When it comes to being a talent manager, you have your work cut out for you. You have many duties to handle regularly from planning your artist’s next move to shaping their career strategy. But as you ...

Here are five surprising, sneaky or shocking contract clauses bands should look out for, with Nonexister's Marco Neeser, who has studied law and earned a PhD for his doctoral thesis about artist ...

MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following op/ed comes from ...

SXSW got a lot of heat for the language in their artist contracts, with many artists signing an open letter to the festival. SXSW responded to the backlash, but artists/activists like Downtown Boys, ...

The Artist Protection Act of 2009, introduced by D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh of Ward 3 and set to pass this Council session, seeks to guarantee the establishment of a legal contract between artists ...

If Bozzio had been signed to a label as an artist, it would’ve been her responsibility as an independent contractor to obtain health insurance on her own or through membership in a union like ...

Taylor Swift's UMG deal could get the company's artists a big payout from UMG's sale of Spotify shares announced on Wednesday (April 29).