AFM Recording Agreement Primer

The following brief primer is intended to provide a basic overview of three current AFM Recording Agreements and assist you in determining how, when and under what circumstances you might use them.

Joint Venture Recording Report

The Joint Venture Recording Report was specifically developed to address the large body of self-produced recordings made by AFM Indie artists. In turn; GoPro Tunes was developed primarily to benefit those member artists. As such; we anticipate that the majority of the music available on the GoPro Tunes website will have been produced in this manner.

The Joint Venture Recording Report may be used for new or previously recorded content. The Report is extremely easy to complete and protects the best interests of the participating member musicians. Here’s how to complete and submit the Report:

  1. Download and print the Joint Venture Agreement Form.
  2. Complete only those sections relating to the musicians who participated in the recording. Note: The "Percentage of Ownership" is the division of ownership as agreed to by the participating AFM members. The summed total will be 100%.
  3. Ensure that all participating AFM members sign the Report in the appropriate areas.
  4. Send or deliver (in person) the Report to your AFM Local and have an Officer complete the upper section of the Report.
  5. Have sufficient copies of the fully completed Report made in order to distribute a copy to each participating musician. The Local is to retain the original fully completed Report.
  6. Upload a scanned copy of the fully completed Report via the on-line GoPro Tunes contract interface.

Limited Pressing Agreement

To date; thousands of tracks have been produced under this Agreement and we would welcome any of them as selections available on GoPro Tunes. Music produced under the terms of the Limited Pressing Agreement must be made available for sale on GoPro Tunes by the individual/entity owning or controlling the right to commercially exploit the recording(s) produced under this Agreement. If you are not the above mentioned individual/entity but participated in a recording session under this Agreement and wish to have the recording(s) made available for sale on GoPro Tunes, please encourage the appropriate individual/entity to contact us.

Download the Limited Pressing Agreement: U.S. | Canada

Sound Recording Labor Agreement (SRLA)

To date; hundreds of thousands of tracks have been produced under this Agreement and we would welcome any of them as selections available on GoPro Tunes.

Music produced under the terms of the SRLA must be made available for sale on GoPro Tunes by the individual/entity owning or controlling the right to commercially exploit the recording(s) produced under this Agreement. If you are not the above mentioned individual/entity but participated in a recording session under this Agreement and wish to have the recording(s) made available for sale on GoPro Tunes, please encourage the appropriate individual/entity to contact us. More info on the SRLA is available here.

Download the Sound Recording Labor Agreement
Single Project Short Forms: U.S. | Canada

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