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	<title>MusicBootCamp.com</title>
	<link>http://musicbootcamp.com</link>
	<description>YOUR BASECAMP FOR EVERY FREAKIN' THING IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!</description>
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		<title>Royalties for Public Performance of Your Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Performance rights organizations like BMI, ASCAP and SESAC all perform a similar task but in slightly different ways. Essentially, they all perform the duty of collecting royalties for non-dramatic performances of intellectual property. In simpler terms, they collect the income from radio stations, TV stations, programming companies, Internet marketers and any other entity where music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/royalties-ascap-bmi-sesac-socan/</link>
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		<title>Cover Songs (Harry Fox Licensing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IMPORTANT:  We are NOT the Harry Fox Agency. We discuss it here for your benefit. Please do not contact MusicBootCamp.com about Harry Fox issues. You may contact Harry Fox directly by following the links below if you have questions about performing someone else&#8217;s copyrighted material. We urge you to read the information below so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/cover-songs-harry-fox/</link>
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		<title>The Recording Academy Membership (GRAMMYs)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard of the Grammy Awards by now, you should probably consider another hobby or career. That said, the award show is probably the sum total of what many of us know about The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammy Awards. &#8220;Why should I care?&#8221; one might ask when pondering the glitz, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/grammy-membership-recording-academy/</link>
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		<title>Tracking Radio Airplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) is the world-leading provider of off-the-air music recognition for the record and radio industries. Employing pattern recognition technology, BDS identifies songs played on over 1100 radio stations in the US and Canada in real-time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Radio stations use BDS Radio to program their stations, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/track-airplay/</link>
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		<title>Musician Unions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the heck do unions have to do with music you ask? Potentially a lot. They can help session players find work and negotiate much better rates for those sessions. Unions offer collective bargaining power that gives individual musicians much more leverage and strength in numbers. The AFM, for example, offers the following: industry audition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/musicians-unions/</link>
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		<title>Free Rhyming Tools and Dictionaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhyming Dictionaries:
We&#8217;ve found some really interesting free tools for helping with your rhyming and poetry needs. If you learn how to harness their true power, inputting creative terms to yield fine-tuned results, you&#8217;ll never have to spend money on software that does the same thing. Using the following resources in tandem, you can find a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/free-rhyming-tools-and-dictionaries/</link>
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		<title>Free Music Samples and Loops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following links will open doors to a wealth of loops, drum hits, acoustic, electric and just plain weird audio samples. Most are available in WAV format, but many are made available as MP3s and other formats. MusicBootCamp.com is not affiliated with these sites and accepts no liability for use of their content whatsoever. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/drum-samples-and-music-loops/</link>
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		<title>Trademark Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trademark searches are essential for all musicians. It&#8217;s probably the first thing you should do before you even begin to record your project or play live shows. Imagine pumping all kinds of effort into your music, your CDs, and your promotion only to find out that someone else thought of (or at least legally owned) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/free-trademark-searches/</link>
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		<title>Copyright Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Copyright registration establishes the legal owner and/or publisher of intellectual property for works such as musical compositions or the lyrics for a song. In music, two registration forms are the most common. The PA Form and the SR Form.
PA Forms are used to copyright the composition itself, while SR Forms are intended to protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/copyright-forms-sr-pa-tx/</link>
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		<title>Barcodes and the UCC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UCC stands for Uniform Code Council, the organization responsible for the distribution and management of standardized UPC symbols (barcodes) worldwide. Use of barcodes is vital to the distribution of recordings on a local, national and international scale. Barcodes are used to track inventory, identify legitimate record labels, and play an essential role in data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicbootcamp.com/barcodes-and-ucc/</link>
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