exnihilo
08-18-2007, 12:35 PM
Well first of all, hello everyone. This is actually my first post, but I've always found everyone here infinitely resourceful while lurking as a guest.
A little primer about myself: I'm a 23-year old sidelined college student from the Central Georgia area. I'm part owner and vice-president of an entertainment company that owns a recording studio that I manage from day to day. The studio offers the usual recording and production packages, with in-house CD Duplication/Packaging services.
Another function of the entertainment company is holding contracts with a host of local artists and producers, who receive incentives at the recording studio for belonging to the company's label.
Now, the last year or two I've been doing a lot of venue rentals for those artists and bands. At first the rentals were just run of the mill concerts around town, but soon I began coupling the performances with judged talent shows. I usually offered free recording and production packages as prizes, 10-hour lockouts and such valued north of $500.
Went on to start doing venue sales, went on to gain interest in reporting venue sales to Soundscan, went on to renting venues to host private parties for any number of reasons.
Anyway, I'm young, inexperienced and I'm no booking agent nor promoter, but I've gone from venue renting to opening a club.
I have a 6,000 sq. ft. building divided into two floors; the building was previously a sports bar (bottom level)/dance club (top level). The top level features a decent stage with a rear DJ room/enclosure, and pretty spacious dance floor.
I point out the stage because, most competition in my area are booked solid with live performances; but they're all trendy restaurants with international cuisine that have to practically rearrange their entire floorplan to accommodate performances, and/or utilize portable stages. So having a venue built for the purpose could be advantageous.
Now, naturally all the concepts I've come up with to establish as premises for the upcoming business plan have been steeped in what I already know about; recording and publishing.
A core idea of mine to hinge the club upon was to record the audio and video of booked talent and do the following things:
--Offer unmixed audio and raw footage of performances as a sort of plus on the general companion website for the club.
--Stream the syndicated content on wall-mounted televisions during more idle operating hours.
--Create seasonal or volume based compilations of the club's best live performances in both CD and DVD form. The benefits over free web content would be mixed and mastered audio, and higher quality edited video.
Now, the latter most idea would serve as more than making a buck for the business. I'm used to working with compilation contracts, and I figured offering royalties to different acts would both aide in attracting local talent and increasing visibility of the venue in town.
So, on to my questions based on the above.
1. Assuming all content recorded, published and sold are entirely original, are there any legal considerations one can think of outside a general recording contract the performed single? If there's no cover performances or sampling involved, I can't think of needing any outside licensing.
2. What're your opinions on the idea when it comes to creating promotions for the club? I feel it would attract local talent, and a competitive "battle of bands" atmosphere if guest spots on compilations were regularly rewarded and put out seasonly.
Sorry if I'm being vague, I could tell you more about my situation (and I plan to), but I didn't want to spam up my first post. So I'll start with this.
A little primer about myself: I'm a 23-year old sidelined college student from the Central Georgia area. I'm part owner and vice-president of an entertainment company that owns a recording studio that I manage from day to day. The studio offers the usual recording and production packages, with in-house CD Duplication/Packaging services.
Another function of the entertainment company is holding contracts with a host of local artists and producers, who receive incentives at the recording studio for belonging to the company's label.
Now, the last year or two I've been doing a lot of venue rentals for those artists and bands. At first the rentals were just run of the mill concerts around town, but soon I began coupling the performances with judged talent shows. I usually offered free recording and production packages as prizes, 10-hour lockouts and such valued north of $500.
Went on to start doing venue sales, went on to gain interest in reporting venue sales to Soundscan, went on to renting venues to host private parties for any number of reasons.
Anyway, I'm young, inexperienced and I'm no booking agent nor promoter, but I've gone from venue renting to opening a club.
I have a 6,000 sq. ft. building divided into two floors; the building was previously a sports bar (bottom level)/dance club (top level). The top level features a decent stage with a rear DJ room/enclosure, and pretty spacious dance floor.
I point out the stage because, most competition in my area are booked solid with live performances; but they're all trendy restaurants with international cuisine that have to practically rearrange their entire floorplan to accommodate performances, and/or utilize portable stages. So having a venue built for the purpose could be advantageous.
Now, naturally all the concepts I've come up with to establish as premises for the upcoming business plan have been steeped in what I already know about; recording and publishing.
A core idea of mine to hinge the club upon was to record the audio and video of booked talent and do the following things:
--Offer unmixed audio and raw footage of performances as a sort of plus on the general companion website for the club.
--Stream the syndicated content on wall-mounted televisions during more idle operating hours.
--Create seasonal or volume based compilations of the club's best live performances in both CD and DVD form. The benefits over free web content would be mixed and mastered audio, and higher quality edited video.
Now, the latter most idea would serve as more than making a buck for the business. I'm used to working with compilation contracts, and I figured offering royalties to different acts would both aide in attracting local talent and increasing visibility of the venue in town.
So, on to my questions based on the above.
1. Assuming all content recorded, published and sold are entirely original, are there any legal considerations one can think of outside a general recording contract the performed single? If there's no cover performances or sampling involved, I can't think of needing any outside licensing.
2. What're your opinions on the idea when it comes to creating promotions for the club? I feel it would attract local talent, and a competitive "battle of bands" atmosphere if guest spots on compilations were regularly rewarded and put out seasonly.
Sorry if I'm being vague, I could tell you more about my situation (and I plan to), but I didn't want to spam up my first post. So I'll start with this.