Anyone who has traveled the underground metro system of New York City is familiar with NYC subway performers. If you’re a band, songwriter, or solo performer, you (yes you!) can set up shop in a busy subway station and perform for thousands! This article serves as a guide to performing in public in New York City.

It’s one of the most common questions anyone is asked when meeting for the first time. What do you do? For musicians and songwriters, it may not be such a clear-cut answer. In this open question to our readers, I ask how do you answer the question: what do you do?

The next step in the series on making money with production music libraries is copyrighting your compositions. Securing your work with proper music copyrights is an important part of building your music for picture catalog. This article will offer a simple explanation of music copyrights, and show you how to register your copyright.

During this week, when all we hear about are actual pirates being hunted down on the high seas, I also came across an interesting multi-blog conversation around the long-time debate over music piracy. It originates over at musicianwages.com, where they posted this – possibly fictional – but interesting letter from a mother who’s son claims music piracy is “no big deal”.