A look at how the Salt‑N‑Pepa ruling puts artists’ termination rights at risk and why replacing “work for hire” clauses is essential.

The Nigerian Idol Season 3 contestant is in the middle of a contract dispute with 800 Records, issuing a claim that her contract has been repudiated. The record label however disputes her claims, ...

Ghanaian singer and songwriter, Ethel Esi Eshun, popularly known as Queen eShun, has urged upcoming artistes to take control of their music careers rather than signing on under record labels, ...

If Bozzio had been signed to a label as an artist, it would’ve been her responsibility as an independent contractor to obtain health insurance on her own or through membership in a union like ...

They may sound similar, but they are not the same thing. Knowing the difference can save you a lot of stress and, in extreme cases, a protracted lawsuit. To achieve this goal, these artists need to ...

NewJeans, an internationally successful K-pop girl group whose members’ careers have been stalled amid a contract dispute with their label, lost a court battle to terminate the contract with ADOR, a ...

A B.C. musician took it upon herself to engage in a legal fight against a record producer for thousands in a contract dispute ...

Record labels don’t want any more “Taylor’s Version” albums. After the massive success of Taylor Swift’s re-recorded albums, major record labels like Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group ...

When singer Dale Bozzio fell 40 feet from a room at a Holiday Inn in Downtown L.A. in 1976, breaking a kneecap, her elbows and her floating ribs and splitting open her head, she was not signed to a ...