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A short run of shows is a small business with a start and an end date. This guide sets out a simple budget worksheet: fixed costs, per-show costs, per-day costs, income lines and a contingency. Mileage and record-keeping points come from the IRS, read on 24 Oct 2026; everything else is a method, not a fact claim.
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Your artist or band name starts collecting trademark rights the day you use it in public, but those rights are local and hard to prove. Here is how to check a name, when registration earns its fee, what the US filing costs per class, and how to extend it abroad.
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A band that earns money together is often a business partnership in law, whether or not anyone signed anything, and the default rules may not be the ones you would choose. Here is what a band agreement should cover, using the UK Partnership Act 1890 as a worked example of what happens when you write nothing down.
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What Patreon, Bandcamp artist subscriptions and Kickstarter actually take from fan money, how each one bills and pays, and how to pick between a monthly membership and a one-off campaign, all checked against the platforms' own help pages on 24 Oct 2026.
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Music money arrives in small pieces from many places, months after the play that earned it. Here is a simple system for saving royalty statements, split agreements, invoices and receipts, what two tax authorities say about how long to keep records, and why your own ledger matters more than any dashboard.
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