Law and Management

Setting up a company

- The various types of companies, their advantages & disadvantages

- The main obligations of a company & a manager

- Presentation and comparison of the various forms of companies and their legal status

- The steps to take in creating an enterprise: actions to take, deeds to draw up & documents to foresee

- Assistance in setting up the company and the creator’s partners

- The legal status of the managing director

- Basic notions and practical advice related to corporate law, commercial law and labor law

 

Finance and operations

- Knowing how to use and analyze figures

- Products, taxes and charges, results and cash flow

- Tools and the means for monitoring the books

- A « fun » day with figures and calculators to help better understand how income is shared, payments & the application, for instance, of tax allowances

- Learn how to forecast sales, taxes, charges and funding

- How to read and present the books and annual reports

- Some advice on how to monitor one’s accounts & be aware of the evolution of one’s business

 

The business plan

- What one must never forget before starting a business?

- Presenting a project

- Market studies

- Financial reporting

- The coherence between a projected budget and a market study

 

Labor law

- General overview of labor law & its main applicable principles

 

Human resources

- The job market

- Résumés / CV’s

- Salaries and wages

- How to find a job

 

Recruitment interviews

When the interview goes well it is often the best guarantee of success for being hired. To make it succeed, a few basic rules must be respected.  We simulate recruitment interviews for our students then analyze & assess them so that our students will be as well prepared as possible.

 

Publishing management

- How to create and manage publishing accounts

- The main formalities to go through

- A publisher’s obligations & the best practices of the profession

- Administrative relations with an author

- Advances and sums due

- Sub-publishing, co-publishing, catalog management, managing a third party, performing rights organizations

- How a performance rights society functions

- Contracts and agreements with and between performance rights societies

- Sources of revenue, relationships with users, commercial authorizations

- Copyright management software, filing and declaring works, documents and forms

- Rates and means of collecting, methods of dividing up and sharing the author’s income, collecting and payment deadlines, budgets & forecasts

- Statements: monitoring and analysis, movements of money from one country to another

 

Copyright & publishing

- The principles of copyright

- Authors’ Rights in countries which apply copyright law and notably the USA

- The conditions surrounding the commercialization and diffusion of a musical work

- Moral and patrimonial rights, duration of protection, depositing works

- The evolution of judicial precedents

- Presentation of collecting and performing rights organizations: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, The Harry Fox Agency, and the Copyright Office

- The collecting & management of copyright revenue in the United States: the financial conditions for the use of protected works generally used publishing agreements, standard practices and inter-professional agreements, international relations.

 

Law, the internet & telecommunications

- Authors’Rights & neighbouring Rights in the digital world

- Measures of protection

- Judicial precedents

- Protected rights and unprotected zones

- A Practical guide of what can be done

 

Purchasing Management

- The buying schedule, the buying budget and forecasting

- Finding and selecting suppliers

- Comparing & selecting new suppliers

- How to negotiate in purchasing

 

Practical management

- Estimates, invoicing, terms of sale

 

Foundations, sponsoring & patronage

- Establishing a partnership between an artist, a brand and/or a company

- Contractual relations between partners

- Actions which enhance the value of a brand

- Definitions, principles and rules concerning partnerships, patronage, sponsoring and endorsements

- The various kinds of partnerships

- Contractual relations

- Assessing results

- Partnership files and dossiers 

- Participating in Special events

 

The company’s partners

- Lawyers, bankers, insurers, certified public accountants: an overview of the jobs & how they function

- Learn how to identify the right partners.