Well, in my experience label and artist split the profit of a release 50/50. If you're lucky you'll get an advance on this one. For that you'll give the label the permission to do whatever they feel is right with this particular recording.
Cheers! Jan ----------------- (disrupt) www.jahtari.org
Having never been on the producer side of things, I'm curious if anyone can illuminate some of the basics when it comes to artist compensation for small record labels (the kind most of us buy our vinyl from). So if Producer A writes a track, how does he/she sell it to a small electronic label? Is he/she paid a one-time fee for the track or are they given a percentage based on how many prints of the track sell? I'm interested in how this works with our music and small labels, not the rest of the music world. Maybe some of the people on here who've been producing for years can illuminate this for us? Obviously the focus should always be on the ends (good music) and not the means (how much $$ am I getting for it), but this seems like an interesting topic to me.... -Arturo Lopez-
