How to Start a Recording Label

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Gary Vandy from garyvandy.com here at Studio Center. Let's talk a little about how to start a recording label. Now I'm going to talk about a production company label which is basically a producer's company. A producer is somebody who is in charge of all the aspects of making a recording, all the way down to the final pressing on the CD. The thing first you want to do is make sure all the music that whatever you are working with is copy written before you do anything. I cannot stress that enough. That is the most important part. Even before you go into a commercial studio or play it for anybody you make sure you fill out a PA form and you have it copy written with the government copyright office. After that forming a production company is fairly easy. It is a general corporation. You can do it on line or you can hire an attorney which if you are serious, you will want to do anyway and form a corporation for the purpose of producing music and you work within that corporation and you are set to go. I mean there is little things you have to do and I would suggest reading a book called "This Business of Music"."