an amount paid by a record label or publisher to an artist on signing (usually) a contract with them. The advances are given in order to pay recording costs and to give the artist money to live on until royalties start flooding (hopefully) in. However it is important to remember that the advances are recoupable from royalties before the artist star [..]

Association of Independent Music Limited.

the party acquiring a right from a party (assignor).

a transfer of ownership of rights by the owner (assignor) to another party (assignee).

the party who owns a right and is transferring (assigning) it to another party (assignee).

booking agents work with venues in order to book gigs for artists, some venues will be happy to work directly with artists however some will not and the artist will need to enlist a booking agent in order to reach these venues.

British Phonographic Institute.

an umbrella term that covers a number of distinct rights. Fundamentally it is the right that the author of a work has to prevent others from doing certain things with that particular work without consent.

a demo is simply a demonstrative (hence demo) recording of your music, it will tend to be 3-4 tracks and will in all likelihood not be of a commercially releasable standard. The purpose of the demo is simply to get industry (management / record label) interest in your music.

electronic press packages.