Puvblishing Payments & Deductions

This Week's Contents

Each week the current week's contents of the lessons will be linked in the order of study. Lessons from previous weeks, which are still available, are also linked (but shown with a gray background). If you start your study with the first link (like you should) there will be links to the next step at the end of the linked page/item.

Lesson 8a: Elements Of A Hit

Lesson 8b: Songwriting Partnership Agreements

Lesson 8 Review Question

Lesson 9a: Breaking In As A Songwriter

Lesson 9b: Music Publishing

Lesson 9 Review Question

Lesson 10: Negotiating A Publishing Contract (3 page lesson)

Lesson 10 Review Question

Lesson 11a: Cross-collateralization

Lesson 11b Performance Rights Organizations

Lesson 11c: Functions of a Publishing Contract

For each lesson, you will be given one or more "performance objectives" for the lesson. These are the things that you are to understand after you study the lesson. These are the things you will be tested on. There are 80 performance objectives in the entire course. Here are the performance objectives for this week's lessons:

2-9) Define "cross-collateralization."

2-12) List the 3 major performance rights organizations.

2-16) List the criteria publishers use in accepting new material.

2-17) Explain the two functions of a publishing contract.

Study Guide

For maximum effectiveness, you need to study the lessons three times. It has been proven that the average person can forget a majority of what is read after about 3 days, if it isn't reinforced. To counteract this, read it on day 1, re-read it on day 3 and then read it again just before you study the next lesson.

Online Questions

As always, you can ask a question, or discuss a lesson at the "Ask RID Forum" at Recording Website.

General Information About This Service

We will be posting at a rate which allows you to finish the module in a little over 6 months. There are a lot of lessons! For each lesson, there will be one or two test questions that will help you make sure you get the most key points of the lesson. After you finish each "section" of the course, there will a multiple question quiz for you to take. There are 4 study sections to the course, which means that you will have a section quiz every 6-7 weeks.
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