Describe your project
Your role, your objectives, and the context of the collaboration.
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What music contract do you need ?
Please indicate your role, project, and context. MusiLaw will guide you to the most relevant package or category.
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Your recommendation
What is your primary role ?
Choose the profile that best matches your project.
What is your main objective ?
The priority need determines the recommended contract family.
Where will the project be exploited ?
The territory influences the language, applicable law and scope of rights.
Should the collaboration be exclusive ?
Exclusivity must always be limited and precisely defined.
At what stage is the project ?
This allows for adjustments to the key points of the outcome.
Recommended pack
This recommendation best matches your role and main objective.
Why this pack ?
Beatmaker Pack
To frame the licensing of beats, the permitted uses, exclusivity, credits, and compensation.
Why this pack ?
Music Licensing Pack
To authorise the exploitation of a work or a master within a precisely defined scope.
Why this pack ?
Artist & Recording Pack
To structure recordings, collaborations, performances, credits, validations, and revenues.
Why this pack ?
Music production pack
To frame creation, financing, masters, deliverables, credits, and royalties.
Why this pack ?
Label & Record Label Pack
To sign, produce, license, and develop artists within a coherent contractual framework.
Why this pack ?
Management Pack
To define the manager's missions, commission, duration, exclusivity, and responsibilities.
Why this pack ?
Music Publishing Pack
To organise the publishing, co-publishing, administration, distributions, and exploitation of works.
Why this pack ?
Concert Production Package
To organise booking, performances, technical conditions, cancellations, and recordings.
- Ensure that the contract matches the framework and practices of the French market.
- Specify the language of the contract, the applicable law, and the affected territories.
- Distinguish the territories and check the consistency between French and international exploitation.
- Avoid too vague a territory : define it before signing.
- Clearly limit exclusivity in terms of time, territories, and usage.
- Clearly describe the allowed uses and limits of the non-exclusive license.
- Separate exclusive rights from rights that can be granted to multiple partners.
- Compare exclusive and non-exclusive variants before making a choice.
- Defining the project before the first deliverables reduces ambiguities.
- Also formalise what has already been delivered, paid for, or exploited.
- Match each clause with the conditions actually negotiated.
- Even in an emergency, check the parties, amounts, duration, territories, and appendices.
Artist
Beatmaker
Producer
Label
Manager
Publisher
Live
Release
Beat sales
License
Collaboration
Production
Label signing
Management
Publishing
France
International
France + international
Territory to be defined
Exclusive
Non-exclusive
Mixed exclusivity
Exclusivity to be defined
Project start
Ongoing project
Agreement discussed
Urgent signing
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A recommendation in three steps.
Specify the framework
Territory, exclusivity, and level of project advancement.
Access the right starting point
A priority package and a secondary category to compare.
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Before signing
Points that must remain clear.
Whatever the recommended model, ensure the agreement precisely describes the scope of the collaboration.
Compare packages →Rights and uses
What can be exploited, on what media, and by whom.
Duration and territories
The relevant period, countries, and exit conditions.
Compensation
Amount, royalties, advances, calculations, deadlines, and supporting documents.
Credits and validations
Notes, deliverables, decisions, and approvals before release.
Official resources
To verify and delve deeper.
A short selection of French and international references.
France
SACEMCopyright and collective management↗ National Music CenterPractical sheets on music professions↗ INPIGuidelines on copyright↗ LégifranceIntellectual property code↗International
WIPOIntellectual property and music↗ IFPIGlobal recorded music industry↗ PRS for MusicMusic rights in the UK↗ ASCAPPerforming rights in the United States↗Understanding the result of the quiz.
Does the quiz replace legal advice?
No. It helps identify a family of contracts. Complex negotiation, litigation, or international operations may require tailored advice.
Which contract to choose to sell a beat?
The framework mainly depends on exclusivity, permitted uses, duration, territories, and remuneration. The quiz generally points towards the Beatmaker Pack or the Music Licences Pack.
What is the difference between a license and the assignment of rights?
A license permits certain uses within a defined scope. A transfer assigns all or part of specified rights. The document must clearly specify what is granted.
Why choose a pack instead of a single contract?
A pack includes several complementary templates around the same profession or project. It is useful when collaboration may evolve or require multiple documents.
Are the templates customizable?
Yes. The available formats are indicated on each sheet. Word versions allow for adjustments to sections, amounts, duration, territories, and conditions.
Are my answers recorded?
No. The quiz operates directly in your browser and does not send your answers to MusiLaw.
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