Signing with twoOHsix Music LLC as as Representative
When you sign with twoOHsix Music LLC as a Representative of Artists, we require a comprehensive artist agreement between you and your artists. Minimum requirements for this agreement include, but honestly shouldn’t be limited to:
A Rights and Warranties section that should touch on:
The extent of your artist’s right to exploit their work, name, likeness, etc.
The extent of your artist’s right to grant Your Company those exploitation rights
The extent of those extended exploitation rights
And the extent of Your Company's right to further extend exploitation rights to twoOHsix Music
Long story short (and we mean quite long, because the legal jargon necessary to cover these bases is far more expansive than what we're about to say): All of those rights need to be all-encompassing; there should be no part of the artist's work (both on the composition and master side), name, likeness, etc. over which the artist doesn’t have the right to complete control (in non-exclusive scenarios), and there should be no limitations to the artist's ability to grant those rights to Your Company and for Your Company to subsequently grant those rights to twoOHsix Music LLC.
Co-creator ownership disagreements, uncleared samples, and anything else that could cause copyright infringement needs to be non-existent.
In twoOHsix Music LLC’s agreement we also require the signing party to agree:
That the works may be edited by the end user, provided that any such changes shall not alter the fundamental character of the Work or portion of the Work being used.
That “Moral Rights” must be waived.
We take great care not to involve ourselves with any nefarious or extremely profane content, and would certainly contact our artists/representatives of artists if any such opportunity OR an exclusive opportunity were to arise before executing an agreement, but for all other content, we do not contact our artists to receive approval for licenses, so Your Company would need to also have a clause that says Your Company doesn’t need the artist's approval beyond the initial agreement to license a work to non-exclusive opportunities.
That termination of the agreement can only take place:
Upon the end of the Initial Term or Optional Periods provided we're notified no less than 30 days before the end of the Initial Term or Optional Period, or
If there is a breach of contract that doesn’t get cured within 30 days of the breaching party being notified.
So you’ll want to make sure you have some similar verbiage in your agreement as well.
Your Company vs. Company Owner / Company Employee:
The artist agreement you have between Your Company and your artists should be between Your Company and the artists, not a Company Employee or Company Owner and the artists.