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| First Steps | |
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| Your Team of Advisors | |
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| How to Pick a Team | |
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| Getting Your Team Together | |
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| Business Philosophy | |
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| Hiring a Team | |
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| Changing a Team Member | |
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| Cocktail Party Talk | |
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| Personal Managers | |
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| Role | |
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| Commission Overview | |
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| Negotiating the Manager's Deal | |
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| Picking the Right Manager | |
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| Business Managers | |
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| Role | |
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| How to Pick a Business Manager | |
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| Business Manager Checklist | |
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| Fees | |
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| Your Half of the Job | |
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| Attorneys | |
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| Picking a Lawyer | |
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| Fees | |
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| Conflicts of Interest | |
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| Attorney Checklist | |
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| Agents | |
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| Role | |
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| Fees | |
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| Deal Points | |
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| Picking an Agent | |
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| Record Deals | |
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| Broad-Strokes Overview of the Record Business | |
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| Industry Structure | |
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| What's a Record? | |
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| Masters | |
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| Royalty Computation | |
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| Ye Olde Royalty Calculations | |
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| Advances and Recoupment | |
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| Advances: The Basic Concept | |
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| Cross-collateralization | |
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| Real-Life Numbers | |
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| Overview | |
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| Royalties | |
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| Advances | |
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| Career Co-ventures | |
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| Look How Much You Already Know | |
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| Other Major Deal Points | |
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| Amount of Product | |
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| How Long? | |
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| Mega Deals | |
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| Delivery Requirements | |
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| Controlled Compositions | |
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| Greatest Hits | |
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| Live Albums | |
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| Guaranteed Release | |
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| Independents Day | |
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| Producer and Mixer Deals | |
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| What's a Producer? | |
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| Royalties | |
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| Advances | |
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| Who Hires the Producer? | |
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| A Major Point -- Pay Attention | |
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| Mixers | |
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| Advanced Record Deal Points | |
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| Advanced Demo Deal Negotiation | |
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| Exclusivity | |
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| Videos | |
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| Independent Promotion | |
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| Merchandising Rights | |
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| Tour Support | |
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| Territory | |
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| Union Per-Record Charges | |
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| Album Cover Artwork | |
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| Creative, Marketing, and Other Controls | |
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| Reserve Limitations | |
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| Sound | |
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| Scan | |
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| Special Packaging Costs | |
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| Accountings | |
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| Advanced Royalty Computations | |
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| Distribution Methods | |
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| Royalties for United States Sales | |
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| Foreign Royalties | |
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| R.O.W.New Technologies, Electronic Transmissions, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | |
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| Master Licenses | |
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| Coupling and Compilations | |
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| Joint Recordings | |
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| "Greatest Hits" Albums | |
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| Multiple Albums | |
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| Box Sets | |
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| Television Advertising | |
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| DVDs and Other Home Video Devices | |
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| Mid-Price Records | |
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| Budget Records | |
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| New and Developing Artist Prices | |
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| Record Clubs | |
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| Cutouts, Deletes, Scraps, and Other Food for Bottom Feeders | |
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| Premiums | |
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| Video Games | |
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| DART, Digital Performance, and Webcasting Monies | |
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| Foreign Public Performance of Masters | |
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| Loan-out, Independent Production, Label, and Distribution Deals | |
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| Loan-out Deals | |
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| Independent Production Agreements | |
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| Joint Ventures | |
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| Pressing and Distribution (P&D) Deals | |
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| Upstream Deals | |
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| Songwriting and Music Publishing | |
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| Copyright Basics | |
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| Basic Copyright Concepts | |
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| What Are All These Rights You Get? | |
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| Exceptions to the Copyright Monopoly | |
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| Compulsory Mechanical Licenses | |
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| Publishing Companies and Major | |
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| Income Sources | |
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| Publishing Overview | |
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| Sources of Income | |
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| Mechanical Royalties | |
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| Controlled Composition Clauses | |
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| Maximum Rate Per Song | |
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| Maximum Rate Per Album | |
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| Public-Performance Royalties | |
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| Secondary Publishing Income | |
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| Printed Music | |
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| Synchronization and Transcription Licenses | |
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| Electronic Transmissions, Including Digital Downloads, Ring Tones, Webcasting, Subscription Services, and Podcasting | |
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| Foreign Subpublishing | |
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| DART Monies (Audio Home Recording Act of ) Bonus Section! | |
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| How to Set Up a Publishing Company | |
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| Songwriter Deals | |
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| Songwriter Royalties | |
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| Standard Contracts | |
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| Performance Monies | |
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| Printed Music Royalties | |
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| DART and Webcasting Monies | |
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| Advances | |
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| Term Songwriter Agreements | |
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| Pop Quiz | |
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| Collaboration (Two or More Songwriters) | |
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| Creative Control | |
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| Reversion of Copyrig | |