LUCY Academy

Money, tax & running it like a business · Lesson 5 of 6

Insurance, gear and the risks worth covering

18 minFoundationalFree

Insurance is boring until the van is emptied outside a venue. The risks worth covering in music are specific and fairly cheap to insure, and one of them is increasingly a condition of getting booked at all.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the risks that actually happen to artists
  • Know what venues and festivals require
  • Decide what is worth insuring and what is not
  • Keep a gear record that makes a claim possible

Inside this lesson

  1. 1What to consider
  2. 2Making a claim possible

In the app

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Open it in LUCY and the lesson rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Free with your account.

  • Rewritten around your genre and where you're at
  • A coach that can see the releases in your account
  • Narrated — put it on while you work
  • A badge for the track when you finish it
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In this lesson you will learn: Identify the risks that actually happen to artists. Know what venues and festivals require. Decide what is worth insuring and what is not. Keep a gear record that makes a claim possible.

About this lesson

Insurance is boring until the van is emptied outside a venue. The risks worth covering in music are specific and fairly cheap to insure, and one of them is increasingly a condition of getting booked at all.

What this lesson covers

Identify the risks that actually happen to artists

Know what venues and festivals require

Decide what is worth insuring and what is not

Keep a gear record that makes a claim possible

Inside this lesson

What to consider

Making a claim possible

Take this lesson in the LUCY app

Open this lesson in LUCY and it rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Finish the track and the badge is yours. Free with a LUCY account.