How to make your band a huge business success Whether you're recording an album, budgeting a tour, or insuring your vintage guitar, you need solid information to make the right legal and business choices. Music Law is the all-in-one guide you need. Written by musician and lawyer Rich Stim, it explains everything you need to: draft a partnership agreement buy, insure, and maintain equipment use samples and do covers register your band's name sell your music license your music deal with taxes find the right manager and write a fair contract get gigs and get paid tour on a budget protect your copyright legally choose a recording studio manage your website, and understand record contracts. This is quite simply the best business and legal guide for bands ever written. Completely updated to provide the latest in the law, it covers music licensing and trends affecting the digital-music scene.