Attention Legal Practitioners and Commercial Organisations
These sample agreements are protected by the intellectual property rights of Arts Law and have been priced for artists and arts organisations who are not able to afford other legal services.
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Please Note: The following downloadable PDF Sample Contracts (with explanatory notes) are non-editable PDF files. You are advised to follow the purchasing directions and save the file to your computer for use as a template. As they are non-editable PDF files you will need to retype the agreement with your own amendments.
- Band Partnership Deed
A sample agreement that outlines the formalisation of a pre-existing band or performers wishing to join together to form a band. - Direct Licensing Guidelines (Public Performance and Transmission Rights)
These sample guidelines have been developed to assist small record companies and independent artists that are PPCA licensors to meet the requirement that they have direct licensing guidelines (policies). The guidelines deal only with direct licensing of public performance and transmission rights in a sound recording or music video. - Music Compilation Licence for a Community Project
A sample agreement that outlines the arrangement between a community or a non-profit organisation and an unsigned artist in which the artist records songs for the first time for inclusion on a compilation album. - Music Studio Recording Agreement for Unsigned Artists
A sample agreement to be used when an unsigned artist is negotiating a booking with a recording studio. It can be used as a starting point for drafting an agreement or as a checklist to compare to the terms offered by the studio.