For session musicians to get credited on albums, they often need to be playing on the recording and contribute in a material way. It’s the minimum they deserve for putting their touch onto a song or record. Session musicians get credited on albums through notes placed within album liners. There are also federal and international…
With all of the recent strikes among the Writers and Actors guilds making headlines, it’s shined a lot of light on other areas of the entertainment industry – including music. If writers for television and film have union protections, do songwriters too? Songwriters unfortunately do not currently have union representation, as they are not classified…
In the music world, knowing if you own your masters is never as easy as it sounds. Yet it is something more and more artists are investigating as they enter the business. Owning your masters means that you own all licensing rights to the original recording of a song, and receive the royalties for its…
