Custom Contract Drafting
Your lawyer builds the agreements you need from scratch, written for your specific situation rather than a generic online template.
What This Covers
Custom contract drafting is the paper behind every deal you make as an independent artist — the producer who made your beat, the feature on your hook, the co-writers in the room, the engineer who shaped your sound, the sample you built on, and the artists you sign to your own label. It isn’t about distrust; it’s writing down what everybody already agreed to while everybody’s still in a good mood. A generic template off the internet doesn’t know your producer kept his publishing, that your feature wants approval over the visual, or that your beat was leased and not bought — and those gaps are exactly where fights live.
Your lawyer builds the agreement around your real facts. Your lawyer names the fee, the points, and the publishing split in a producer deal and sets exactly when the master transfers to you. Your lawyer writes credit, splits, and approval rights into a feature agreement so a sync can’t die waiting on a signature, adds backup assignment language to a work-for-hire buyout so the rights actually move, and drafts the recording agreement when you start signing other artists.
Why It Matters to You
The most expensive contract is the one you never had. A handshake feels like loyalty in the moment, but eighteen months later — when the royalties finally land — it can feel like a trap, because memory is generous to whoever’s telling the story. Without clean paper, a producer can resurface claiming he was never paid, an uncleared sample can block your release or demand a cut after the fact, and an engineer who never signed can leave an open question over your master right when a music supervisor asks you to prove it’s clear.
Get it right and you own what you paid for, you can license your record to film and brands without chasing a signature, and the deal you offer another artist is one you can both be proud of. It’s far cheaper to paper a deal the day you make the song than to untangle it once the record is winning.
The Services We Offer
The Custom Contract Drafting services Done Deal Digital offers, performed by a licensed attorney you engage directly.
Producer Agreement
A contract that sets exactly what the producer gets paid, what royalty points and publishing they keep, and who owns the master.
Featured Artist / Collaboration Agreement
A contract for a guest verse or collab that locks in credit, splits, approvals, and how the song can be used.
Songwriter Split Sheet & Co-Writing Agreement
A signed document fixing each writer's percentage of the song so there's no fight when the royalties show up.
Work-for-Hire / Buyout Agreement
A contract where a beatmaker, engineer, or session player is paid a flat fee and assigns ownership cleanly (a buyout / work-for-hire assignment).
Session Musician & Engineer Agreements
Short contracts where hired players and engineers assign any rights, confirming no claim to the master or song after they're paid.
Recording Artist Agreement (for your label)
If you're signing other artists, your lawyer drafts the deal your small label uses to sign them.
Sample/Interpolation Use Agreement
A contract documenting permission and splits when you build a new song on top of someone else's existing work.
Beat License Agreement
Your lawyer drafts or reviews the lease and exclusive-license terms producers and artists use when beats change hands.
Prefer to learn it yourself first? Get the Custom Contract Drafting guide — $39 →
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