GUIDES & RESOURCES
Music Business and Songwriting
A quick guide containing links to selected websites, books, movies, magazines, online databases and other resources to help you find what you are looking for.
Websites
- How Do I Learn About the Music Business?
- An excellent music business tutorial from the Monroe County (NY) Library System.
- Music Publishers' Association
- Directory of music publishers, an excellent copyright resource center, and an on-line primer of standard music notation practices.
- United States Copyright Office
- How to register a work for copyright. Downloadable forms and instructions for submitting them.
- Harry Fox Agency
- Clearinghouse and monitoring service for licensing musical copyrights.
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- Music business news, advice, workshops and grants for songwriters. Provides access to Ace on the Web - a database of song titles licensed by ASCAP.
- BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated)
- Industry information, plus access to composer, title and publisher information through a searchable database of 7.5 million songs licensed to BMI.
- SESAC
- Repertory list of songs licensed by SESAC plus information on the publishers and songwriters represented.
Library Materials
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musicians business legal guide by: 780.29 MUS 2001 |
Kohn on music licensing by: Kohn, Al 780.29 KOH 2002 |
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musicians atlas by: 780.29 MUS |
music business an insiders guide to breaking in by: VHS 780.29 MUS |
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Songwriters workshop by: CASS 784.028 SON |
Songwriters workshop by: CASS 780.29 |
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Make it happen in hip hop rap by: VHS 780.29 MAK |
Recording industry sourcebook by: 789.91 REC |
