Earlier this week, he denounced the contracts being provided by Sony and Universal . The deals not bad what is that based on? Negrito asks. Found online, don't shoot the messenger. Artists like Kanye feel that they are being cheated. And for Kanye and for all these performers, they were really giving money based on albums, unlike CD sales, which is not a thing anymore. So, you know, theres a lot in contract language thats really just generic legaleese the same kinds of things you see in other documents. We were lucky because we were careful. You can imagine the anxiety the in-house counsel have, right? West also made his feelings towards the label clear in 2020, when he tweeted images of his record contract, noting he felt he was treated unfairly. And thats why the color coding comes in. He dumped them all on Twitter. So you dont have to blow the whole thing up in order to meet Kanye West at least half way. The language looks like something you might find, you know, 50, 100 years ago. His. I wrote a book. Musician Kanye West changed all that when he went to Twitter to complain about his many contracts with the recording industry. Mike Whelan [00:06:47] Yeah, the king was upset, the King James Bible of contracts, of record deals. I want you to do me a quick favor. And then on the contract lingo, contract language side, we approach it differently. Just email us at Community@LawInsider.com. In the event that Kanye's sixth album, Cruel Summer,exceeds 2.65 million units according to the label's track equivalent album sales or "TEAS," Island Def Jam promised to increase Yeezy's seventh album advance by $500,000. So I apologize to both of you D.C. people watching. Right. Ross Guberman [00:03:18] And so Im the president of legal writing prose, so Ive been doing workshops and consulting on all different aspects of lawyer writing and judicial writing for a couple of decades now. Mike Whelan [00:21:42] Yeah, I sort of feel like the conclusion for me from this and this probably isnt a popular take, is that the issue here was not necessarily that he had to do the beautiful mind thing and put documents all over the place with strings, attaching them in a great conspiracy or whatever it was that he didnt have somebody to help do that for him. Donda 2, due for release on Tuesday (February 22), is the follow-up to Ye's Grammy-nominated Donda, which achieved one of the biggest ever first weeks for an album on both Spotify and Apple Music when it was released in August last year.. Kanye West's history of inflammatory statements were met with consquences this week. Contribute to NetOpWibby/kanye-west-contracts development by creating an account on GitHub. This is the same deal your favorite artist signed, this is their label. What do you expect a young, naive artist to do? Mike Whelan [00:01:20] Pretty classy nightstand, Ross. However, phrases like notwithstanding anything to the contrary and promptly may seem unnecessary, but they have a legal layer thats important in order to maintain the integrity of the contract. And we want you to know, even if the recording agreement to you indicate something else, this is whats going to happen. We were broke college kids right after the recession. A month ago, Kanye West had an emotional breakdown on Twitter. Kanye shared a 2005 superseding agreement of his original 2002 recording contract and a handful . Ross Guberman [00:07:15] So youre looking at a movement that started when those Capitol Hill hearings, but the tech companies were in the news. Although, there is a concern here. This is what were going after. Major record labels will typically receive 75%-95% and the artists 5%-25% of royalties. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Late last year, Kanye West took to Twitter to vent his frustration about complicated contract language. Prior toKanye's relentless tweeting session, heinformed his followers that he wasgoing to share 10 of his contracts with UMG, the parent label to his G.O.O.D. Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Kanye West has been sued for breach of contract in Florida for allegedly failing to pay for a rental space he wanted to use as a recording studio. "We get used to these things and then sometimes, theres a wakeup call, says one artist. The way that Gruberman has identified these sections is by using his tool called BriefCatch. Normally, its sort of reversed. . Based on the agreement,Universal Music Group gave Kanye a $3.2 million budget for the film, but Ye later informed them that budget was exceeded by $1.5 million. Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer. For example, LinkedIn has made some effort to provide easy-to-understand language. Its all made from events. Im seeing a lot of these highlights. Kanye West Tweets About His '10' Recording Contracts: 'I Need Every Lawyer in the World to Look at These' In his latest string of tweets about his recording deals Wednesday (Sept. 16),. Mike Whelan [00:22:29] he did not listen. I AM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND UNIVERSAL WONT TELL ME WHAT MY MASTERS COST BECAUSE THEY KNOW I CAN AFFORD THEM BLACK MASTERS MATTER.". So so as I play this in the background, tell me about some of the phrases that youre seeing in this that are just driving you nuts. Was the pissing on the Grammy to much? Well see you there. Over the course of dozens of tweets, West. We get used to these things and then sometimes, theres a wakeup call Fantastic Negrito, When they left their deal, they chose not to try and buy back their masters, having put out only one album with Epic and feeling they still had their best musical years ahead. Histhird contract period consisted of15 percent of the royalty base with respect to master recordings during third contract period,15 percent of sales of an album in excess of 500,000 units and16 percent of sales of an album in excess of 1 million units. Lets rewrite the deals to be understandable from first rate. As far as the actual deal goes, Kanyes isnt particularly bad: Music lawyerswho spoke with Rolling Stone call Wests deal standard for an artist at his level. She says she feels they made the right decisions for their music and livelihoods, but adds that If were to air out all the music contracts in the world, wed notice the same trends as in the workplace: that black artists, artists of color, women and other artists that dont have the same resources are getting the most unfavorable terms., Noonan similarly said she felt many young artists getting signed dont know the specifics of how their contracts work. Ye went from $6.6 billion to maybe $400 million. Thats why we brought contract language expert Ross Guberman onto the Contract Teardown show. . I will never work for a major record label again, Anokute says. Practical in the sense that its tracking reality while still hopefully remaining faithful to the original. Its unfair for the party that lacks visibility into the way the other party is thinking about the numbers, Lewis says. Contract #1 [PDF] Contact #2 [PDF] Contract #3 [PDF] Contract #4 [PDF] Contract #5 [PDF] Contract #6 [PDF] Contract #7 [PDF] Contract #8 [PDF] Contract #9 New Recording and Publishing Deal Guidelines [ PDF] Well, what we said the provision means is not what it means, but again, you need to know. All Rights reserved. Youve been dealing with this for a while. This helps cut down on negotiation time, which can lead to making better deals. Well make sure you get a deal as well. Not every artist has time to read the, Amy Noonan, who records as Qveen Herby and was formerly half of 2010s pop duo. There are no reviews yet. Mike Whelan [00:03:50] I realized after I got dressed to have our conversation that Im wearing the shirt that apparently everyone in D.C. wears. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. If you are interested in being a guest on Contract Teardown, please email us at community@lawinsider.com. Again back to dependents. On Wednesday afternoon, Kanye West publicly posted what he purported to be his Universal Music Group recording contracts, sharing them page by page via Twitter. Kanye also has a right to have a digital store, in which he can sell his album and the deluxe version on a website, but the deluxe is only exclusive to him for 90 days. Thats probably more than enough. You take expenses out and then people are sharing whats left. So lets tear it down. Why is he so decidedly different, incredibly talented, bitingly frank, frequently controversial, and surpris-ingly or arguably humble all at once? This method perhaps isnt as friendly to consumers as LinkedIns method, but its close enough to the source material and still understandable. He tweeted them so I made PDFs. Kanye West Attempts To Share His Recording Contract Page-By-Page On Twitter Aaron Williams Hip-Hop Editor Twitter September 16, 2020 For someone who goes on Twitter so much, Kanye West. Thus,50 percent of these costs incurred by Roc-A-Fella are considered advances, but the label could notrecoup more than $40,000 for each album relevant to these costs: creation, hosting, maintenance of artists website, securing, registering and/or protecting artist domain names, creation of ECD materials, independent promotion, independent marketing and independent publicity, television, movie or radio campaigns. Well see you guys next time. Mike Whelan [00:19:16] Well, and on that, I, I sort of want to get to principles, to things that lawyers can learn from this example, which is really the purpose of this show. Rewrite deals to be understandable from FIRST READ. Its not always clear whats what. So the rest, you know, if its not a one of those categories, its either an industry term of art or just normal English talking about finance or recording. Whats the best way to get in touch with you to learn these skills? That was pretty awesome. Somethings got a hold your drink place. Uploaded by How can you rewrite a contract to be understandable without losing the original intent? You need a business manager to read how you did? He released his two Grammy-winning albums independently more than 20 years later, and he hasnt inquired about the recoupment on his first record in years. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Where you calling from? Ross Guberman [00:16:40] Yeah, you really hit the nail on the head. West made about a 100 posts and shared screenshots of pages from his recording contract. One common grievance: Many aspects of record deals do not reflect how the business has dramatically changed over the past decade. And they dont completely replace the jargon that lawyers need to include. Theyll follow their attorneys recommendation. Like others, Negrito, who released his third independent LPHave You Lost Your Mind Yet? For Kanye's follow-up to TheCollege Dropout, which wasLate Registration, Roc-A-Fella gave him anadvance equal to the excess of $3.5 million over recording costs. Ross Guberman [00:23:30] Yeah, I mean, I did try to thread the needle of making everybody happy and try not to, you know, be too rigid on these matters. Artists must be dependent on no one but themselves to manage their catalog. This is the same deal your favorite artist signed, this is their label. What do you expect a young, naive artist to do? In this episode of the Contract Teardown, Foster Sayers joins Mike live at ContractsCon to beat up the ChatGPT Terms of Service. Maybe its about time I do that.. So notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Shall problem, you know, using Shal for both obligations and future events, words that seem familiar, like promptly that have a legal layer causes. The sense is that someone trying to pull a fast one on me. September 18, 2020. So, you know, my provision, these are coded blue brief catch picking up on a lot of those. Right. Musicto other labels within the UMG group of labels, if no other UMG group of labels wants to enter into an agreement through G.O.O.D. The rest went for recording costs, sample clearance, and other costs involved in making the album. Some of the phrases are unnecessarily complicated. Portals. So youre seeing some attempt by LinkedIn. Welcome to Law Insiders Contract Teardown Show, where we bring smart friends like Ross Guberman over here to break down some contracts. In this episode of the Contract Teardown show, guest Diana Isyanova shares three possible approaches. So come join us right now. See everything we've learned from his record label deals below. Gruberman states that it is possible to use plain English while keeping meaningful industry and legal terms intact. In the weeks following its release, Donda surpassed a billion streams on Spotify globally. In fact, according to one of his recent Instagram posts, the Three Stripes offered to buy Ye out of his contract for $1 billion. It was pretty awesome because it was specifically about contracts. What is this document? Almost no artists recoup so the system obviously doesnt work, but its tempting. But its all too new to know whether in any kind of dispute that language would actually be entered as evidence. The deal was huge, man, they give you money to live off of. Kanye West signed his co-publishing contract with music publisher EMIwho is now owned by Sony/ATVin 2003, before the completion and release of his 2004 debut album, The College Dropout. Artists re-signing these stops. West is also no longer with record label Def Jam a Universal Music Group subsidiaryas he has fulfilled his contract, Forbes reported Thursday, and his own label, G.O.O.D. The dates of the files range from 2005 to 2014. Now we know where the funds will come from, so its its. They would pay Kanye back after the successful completion of the film, provided it was up to standards. Ross and I dig into Kanyes request for plain language drafting and whether its even realistic. Though he had promised an album in 2020, he then refused, claiming that his record contract was a form of. Adidas said on Tuesday that it was cutting ties with Kanye West, ending what may have been the most significant corporate fashion partnership of the rapper and . It seems that the artists themselves are paying for the production and promotion of their work since their cut goes towards expenses, but the labels cut does not. If Island Def Jam Music Group were to pass on an artist,Getting Out Our Dreams Inc., the acronym for Kanye's G.O.O.D. (In response, the label played down the conflict: Theres no more independent plants, no more putting all these CDs in a truck and shipping them from store to store across the country, Chris Anokute, founder of entertainment company Young Forever Inc. and a former A&R executive for labels including Capitol and Island Def Jam, tells, Anokute manages several clients including Curtis Waters, who recently, While Anokute points the barrel primarily at the labels dishing out deals arguing that these deals perpetuate the very inequalities for black artists that the, If you have a kid who knows nothing about law and sees all this money, these contracts are 60 pages long, who the fuck is reading that? Anokute says. Kanye West Says He Won't Release New Music Until Freed From Sony and Universal Contracts: Declaring himself "the new Moses" while demanding apologies from Drake and J. Cole. Ross Guberman [00:08:11] Yeah, this is a big issue. Some are asking what took so long. I guess my question is, could Kanye read this, do you think? Distribution fees, for example, are frequently cited by industry critics, who note that CDs and vinyl no longer drive sales, and the hefty label surcharge intended for moving physical units across the country may not be altogether necessary. Found online, don't shoot the messenger. (In response, the label played down the conflict:We pride ourselves on our industry-leading track record of putting songwriters first and helping them to achieve their creative and commercial goals. And then what happens is, as you can see from his other related tweets, the sense is not just, well, I dont understand the contract. So heres an amendment. I do a lot of these kind of microlevel edits that people seem to like. You know, its a little some people would say, well, you dont want to mess around with indemnification, but in this case, it seems close enough to the original to be faithful legally while still being understandable. The split can be 80/20 in the artists favor. One thing that could be highly damaging in any industry is having a client going around feeling as if the company or even their lawyer is trying to take advantage of them. Getting Out Our Dreams, LLC c/o Carroll, Guido & This is a situation were in. GOOD Music (stylized as G.O.O.D. The label additionally had the right to release one Greatest Hits album. How that how how that would play out. Tell me how this is more understandable again for someone, not a 12 year old, but someone like Kanye in the decision making phase. Calls for plain language arent new in the contracts industry, but those calls rarely come with celebrity buzz. Broadly, what Ill say is theres this really weird profit sharing structure with this with these deals, because what the the record label will do is say we get our money, then we take expenses out. Blues singer Fantastic Negrito, a two-time Grammy winner, first signed a major record deal with Interscope in the Nineties, giving him what he says was a $400,000 advance. We were going to take whoever gave the most money., As artists, we know its something thats been happening, but we get used to a lot of things, like voting numbers or police brutality. When your term ends, download it all. Report: Kanyes Anti-Semitic Rhetoric Led to Assaults, Vandalism, If you have a kid who knows nothing about law and sees all this money, these contracts are 60 pages long, who the fuck is reading that? longtime A&R exec Chris Anokute, Anokute manages several clients including Curtis Waters, who recently went viral through his TikTok hit Stunnin. While Waters was courted by many major labels,at Anokutes counsel, he signed a shorter-term 60-40 profit-split deal with BMG. They are long. Whats the language that stands out to you as particularly harmful to the understanding of the parties, which is really what a contract is supposed to do, right? It would also give Adele the largest record deal for a British musician by surpassing . But if Kanye West 's statements last year about slavery being a choice were out of bounds, he's taking more of a Prince-like tactic in his ongoing efforts to extract himself from his record. . Mike Whelan [00:03:02] Thats right. Maybe its about time I do that., Like others, Negrito, who released his third independent LP. Looking back, I've thought many times about what makes Kanye Kanye. Its its unfortunately the the words and phrases that are operative to. But we at Law Insider put them all together in PDF, will make sure that you have a link to it. And the reason that it applies to us is this awesome tweet that all the lawyers got excited about, where he says the first thing that changes about record deals is actually lawyers. Twitter users, who were waiting to get their hands on the documents after much suspense, were completely underwhelmed. Absolutely not. Thats the name of my new band. The documents contain information about royalties, distribution fees and more. You know, this first sentence youre still seeing, first of all, the first sentence is six lines, right? As usual, West's behavior has spurred an onslaught of speculation regarding a possible return to a business relationship with Nike. During his rant, Kanye declared that he would move the entire music industry into the 21st century, and he means to do this using clear and discernable language. Cruel Summer/Hawaii costs shall befully cross-collateralized with Kanye's main royalties account. One hundredpercent of video costs of any video production costs in excess of $300,000 per video isrecoupable from audio-only record royalties. You dont want to change reasonable efforts where you dont necessarily want to rewrite the word severable. Right. Mike Whelan [00:17:41] an interpretive sca band and Im going to have to look for the domain name. NO MORE. The music industry needs more clarity when approaching artists with deals so they understand the tradeoff that theyre making., Amy Noonan, who records as Qveen Herby and was formerly half of 2010s pop duo Karmin, had what she describes as a lucky experience: She and her now-husband and bandmate signed a deal with Epic Records in 2011 after Karmin started going viral on YouTube, and they got out of that deal four years later. this summer, doesnt point the finger at any one entity or group for the nature of these deals. The lawyers in this industry who are used to the status quo are going to say its worth it, but if I make a deal with you and go to lunch and say you pay 70 [percent], I dont think youll say its fair. Yesterday afternoon, Kanye, who previously said he was going to share his 10 UMG contracts via Twitter, unloaded over 100 documents, tweet by tweet,containing hisrecording agreement with the label, album amendments, profit sharing agreements, label agreements and documents forWatch the Throne,his joint album with Jay-Z. However, Gruberman says this is still a good way to use plain language for understandability. Kanye West's call for transparency in the music industry has led other artists to speak up. Uploaded for archival purposes. But they were reluctant to strike a deal with the young producer/rapper. I have a lot of free articles and a lot of these before and after is also on Twitter. Last modified on Thu 13 Jan 2022 14.04 EST. Mike Whelan [00:04:08] wearing the shirt. THE HOST:Mike Whelan is the author of Lawyer Forward: Finding Your Place in the Future of Law and host of the Lawyer Forward community. According to West's court papers, he's been "laboring" for EMI since 2003, when during the recording of College Dropout he signed a "lopsided" contract with the music publisher. Is this different than the LinkedIn attempt? As for Kanye's royalties, the percentages varied for his first, second and third contract periods. However, only 50 percent of video costscan berecouped from audio-only record royalties. Were were coloring pictures for you so you understand whats happening here? Kanye Wests Record Deal Is Standard. Were lucky we were told the truth in so many ways.. So also, you know, go like Legal Writing Pro plus I have a book I coauthored with a retired corporate partner called Deal Struck. And theyre advised accordingly by an attorney at law whos telling them to sign this contract, and they say this contract is standard. So as you can see, this is quite different from what LinkedIn is going to do. You want to get in and get as much as you can is what we were told. Theyre not to be I mean, this is classic, completely unnecessary, archaic language you see in a lot of commercial agreements. Come join my friends. A lawyers role is to improve deals, not charge for contracts we cannot understand or track. Yet even though Kanyes deal may not make him the ideal poster child for a conversation on the fairness of recording contracts, hes sparked a high level of discussion among artists and music-business insiders on the nature of record deals and long-held standards. Rap superstar Kanye West is leading a revolt against . So we know recouped doesnt mean the same thing. At no point was Kanye allowed to object to a track being on the record if it achievedTop 100 chart success on any national trade publication at any time prior to when the Greatest Hits album was released. Youre going to sign the amendment. And thats, you know, damaging conclusion from many perspectives. The equity is the Artists. Youll get access to more content like this. "Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. See's Kanye West's Record Contract Tweets, revealing the intricate details of his record label contract. Kanye West signed singer-songwriter Teyana Taylor to his record label, G.O.O.D Music, in 2012 while she was in the midst of production on his album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . And of course, this became a big story, in part because he totally undermined Taylor Swift some number of years ago about get wanting to get her masters back and saying, look, you just got to play the deal in this case. not charge for contracts we cannot understand or track. Theyll follow their attorneys recommendation. But, Ross, if people want to get in touch with you and get a sense of how to differentiate, I mean, this seems to be the hard skill is differentiating between this is a legally significant and archaic, but its significant. Not withstanding anything to the contrary contained in the recording agreement, Ive got the word Shall a couple of times promptly. Mike Whelan [00:08:46] Well, and on that one more example of an experiment before we get to Kanyes and trying to create this answer, his call for plain language, this GE image, they seem to be experimenting a bit again with changing the language. Join me and my friends. Whats your background? I mean, shoot, producers can take $15,000 to $20,000 a piece on each track. Ye said of the images: "This is what me Kanye West deal looks like . Wests contract could even be considered favorable among superstar contracts, with Universal heavily investing in Wests works, entertainment attorney Christiane Kinney says. We have been engaged in an ongoing dialogue with Hit-Boy and all the concerned parties to address his concerns and will continue to do so until a reasonable solution is achieved.). Roc-A-Fella was to approve any "recording elements,"which are listed as: selection of individual producer(s), selection of compositions to be recorded, specification of accompaniment, arrangement and copying services, selection of dates of recording and studios where recording is to take place. So those are those are the impediments. Yeezy, West's sneaker and apparel business with Adidas AG and Gap Inc., is valued at $3.2 billion to $4.7 billion by UBS Group AG, according to a private document reviewed by Bloomberg. Advances are just loans!! Right. Should the labels be able to make a profit off of this? The contracts show Kanye received a $2.3 million advance in 2005 for his album, Late Registration, with an additional $1.2 million as a recording budget.For . ET. Ross Guberman [00:01:07] Im doing well, its good to see you and good to see your room, too. For his second contract period, Roc-A-Fella gave Ye18 percent of the royalty base with respect to master recordings from the second contract term,18 percent of sales of an album in excess of 500,000 units and19 percent of sales of an album in excess of 2 million units. Thats not the game here, Noonan recalls as the mindset when negotiating contracts. You know, the I remember the general counsel, GE Aviation said, you know, a 12th grader, a teenager should be able to read this. For Kanye, his 15% royalty rate on wholesale for each sneaker sold has netted him roughly $150 million pre-tax annually. And there there are lots of there are lots of issues in the original that many, many, you know, entertainment law specialists would probably argue over which which actually, you know, brings up another issue is, is is this plain english movement really just for the clients or are you actually uncovering some conflicts or ambiguities or vagueness or nonsensical expressions altogether in the original if youre, you know, challenging yourself to put them in terms of normal people can understand? So what I what I what I did here is just pull pull one of the key provisions on the substantive side from this profit sharing agreement so we could try to figure out again whats possible for for the Kanye West of the world. The first is this one from LinkedIn. He's also called for Drake, Bono, Paul McCartney,. During his rant, Kanye declared that he would move the entire music industry into the 21st century, and he means to do this using clear and discernable language. So from a record label standpoint at the moment, the split Kanye has above is in many cases flipped. Why are artists paying a 20 percent distribution fee off the top?, Related Addeddate 2020-09-21 23:04:27 Identifier KanyeWestContracts Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0jt91382 Ocr It is not uncommon for a label to take their cut, then take out expenses, and then pay the artist. Will we be seeing a President Kanye? Those are four ways to keep the conversation going. Right. These are the documents that were talking about. Soundtrack: The Great Gatsby. Now, with a click of a finger, your music goes wide to 7 billion people if you want it to. NO other business in the world takes a look at the business, buys shares, starts to profit when it profits. We were broke college kids right after the recession. From that money, $4 million was allocated to recording costs. Reality while still hopefully remaining faithful to the original intent deal your favorite artist,... 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