Do What You Love
Interested in the music business? SMCC can provide the training you need to hit all the right notes! Learn the basics of songwriting, publishing, copyright procedures, recording techniques, and promotion, as well as the use of music in radio, telecommunications and film.
If music is already your life, make it your career as well.
Courses Offerings
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Fast Facts
- Songwriters and Publishers are members of a Performing Rights Society, either ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, that licenses, collects and distributes money for it's members, for "Usage" of it's songs.
- There's nothing in a recording agreement that guarantees a recording company has to release anything that you've recorded.
- The "Power of Attorney" clause found in many agreements gives a person the power to sign a person's name to any type of agreement without the creative person's approval.
- Often the best types of lawyers to work with on a recording deal are the same ones who work with the specific company offering the deal.
- It is easier to find investors who can invest 20,000,000 than finding ones who will invest 20,000.
(Sources: Professor Pooch, CNN)