Canadians create music heard by audiences around the world – we work behind the scenes. Our team of experienced music lawyers work with you when music is being created; when music is being distributed, and when royalties are being paid.
At Edwards Creative Law, we have many years of experience working in the music industry, to protect and monetize your intellectual property, whether you’re an individual artist, or a company working with musicians or music events. Explore our music services or contact us today to discuss your music law needs.
Music is an aggregation of intellectual property rights of various creative collaborators and businesses. A single song may be subject to a variety of agreements. As an artist, musician, producer, beat maker, manager or music company, your focus is on creation, distribution and monetization of music. Leave the legal aspects to us.
Our Entertainment Lawyers are available to assist with all your music law requirements. We review and advise on music agreements you have received and prepare agreements you want your creative collaborators or clients to sign. Our team will also assist with your business structure, from setting up your corporation to making amendments as new partners join and others leave your professional team.
Not sure if we provide services for your creative sector? Ask us. We’d love to hear from you.
An agreement between a producer and an artist that sets out the artist’s rights, and the producer’s fees, royalties and role.
An agreement between a music manager and an artist, that sets out commission, duration of the relationship, scope of services and the sunset clause.
An agreement between a record label and an artist that deals with the distribution and marketing of the artist’s music - advances, marketing commitments, revenue models and options.
An agreement between a music publisher and a writer, under which the publisher administers or co-publishes existing and future compositions.
An agreement between a beatmaker and an artist, typically in hip hop, that sets out the upfront fee, royalty distribution, compositions splits, and control of the new composition and recording.
An agreement between a Film or TV producer or a music supervisor and the people who control the composition and recording for placement in a TV show, film, game or advertisement.
An agreement between a composer and a client, such as film and television producer, regarding the up front fee, SOCAN royalty splits, and scope of work for a score.
An agreement between artists when one artist is featuring the other, regarding composition splits, upfront fees, SoundExchange splits, and primary artist credits.
Not sure if we provide services for your creative sector? Ask us. We’d love to hear from you.
Edwards Creative Law represents individuals and organizations working in Canada’s creative industries.
We are committed to building quality relationships with our clients by providing valuable entertainment law services to meet the criteria of their creative project and to assist with its successful completion.
Meet some of the clients we partner with:
“Our team really enjoys working with Byron & ECL. It’s obvious that Byron cares about his clients, we were able to trust him right from the beginning. Byron helped us navigate our way out of a record label contract which has had a huge (positive) impact on our business.”
“Working with Byron and everyone at Edwards Creative Law have helped my music career immensely. I highly recommend them.”
“Excellent law firm that handled my songwriting catalogue contracts. Amazing service!”
We’d be delighted to hear from you
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