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Introduction
"What a RELIEF! …to finally have one, single place I can go for clear answers about registering works and collecting royalties…in addition to how partnerships work with publishers and other creators. It’s a quagmire, and Michael makes it friendly and accessible. " August Eriksmoen - Grammy nominated producer, Tony Award nominee, Olivier Award winning orchestrator.
"I am a music supervisor and I know a lot about the sync side of the music industry. I’ve hired Mana Music quite a bit to work on some of my projects, and I was excited to see that they have a program now teaching about the music business. I was able to listen to it and watch the videos and it is amazing. It gives you all the information you need to know to be successful as an independent musician and handle all of your own admin business and all the things that are essential to be successful in the music industry. So, definitely check it out!" Ashley Neumeister Music Supervisor Senior VP of Music Supervision, Music Licensing, and Production Disney, CBS, BET, etc.
"FINALLY! Michael’s course has already helped me recover THOUSANDS of dollars of royalties that I would have otherwise lost. And not for nothing, but I’ve been in this business for 30 years, and have agents and lawyers. It's still overwhelming. This course gets to the meat of it QUICKLY and easily." AJ - studio musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer
"As someone who has worked in the music industry for many years, I can confidently say that The Elephant in the Music Business course delivers exceptionally valuable insights—much of which is rarely discussed or taught in traditional settings. You could spend over $100K on a music business degree at a prestigious university and still come away without a clear understanding of this fundamental information. You might eventually learn and integrate a majority of this information over 10-20 years of being in various music industry environments, but after this length of time in music myself, I can honestly say that I learned a few things I didn’t know in the course. If you’re a casual musician with no interest in monetizing your work, this course may not be necessary. But if you’re serious about your craft—whether as an artist, songwriter, producer, or manager—and want to build sustainable income from music, then do yourself a huge favor and dive into this course. The investment will return itself to you many times over." Jolene Rose, Founder & Creative Director at Goldengate Media
"Thank you for this course Michael! This course was easy to navigate and easy to access, both on a desktop computer and also on a mobile phone. The videos are short, the language is clear, and there’s visual aids for the videos so it feels accommodating for different learning styles. It’s a great refresher for those of us that learned this at one point, but forgot some things along the way. It’s also perfect for those who are completely new to the music business—it is a great introductory course that you can keep going back to as you need it! I really appreciate the PDF samples at the end because that has always been a major roadblock for me and other collaborators. It takes time to generate contracts from scratch and it can be discouraging and intimidating. Michael’s PDFs are an extremely valuable part of this course. Thank you for demystifying the business and sharing your knowledge with us." Sonni Shine Independent Artist
“This course takes you through it all. Michael takes on the hard task of demystifying the particulars of the music business and serving it in bite-sized portions. I didn’t know how much important knowledge I’d been missing. From songwriting splits and sub-publishing to master rights and copyrights, his succinct explainers make me feel like I can get all my songs registered accurately and completely. This course is a must for any independent artist, songwriter, or producer! BC, producer, composer and songwriter - played on Grammy winning albums.
The Elephant In The
Music Business
A complete course of tutorial videos to help in understanding United States copyrights, royalties, and getting paid in the music industry.
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Understand ownership & copyrights
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Learn how royalties work
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Register your music correctly
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Avoid common industry mistakes
WHO THIS IS FOR?
If you create music or work with music creators in the United States, and want to understand how to negotiate percentages of writing ownership, master ownership or points on a specific project and make sure you get paid, this will be an enormously helpful asset for you in your music business.
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Independent artists
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Musicians
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Songwriters
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Producers
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Collaborators
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Artist managers
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Engineers
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Orchestrators
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Arrangers