The Center For Music and Arts Entrepuenership

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, discusses how her careers in music and in artist management led her to become an entertainment lawyer.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, describes how she made the transition from musician and manager to lawyer, what its like to start a new career in the music industry, and what kinds of clients she deals with.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, discusses the new types of deals and negotiation paths that are open to artists in the wake of the collapse of the music industry in 2000-2006, and how its changing what opportunities are available to new or emerging artists.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, offers advice to young independent artists on how to build the foundations of a long career, and on why a lawyer can be the most important person in their lives.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, explains what Sound Exchange is, and how that organization handles payment to artists of public performance royalties generated by digital play (streaming, webcasts, internet radio). She also compares this situation, created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1995, to how terrestrial radio operates, and to the public performance royalty structures in place in the rest of the developed world.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, discusses various ways in which the law and industry custom conspire to stiff artists out of money that is, in theory, theirs. She discusses in specific how Sound Exchange diverts some royalties away from artists, and how hiring a producer (or producers) to work your record can get expensive fast.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, discusses why developing artists should be thrilled to have people trading their music for free on the internet, even if its technically piracy.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, reveals what aspects of a record deal are worth fighting for, and how to tell when your relationship with your label is about to hit the skids.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, discusses management contracts when theyre necessary, when theyre not, and when, if ever, they should end.

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, tells how she manages to fight for what she wants from record companies, but still remain friendly with the people she deals with there.