record label

A record label is a brand and/or a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Often, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks; coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos; conducts talent scouting and development of new artists ("artists and repertoire"or "A&R"); and maintains contracts with recording artists and their managers.

record label
Record Label Marketing, 2nd Edition
Record Label Marketing (Second Edition)
The American record label book
Record label marketing: How music companies brand and market artists in the digital era
ARLD : the American record label directory and dating guide, 1940-1959
Here Come the Regulars: How To Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget
Exploring Rock Music Influence Between and Among Indepedent and Major Record Label Bands
A change is gonna come : the future of copyright and the artist/record label relationship in the Music Industry
The Gorilla V the Worm ; Two of the City's Biggest Players Are at War over the Future of British Record Label EMI. and the 'Commerci...