Notes

Distribution: people responsible for advertising and marketing to make the people aware of the music

A&R: the people in a record label who are paid to find new artists

Royalties: everytime someone's music is played on the radio or on tv or used in a film or generally to the public's ear, the artists get commission (royalties)

major record label: a huge company that own artists and can be vertically or horizontally integrated, can own tv shows and nightclubs and films to advertise their music : SONY

subsidiary label: sometimes start of as an independent record label and when they get good a major record label could become interested and buy the company- meaning that they are still their own record label but have the backing of the major record label- such as SYCO which is owned by SONY

independent label: operate independently without funding from outside businesses, give their artists creative freedom- such as Ministry of Sound

peer to peer: sharing of music between people of similar ages and similar interests.

sampling: when someone uses an extract of someone else's music and embeds it into their own legally.

copyright: someone stealing something without the owner's permission and naming it as their own.