From the course: Music Law: Recording, Management, Rights, and Performance Contracts
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Producer agreements
From the course: Music Law: Recording, Management, Rights, and Performance Contracts
Producer agreements
- A producer is a professional who directs the recording in mixing sessions. Most producers are paid a fee for their work and receive a percentage of the income from their recording. Producer agreements typically come in three major flavors. The first type is a record company, producer agreement. In this arrangement, a record company hires a producer to produce his song or an album. Even through the record company hires the producer, the payment typically comes from the artist. That is the record company pays the producer and then later deducts that cost from the artist royalties. The royalties that are paid to the producer often, in addition to the producing fee, are also usually deducted from the artist royalty. So for example, if the artist is getting a 15 percent royalty, the artist may have to pay three percent or four percent of that to the producer. This type of production agreement usually includes a few major components, including the producer assigns copyright to the label…
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