Making Money as a Songwriter and Music Publisher

August 30, 2007

This Boot Camp featured Todd and Jeff Brabec, authors of the best-selling book Music, Money and Success: The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business.

The Brabecs are former recording artists as well as entertainment lawyers. They both lecture extensively on all aspects of the business, legal, and money side of music.

Todd Brabec is Executive Vice President and Director of Membership for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the world's largest performing rights organization.

Jeff Brabec is Vice President of Business Affairs for The Chrysalis Music Group where he specializes in evaluating, analyzing, and negotiating music publishing acquisitions.

Musicians need to know the many different avenues where they can generate income and the types of deals common to these areas.

This one-stop primer on music and money covers how music generates income from use in videogames, motion pictures and television licensing, CD sales, ringtones and ring backs, advertising commercials, downloads, conditional downloads, streaming, Broadway, music boxes, dolls, toys, greeting cards, webcasting, mobile devices, digital distribution, remixes and samples, foreign countries, and much more.