MUSB 400A - Topics in Music Business: Business and Legal Aspects of the Music Industry

Prerequisite, MUSB 100 or music major/any of the music minors or consent of instructor. Fundamentals of music copyright laws as applicable to traditional and new media including contracts, licensing, and royalties; infringement case studies; contractual relationships with composers, arrangers, orchestrators and other music professionals; working with unions, basics of employment law; negotiation tactics, money and power relationship and inequities in the practice of the law. Letter grade. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits