The Best Entertainment Law Books 2024

1. The New Tax Guide for Artists of Every Persuasion (Paperback)

(Limelight). Peter Jason Riley is a CPA who for many years has practiced in the Boston area. His book opens with basic material that applies to everyone, offering a roadmap through today's tax landscape and general discussions of different types of income, various kinds of expenses and IRS-allowed tax deductions. Following are the chapters that deal with the specific tax situation relevant to each category of artist. These range from the cost of acting lessons and makeup through depreciation of guitars and the maintenance of home studios to income from teaching jobs and royalties. In the final sections of the book, Riley considers various ways performers and other arts professionals can reduce their taxes, explains how to prepare for an audit, and suggests ways to locate, evaluate, choose and effectively work with a professional arts-oriented tax advisor.

The New Tax Guide for Artists of Every Persuasion (Paperback)

2. Pre-Owned What They'll Never Tell You about the Music Business: The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (& a Few Truths) (Hardcover) 0823084450 9780823084456

For anyone involved in the music business, here is your source of inside information. This book reveals what most savvy music executives already know - and hope that readers never find out.

Title: What They'll Never Tell You about the Music Business: The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (& a Few Truths) ISBN10: 0823084450 EAN: 9780823084456 Author: Thall, Peter M. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

3. Pre-Owned The New Tax Guide for Artists of Every Persuasion: Actors, Directors, Musicians, Singers, and Other Show Biz Folks (Paperback) 0879109661 9780879109660

(Limelight). Peter Jason Riley is a CPA who for many years has practiced in the Boston area. His book opens with basic material that applies to everyone, offering a roadmap through today's tax landscape and general discussions of different types of income, various kinds of expenses and IRS-allowed tax deductions. Following are the chapters that deal with the specific tax situation relevant to each category of artist. These range from the cost of acting lessons and makeup through depreciation of guitars and the maintenance of home studios to income from teaching jobs and royalties. In the final sections of the book, Riley considers various ways performers and other arts professionals can reduce their taxes, explains how to prepare for an audit, and suggests ways to locate, evaluate, choose and effectively work with a professional arts-oriented tax advisor.

Title: The New Tax Guide for Artists of Every Persuasion: Actors, Directors, Musicians, Singers, and Other Show Biz Folks Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0879109661 EAN: 9780879109660 Author: Riley, Peter Jason CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

4. Pre-Owned Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business 9781413325607

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: write a partnership agreement buy, insure, and maintain equipment use samples and do covers register your band's name sell and license your music get royalties for streaming and downloads deal with taxes and deductions find the right manager and write a fair contract get gigs and get paid protect your copyright legally deal with legal issues in the recording studio, 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 and current business practices, it covers music licensing and trends affecting the digital-music scene.

Title: Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 1413325602 EAN: 9781413325607 Author: Stim, Richard CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

5. Legal Aspects of the Music Industry (Hardcover - Used) 0823083640 9780823083640

Updated to reflect the rapid pace of change in the music industry, this new edition includes a focus on group agreements, live performances, free music on the Internet, the effect of the Millennium Copyright Act, ancillary rights, and the independent label. Other key issues covered include the artists' rebellion against record company contracts, litigation by superstars against their labels and by songwriters, and the industry-wide downturn in record sales. It provides stronger focus on music agreements than any other reference.

Title: Legal Aspects of the Music Industry ISBN10: 0823083640 EAN: 9780823083640 Author: Schulenberg, Richard CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

6. Pre-Owned Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media (Hardcover) 0314184058 9780314184054

This exciting new book contains discussions of cases, interviews with celebrities, and other materials that help educate readers about the complicated entertainment business. To capture first-hand knowledge of the entertainment business, Burr conducted interviews throughout the United States, Australia, England, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. Celebrities featured in the book include Academy Award and Grammy winners, as well as best-selling authors and TV stars. The volume opens with a chapter on the globalization of the entertainment industry and explains how mastering U.S. entertainment law helps qualify lawyers to work abroad.

Title: Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media ISBN10: 0314184058 EAN: 9780314184054 Author: Burr, Sherri L. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

7. Pre-Owned Making It in the Music Business: The Business and Legal Guide for Songwriters Performers (Paperback) 1581150369 9781581150360

9781581150360. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Little Book Series. This guide aims to provide solid advice and information for songwriters and performers who want to make it in the competitive music industry. The author provides a lively discussion of music law, rights and contracts, and this revised edition also updates information on copyright law and protection, copyright infringement and how to avoid it, trademark law, business law for bands, the roles of bookers, managers, music publishers and lawyers, and the provisions of music publishing, management and booking agreements.

Title: Making It in the Music Business: The Business and Legal Guide for Songwriters and Performers ISBN10: 1581150369 EAN: 9781581150360 Genre: LAW / Entertainment Author: Wilson, Lee CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Pre-Owned Entertainment Law in a Nutshell (Paperback) 0314280618 9780314280619

9780314280619. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 3rd ed. Language: English. Pages: 440. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 440 p. In a Nutshell (West Publishing). This compact reference gives a big picture overview of the intellectual property, contract, publicity, estate planning, and First Amendment issues that contribute to the field of entertainment law. Professor Burr also addresses specific legal issues that arise in the film, music, and television industries, including discussion of the rise of "reality" television. This Nutshell is ideal as a secondary text to accompany any entertainment law casebook, as the primary text for a seminar, or as background information for someone requiring an overview.

Title: Entertainment Law in a Nutshell ISBN10: 0314280618 EAN: 9780314280619 Author: Burr, Sherri CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

9. Pre-Owned Financial Management for Musicians (Paperback) 0872887138 9780872887138

Financial Management for Musicians by Pam Gaines; Cathy McCormack

Title: Financial Management for Musicians ISBN10: 0872887138 EAN: 9780872887138 Author: Pam Gaines; Cathy McCormack CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

10. Secrets of Negotiating a Recording Contract : The Musician's Guide to Understanding and Avoiding Sneaky Lawyer Tricks (Edition 2) (Paperback)

Rev. ed. of: Secrets of negotiating a recording contract. c2001. (Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). The ultimate guide to understanding and avoiding, in the author's words, "sneaky lawyer tricks," Secrets of Negotiating a Record Contract helps artists recognize hidden agendas by exposing the multilayered language of recording agreements crafted by major label lawyers. Clause by clause, the newly updated book deconstructs actual contracts and translates them into "real English," presenting the original and decoded versions side by side. Focusing on artists' issues, such as advances, royalties, and distribution, this revealing handbook explains the need for each clause, offers advice on negotiating fine points, and outlines alternatives for developing new contracts. User-friendly and offering entertaining inside stories, Secrets of Negotiating a Record Contract clarifies common terms uniquely redefined by the music industry to put power back into the hands of those who make the music. Features: * Explains the entire recording contract line by line in plain English * Reveals over 100 key loopholes and double-dips that will cost artists money * Includes a glossary of major label recording-contract jargon

Secrets of Negotiating a Recording Contract: The Musician's Guide to Understanding and Avoiding Sneaky Lawyer Tricks (Other)