
Let us help you save wasted time and money.."

David J. Spangenberg
["Professor Pooch"]

Music Business Consultant,
Educator & Advisor
Contract Specialist

E-mail David at: Pooch@professorpooch.com