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Hi all. An associate of mine and myself have been discussing putting together an album. I'm a beat maker, he's a rapper. Since I dont rap, it will basically be his solo album, also he will pay for mastering, and cover design and duplication. I'll contribute use of my setup and beats. Also I'll be doing the leg work for putting everything together.

I'm realistic about the fact that since we're both completely unknown alot of the CD's will be given out rather than sold. And for now the venture is gonna be a "one time-let 'em know we're here-then go our seperate ways" project.

My question is should there be paper-work in place prior to getting into this? And if the response turns out good, considering what each individual contributed,what would be considered fair distribution of rights and profit?
 
If you are going into it with the attitude that you are going to "let em know we're here- then go our separate ways", then what's to split? If you're giving the cd's away, then 50% of zero is zero. Why go to all the trouble of the paperwork?


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zekthedeadcow
thats what I was thinking

bdbdbuck

Of course we're gonna sell as many as we can before giving 'em away. Paperwork becuz ya never know, the chemistry maybe be there and the whole thing can turn out better than anticipated.

gec

Thanks a million the info u gave was more than good. I replied over there as well
 
... ummmm .... let's think about this a bit further...


What happens if your friend suddenly (for whatever reason) makes it big in the next say... 2 yrs... and he decides to use a couple songs from the CD you made as filler material on his CD? (Could decide to put them out like Metalica did with their back to the garage stuff... pulling out old recordings seems to be very chic nowadays)


But I digress... do you REALLY wanna be that guy on Montel or Jerry Springer bitching that "He ows me! I did half the work on that CD and I got nothing!!"


Not saying go get a lawyer, but even a casual handwritten contract outlining present and future "royalties" or terms for "buyout in the event of a recording deal within "X" years" will cover your behind should your friend turnout to be the next big name in Rap!

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on the artistic side , with him rapping and you making the beats, the split would be 50/50.....

however you should set up a deal where you, as producer/engineer, get points on any future earnings......
 
My question is should there be paper-work in place prior to getting into this?

Scenario one, you don't do any paperwork prior to the deal and then end up wishing that you had, and kicking yourselves in the butt.

Scenario two, you do the proper set up but it never comes into play so no harm done.


The other two points and/or questions I have are.

Who owns the current copyrights?

And

50/50 is great only as long as both parties agree that their efforts are equal. The most common downfall of the 50/50 is one person starts feeling that the other person, whether in dollars or effort, is not matching their contribution.

All the details that you can think of should be discussed and designated and accept that several will still be overlooked.

Joe
 
tanlith

I couldn't agree more

Gidge
I couldn't agree more

Smokepole

U couldn't be righter and as for the the copyrights, from the info given we will equal owners of the copyrights where one can't use the material with out the consent of the other.

Thanks ya'llz
 
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