AMP Seminar: Building a Successful Music Publishing Business

• Do you understand the differences between a Work for Hire agreement and Synchronization and Mechanical Licenses?
  
• Do you know what is required to copyright an arrangement?
  
• Do you know how to manage the copyrights in your musical compositions and your master recordings?
  
• Do you understand what is required to collect the performance royalties to which you are entitled?

• Cases in which Work for Hire agreements are most appropriate.
  
• Precautionary steps that protect publishers from copyright infringement claims.
  
• Best practices, and common pitfalls, in licensing musical compositions and master recordings to ad agencies and program producers.
  
• Services that a composer can reasonably expect from a publisher.
• Steps that every publisher can take to maximize performance royalties.
  
• Secrets to managing multiple publishing companies, and relationships with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.

The panel will feature experts on the business of music publishing:

We hope you join us for an evening of learning and networking!