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Music Industry Agreements – free guide

by Ian on February 29, 2012

Everything you ever wanted to know about music industry agreements, all wrapped up in a free pdf. I’d always intended to write something along the lines of this guide, but now there’s really no need as this is great piece of work and does the job as well as I could – probably better. Whether [...]

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Sample clearance – a cautionary tale

by Ian on October 11, 2011

I used to be a music lawyer and I was a bit of an authority (for a while) on sampling and sample clearance in the early ’90′s. Then I ran a bunch of dance labels and worked with a lot of electronic artists. I have cleared a lot of samples but I have released way [...]

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