LUCY Academy
Royalties & business · Lesson 2 of 7
Splits, contracts, and collaborator agreements
36 minFoundationalFree
Agree splits **before** release. A dated split sheet with legal names, roles, percentages, and signatures prevents ugly disputes when money arrives months later—when memory is fuzzy and DM threads are gone.
What you’ll be able to do
- Split sheet fields: writers, producers, side artists, royalty % vs publishing %
- Work-for-hire vs ownership: know which you signed
- When DIY paperwork is enough vs when to call counsel
- Sample-heavy and featured-artist deals: red flags
Inside this lesson
- 1Watch first: a lawyer on collaboration contracts
- 2Minimum viable split sheet
- 3When to involve a lawyer
- 4Industry snapshot
In the app
Take this lesson in the LUCY app
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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