How do artists navigate the music industry outside of the major label system?  This is a question that Clintons, one of the country’s leading music and entertainment specialist law firms, have found themselves being asked with increasing regularity in recent months, by artists and managers at all levels – be it a new artist with a few hundred committed followers or a household name with a global reach.  Tom Frederikse, Richard Hoare and Berkeley Edwards set out to distil their wide-ranging experience of dealing with many of the new routes to market into an approachable one-page roadmap which can be used by artists and managers alike.  This session sees the team set out this framework, and run through four case studies (using hypothetical illustrations from artists at varying stages of their careers) to explore some of the ways in which artists are now working outside of the major label system.