Dear Rich: I used to write songs with a musician friend until we had a falling out. Fast forward four years, and I'm now releasing an al...

Dear Rich: My teenage son has been streaming music on various digital platforms. Does he need to file taxes on the money he has generated? T...

Dear Rich: I'm a musician who composed a piece of instrumental music inspired by a 1995 New York Times article. When performing the mu...

Felice and Boudreaux Bryant, cowriters of Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Rocky Top, and other great hi...

Dear Rich: The term "in perpetuity" appears in record contracts quite often in regard to ownership of masters yet that same term...

Dear Rich: How does one prevent a compulsory license from being obtained? For example, what if I don't WANT anyone else recording MY s...

Dear Rich: Are there standard fees negotiated for using pop music in podcasts? Does music licensing work as it does in commercial use, whe...

Dear Rich: I'm a musician and have a question about filing my sound recording and song copyright applications. The copyright circular ...

Dear Rich: I have a contract with an artist who is now seeing some success. He decided out of nowhere that he wanted to redo our contrac...

Dear Rich: Here's a question for you regarding published music. Charles Ives Variation on America is a piece of music arranged for...

Dear Rich: I recently started a music production business and I am in the process of signing a new artist as his manager. I have some ques...

Dear Rich: (1) What is the length of time the U.S. Copyright Office takes to approve or not approve a copyright application? (2) If I secure...

Dear Rich: The company I work for -- for-profit Fortune 50 -- has been creating songs as learning tools for its employees and clients'...

Dear Rich: I have a sizable film collection of 16mm music films (soundies) from the 1940’s that I would like to assemble into a program fo...

Dear Rich: I'm thinking of starting a a business that re-packages recordings on memory sticks. I'm in San Francisco and I have a...

Dear Rich: I am working on a "for profit" project to create musical exercises for instrumentalists. Part of this will be to use ...

Dear Rich: I have many songs that were written/recorded to a drum beat (loop) or with no music. I write the lyrics, arrangement and compo...

Dear Rich: May I ask for some advice towards various factors that may affect income (including net receipts/at source deals) between admin...

Dear Rich: I recently resigned as a guitarist from a band I had co-founded due to harassment. Upon leaving (and under duress), I was forc...

Dear Rich: I am working on a tribute album and I'm trying to figure out the distinction between derivative works and transformative fa...