Overview
Copyright basics
Types of copyrights
Mechanical royalties
Performance royalties
Synchronization
Other types of income
Songwriters and publishers
Digging deeper
The value of music
This is a low-budget production
It will be good exposure
A foreign idea
Step this way
Subjective tense
Types of publishing deals
Ownership vs. administration
Work for hire
Songwriting
Administration
Copublishing
The final solution
Beware the jabberwock, my son
Song plugging
No deal at all
I have it here someplace
Mechanical licenses
Compulsory licenses
Compulsory license requirements
Mechanical licenses in the real world
You're a publisher again
Reduced rate licensing
Harry who?
Oh! Canada!
Record clubs
Those other foreigners
Who gets the money?
Performance income
How the system works
Direct licenses
Ok, so where does all the money go?
Getting in on the action
I still haven't been paid
What's on tv?
Do they monitor my gym?


The enforcer
My performing right society is better than yours
Synchronizations
Film factors
Half the world
Out-of-context uses
I ain't got no money that I can depend on
There's never anything on tv
Video licenses
It was here a second ago
That's BS! No, PBS
Those foreigners did what?
Least favored nations
A few more do's and don'ts
Confirmation letters
Sundry uses
Advertising
Video games
Print
Ringtones
Karaoke
Foreign translations
Samples
That's not fair; or is it?
New technologies
Subpublishing
A good subpublisher
Let's make a deal
An experiment gone wrong
The subpublisher dinner circuit
Cowriting and copublishing
Back to reality
Don't bogart that joint (work)
Let's make more paper
Controlled composition clauses
A controlled what?
The meter is running
Our special reducing formula
Just in case that isn't enough
Et tu, Brute?
Wait, there's more!
Seen it all before? Or have you?
Can you make it all go away?
More on copyright
Hey PA, what's this form?
Wait, I changed my mind
The corporation wrote your song
I feel renewed
Transfers and other forms
Can you help me, SR?
The advantages of being dead
The advantages of being foreign
Representation and further advice
You get what you pay for
My lawyer is a sewer, er, suer
A boy named sue
Let us count this day our daily beans
Know what they owe
Learn me more
Appendix: Can you do the splits?
Glossary
Index.