In this episode, we explore contracts and fees for a music composer with Rebecca Scully-Leek.
She talks about:
Social media links are:
website: http://www.rebeccascullyleekmusic.com
Instagram: rslmusic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebeccascullyleekmusic
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-scully-leek-music/
The AWFC: https://theawfc.com/user/rebecca-scully-leek/
For education and getting to know other working composers:
ASMAC - The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (Asmac.org)
SCL - The Society for Composers and Lyricists (https://thescl.com)
For protecting your intellectual property/art:
PRS for Music - performing rights: royalties, music copyrights and licensing (https://www.prsformusic.com) - It's good to license every bit of music you put out there so no one can copy/use it without your permission. This one is for those of us based in the UK. If you're based in the US, then your main performing rights organizations are ASCAP (https://www.ascap.com), BMI (https://www.bmi.com), and SESAC (https://www.sesac.com).
For help with contracts/deals/work agreements:
Ivors Academy (UK) - they also have great talks about issues facing composers today (https://ivorsacademy.com)
AWFC - The Alliance for Women Film Composers - (https://theawfc.com) branches in Los Angeles, London, and I'm opening up one in Muscat, Oman covering the Middle East coming soon in 2023. For more information on that, keep an eye on the AWFC website, or join their email list, and you could always visit my Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn feeds.
Rebecca Scully-Leek Music has been producing music for radio, theatre, and student films since 2019, but Rebecca has been studying and writing music since she was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, California. She studied music and double-majored in physics at the University of California at San Diego for her undergraduate degree, and then pursued graduate music study at King's College London. To pay the bills, she worked as a computer programmer for financial analysts and traders while in LA and then in London, but her heart was always in music. She met a handsome and dashing cavalry officer in a pub one day, married him, and now follows the drum of the British Army, and loves supporting her husband and the Army as a military spouse. She and her husband have two cheeky monkeys, one bonkers spaniel, and five singing chickens in Scotland near St Andrews.
Rebecca's experience working in the high-pressure arena of finance gives her a unique professional edge, while her adaptability to change, a requirement of living the Army life, makes her easy to work with. Delivering passionately created music, to spec and on time; is her aim.
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