Music Publishing 101
View a promo video of course author Eric Beall discussing music publishing.
Authored by the former Vice President, Creative at Sony/ATV Music and current A&R executive for Shapiro Bernstein, Music Publishing 101 provides a step-by-step guide to setting up your own publishing company, including administration of copyrights, the role of performance rights organizations, and preparing a functioning accounting system for your catalog. You'll develop your own publicity plan, submit your songs to the instructor for critique, and register your songs with the copyright office. You'll also learn how to market and promote your compositions and writers by developing effective pitch and promotion strategies, and discover how to turn that stack of demos and lyrics in the closet into a real, independent business.
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Online Summer Term Starts June 25th
Course Info
| For-credit tuition: $1,400 |
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Non-credit tuition: $1,200 Add 6 CEUs: $25.00 |
| Credits: 3 |
| Duration: 12 weeks |
| Catalog #: BMB-170 |
Course Faculty 
| Eric Beall Former Vice President, Creative at Sony/ATV Music and current A&R executive for Shapiro Bernstein. | |
| Chris Horvath The founder and creative director of Jamnation Music. | |
| George Howard Producer and musician has written several books on the music industry. | |
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Course Preview
Does the idea of supporting yourself writing songs make you more than a little nervous? It can be done, and no one knows better than Eric Beall, Vice President of A&R at Sony/ATV and author of the Berkleemusic online course “Music Publishing 101,” a twelve-week online course that will empower songwriters to take control of their own careers by acting as their own publisher. Read more
Student Comments
"I wouldn’t have had the knowledge base that I can count on now if I hadn’t taken Music Publishing 101. It was truly valuable to my career, jump-starting my ability to comprehend this complex and specific part of the industry." -D. Gross, recently hired Mechanical Licensing Coordinator at Razor and Tie
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