LUCY Academy
Rights, splits & publishing · Lesson 6 of 6
Reading a deal: term, territory, reversion
24 minFoundationalFree
Music contracts are built from a small set of recurring clauses. You do not need to draft them — you need to find them and know what each one costs you. A lawyer is still worth paying for; going in able to read the shape of the deal is what makes that hour productive.
What you’ll be able to do
- Find the clauses that decide ownership in any contract
- Tell a licence apart from an assignment at a glance
- Ask the three questions that change a deal's real value
- Know when the answer is to walk away
Inside this lesson
- 1The clauses that decide ownership
- 2Three questions worth asking out loud
- 3When to walk
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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